New Intarsia-My Hero

[chelcass]

Wow!  They are both awesome.

[daliclimbs]

Great looking projects!

[jlatorre]

wow! very nice ,thanks for sharing

[smitty0312]

Fantastic job on both, nice work, thanks for sharing.

[Marcellarius]

amazing job, I still wonder how you dow it Al, great!!!

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Beautifully done.

Is the paw he's saluting with one piece with fingers sanded/sculpted in or three pieces?

The uniform looks like real cloth. Takes a real master to make wood flow like that, well done!

What did you use to get the ?wrinkles? Just below the shirt and on the right (his) sleeve?

I take it the pockets are raised by a shim? Have you ever used 1/8" cork as a riser? I see everyone using wood but I have lots of thin cork from some old corkboard's and was wondering about using that.

 

[Intarsia92]

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The saluting Paw is one piece and sanded to shape.

All wrinkles are sanded to shape using my Horizontal Pneumatic Drum Sander.

I used 3/16"scrap plywood as shims to raise the pockets.

I've used a lot of different materials for risers, but I've never tried using cork when making Intarsias, however, I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as you also edge glue the pieces.

[ChuckD]

Cork, that is a idea.  But I always seem to have scraps of thin plywood or wood around to use as the risers.  You can use more than one piece to "rise" the item you want up.  One of my favorite shims is the free siring sticks you get with paint.
If the shim is to be seen you use as close to the same material as what is above it.  Good Luck

[EIEIO]

I like the different wood colors to make up the camo. Nice work.