[ragiarn]

I was not sure where to place this project. It is in reality an Intarsia project in spirit but it might be considered by some as being more along the line of a sculpture in the round. I have already posted it on the Scrollsaw Forum but I thought that this forum might also be appropriate.

The project of recreating the Davinci horse has finally come to an end and I am very proud of the results. This project forced me to extend my skills into new territory from converting a photo into a workable pattern, learning new shaping and contouring techniques and use of new tools.

Wood: Mahogany, Wenge (mane, tail and eyes), Aspen (forehead), ironwood (hooves) Hickory (base). 18" long by 17" high. There ae 26 individual pieces in all (not counting the spacers for widening the body and neck). My original prototype had about 100 pieces. At Jeff's suggestion I used fewer pieces and added more carving technique to my shaping process.

This project has been 8 weeks in the making, starting with the research of the photos to the making of the patterns and the proto types to putting the final touches yesterday.

The term "Intarsia in the round" comes from learning about carving in this carving forum. JGR (Judy Gale Roberts ) describes her intarsia as dimensional intarsia or bas relief.

What distinguishes Intarsia from carving in relief is the use of grain direction, wood shades and different color woods to obtain the desired effect. As someone aptly termed it as ainting with wood".

I consider my work as intarsia because I employ different colors and shades of wood to obtain the desired result. The end result is really two intarsia patterns conjoined to form one end result

I have included views of the right side and the left side before final assembly of the parts.

For this reason I call it Intarsia in the Round.


Doc

[sharon cottrell]

That is fabulous. I didn't know what Intarsia was, now I do. Lots of thought and preparation in it. It's just got that wow factor. Exellent work!

[Merle Rice]

Hi Doc, Very nice Piece of ART. Have you been doing it very long? Interesting style of Carving and you seem to do it well. Merle

[AlArchie]

Doc, that is impressive, no matter what you call it! You have reason to be proud!

Al

[Ron T]

My gosh what a beautiful horse. It sure looks like a carving in the round instead of intarsia.

[Jim-Iowa]

Very nice job Doc!! I can see that as a very interesting way to go with the carving.
Back in the early 90's I was a big fan of Wood Magazine.
They ran a number of articles on projects by Judy Gale Roberts.
The intarsia seemed too much like jigsaw puzzles for my taste(though I love scrolling). My wife Jo on the otherhand loves jigsaw puzzles, so wanted to do the intarsia. One problem she wanted no part of my power tools. We started out with my doing the sawing and she did the rest. However since I convinced her the scrollsaw was the safest power tool, She took off on her own and all I got to do was make the frames for her. From buying patterns she started making her own and does very nice work. We've since got two saw, so I can do my fretwork.