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About Scroll Saw
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Intarsia is a challenging craft to learn yet very rewarding. Scroll sawing requires attention to detail especially while cutting out any intricate wood parts. This is all learned skills, the more you do it the easier and more automatic this craft becomes. Intarsia woodworking, like many other things, has different skill levels. Much of the intarsia work presented here is the flat panel style of woodworking. This style of scroll saw woodworking lends it's self to be easily adapted for use as a decorative panel or overlay in custom cabinetry or custom furniture. Using intarsia this way requires some higher woodworking skill levels if your going to be building custom furniture to apply it to.
These furniture pieces will also require more advanced tools than the average hobbyist may have. Don't despair, wood working tools can be added to your collection a little at a time.
We will be exploring the woodworking tools needed, such as wood planers, table saws, band saws, cordless drills sanders, and computer software.
Intarsia was used for this display mantel and fireplace surround for the lobby of Phoenix Woodworking Corporation which does custom woodworking for the northern Illinois area.
The mantel was painstakingly constructed by intarsia artisan cabinetmaker Stan Michals.
See Detail of inlaid mantel
Built of cherry wood with birdseye maple accents, this fireplace mantel is a project that takes some time to build due to the many details involved. The sides are mitered columns with fluted overlays, all staying within the design theme of the room. Read more about the intarsia involved....
"Intarsia Woodworking"
"Intarsia doors" is what I was thinking when
I saw this cabinet laying in pieces in an old barn.
First I
took off the old finish,
then cut out some of the
wood structure inside the cabinet that I didn't
want so I would have room for new
stereo components.
Then I repaired and glued up all the loose parts of the cabinet box.
Next I
sketched a intarsia design for the doors and
enlarged it to fit the
size of the doors.
I cut the pieces for the intarsia design, stained, glued up
and finished the doors
off the cabinet. After
sanding very well to make sure all the old finish was gone, I stained
and lacquered the
body of the cabinet.
The doors are split down the center like normal, along the straight
stem
of the flower, unlike some of
my doors where the opening depends on the picture lines.
This was an old
"RCA" record player cabinet that's now "Reborn".
" Hawks Dream"
This intarsia design was inlaid into a painted background of rolling hills ( what you see here is a cropped and black painted version). The theme is a hawk ( the larger bird ) flying over the Midwest hills dreaming of being an eagle soaring high through the mountains.
This is the cover page for my E-Book ......"Intarsia Designing"
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