My older brother has done a large variety of intarsia projects throughout his time woodworking.
Intarsia is a art from that uses different types of wood cut, shaped, and glued together to make a scene or object. He
has helped me with a few projects trying out the craft.
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My first intarsia project was making an elephant box. I am a huge fan of elephants
and tried a basic intarsia design and decided to put it on a box. It is primarily made of mahogany with maple tusks.
It turned out pretty good, but I wish I did more shaping on it.
My 2nd intarsia project was a ornament for my girlfriend that I gave Christmas of 2020.
Over 2020 she got a kitten that was sometimes a bit of a handful, so this intarsia design was perfect. It is made
with maple wood which I stained green and red for the wreath. To get the coat of the kitten correct, I blotted on a solution
of ammonium chloride and water, then when I hit it with a heat gun it burns the wood. Overall, I was very happy with how the effect
turned out and it has a good likeness to her cat.
In 2023 my girlfriend's parents got another cat, so I felt like making them
another ornament to match the one I gave my girlfriend previously. I made the pattern for this project with
multiple coloring book type pages found online that I traced over and combined. The star is yellowheart, the cat
is zebrawood, the white nose is cottonwood, the trunk is walnut, the red stripes on the tree is bloodwood, and the tree
is dyed douglas fir.