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General Category => Intarsia => Topic started by: Intarsia92 on August 31, 2012, 11:51:03 am

Title: French Flower Cart
Post by: Intarsia92 on August 31, 2012, 11:51:03 am
This is my latest Intarsia

I was given a small ?French Flower Cart? pin and asked to make a 20? X 24?  Intarsia similar to it, only add a palm tree someplace in the picture.   She choose the colors to match her d?cor.   
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Post by: crusty59 on August 31, 2012, 01:15:37 pm
That is amazing work! I wish I could do such detail
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Post by: TripleB on August 31, 2012, 01:25:18 pm
Al, The way you used the picture as a guide to come up with what you did is really impressive. And than to turn it into a shadow box...wow! Now you've got my brain spinning! Your work is just so clean!

As usual, Great job!

Bob
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Post by: TheMelster on August 31, 2012, 01:57:56 pm
I will have to mail you my pieces to be painted..... OMG the paint job is incredible. Thanx for making me GREEN with envy!
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Post by: bzeyher on August 31, 2012, 02:02:32 pm
That is just amazing. Great down to the last detail.
Thanks for sharing
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Post by: newfie on August 31, 2012, 02:08:12 pm
beautiful piece of work Al thanks for sharing
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Post by: rteubner on August 31, 2012, 02:20:01 pm
That is great! Awesome job!
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Post by: dgman on August 31, 2012, 02:57:10 pm
Truly amazing Al!
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Post by: Keefie on September 02, 2012, 05:27:47 pm
thats just awesome, lovely work
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Post by: jlatorre on September 02, 2012, 11:07:46 pm
!wow?,beautiful
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Post by: heiko rettberg on September 03, 2012, 01:58:46 am
Looks greate, very good job as well.
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Post by: Tomsunnu on September 03, 2012, 04:58:54 am
Very beautifully done :)
Mahendra
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Post by: Russ C on September 03, 2012, 09:33:46 am
Awesome job Al, I like it. Thanks for posting.  :)
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Post by: Tim2beupinAz on September 03, 2012, 01:33:49 pm
That is a amazing piece of work you have done.
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Post by: troy_curtis on September 05, 2012, 12:29:46 am
This is so fantastic. Love the colors and the way it just looks so good. Thanks for sharing this one.
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Post by: wombatie on September 09, 2012, 03:10:26 am
I saw a cart just like that when I was in Paris.  As usual a terrific job, well done.

Marg
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Post by: mainberg on September 16, 2012, 05:30:22 pm
Wonderful!
How do you hang on to the small pieces when sanding. Would think they might fly across the room!
Pat B
Title: Re: French Flower Cart
Post by: Intarsia92 on September 17, 2012, 12:41:41 pm
Pat, If you?re referring to the flowers, they are the smallest pieces, I made them, using a few different size dowels.

Step 1:  I used a round steel bit in my Foredom flex shaft tool and put dimples in the ends of the dowels before cutting to size (See first picture)

Step 2:  I then cut them off about 3/32? thick (See Second picture). 

Step 3:  After cutting about 30, I placed them on a strip of double sided tape, which was fastened to a piece of scrap material and painted them.   After they were painted they were very easy to handle.

3rd picture shows some flowers I had left over.
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Post by: mainberg on September 17, 2012, 03:56:30 pm
I was thinking more of shaping the leaves in the pots, for instance. Clever way to do the flowers. Thank you for sharing. Nice that we do that for each other. We are a community.
Pat B
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Post by: Keefie on September 17, 2012, 04:37:44 pm
WOW - now that takes some patience. very clever though, thanks for sharing your secrets with us all.
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Post by: cdrover(Clyde) on September 22, 2012, 08:57:29 pm
wonderful work there Al, but I wouldn't expect to see anything
less. Thanks for sharing, I am inspired to try another intarsia piece. But have to finish a few other projects first. :-[ :-[