Creative Woodworks & crafts 2001-06, страница 53

by Robert J. Hlavacek, Sr. of Wildlife Intarsia Designs

INSTRUCTIONS

An intarsia innovation

It's always nice to look at intarsia projects, but I've never seen a functional one. The wood duck lamp takes intarsia a step further. By adding a base and wiring it, I created a lamp. For about three dollars more you can add a neat motion activated sound j box and hear a frog croak when the lamp is turned on or off. /

Preparation /

Place clear packing tape on the wood, then glue the pat- p terns in place with spray adhesive. Be sure to have the / 4 straight cut edges on the bottom of the duck, cattail ,/ leaves, and cattail seed pods (see Fig. 1). Bore a 21/64''- / Dia. hole approximately 3/32" deep for the 8mm glass / _t eye (see Fig. 2) Since glass eyes can vary, slightly in / jt thickness, test drill in. scrap wood for exact depth. ft ^p

Cut the seed pods square <?f both ends. Bote j , 3/16'-Dia. holes about 1/2" deep in the center of each / end (see Fig. 3). h ''

lines «Illustration A -found >n the Pattern Section, /

with masking taps' oh both steles fee well as the ^

edges. Sand to contour the sections (see Fig. 4). '"' " •"** '"'"" " ''' * -

Befer to the Typical Contours Drawing, tound in the Pattern \

Section, and the photo of the finished project. Round over the oaltaP seed pods as shewn in Fig. 5.

Painting , •

Use the fallowing ratios for twang rhetafes with the other colors' JL

4 parts Blue Velvet to 1 part Silver fflL

2 parts ChocioJate Cherfy to 1 pstl Red Copper , . M

3 parts Daik Foliage Green to 1 part Bronze jM

Also, mix 2-parts-'.Delta Gel Stain Medium with 3 parts paint. Hint: a coffee can lid makes a good palette / .

, -Separate |he % color iami painting (see Fig. $ md Full S»*e Pattern Sections. Apply the-paint evenly with a flat -tip brush so that the wood grain shows through. Excess can be wiped-off with a clean soft cloth. Vary the shading on the leaves When the basecoafe dry, brush on 'the cfemrtg Wealed by the dashed fines on

Clamp a straight edged board ttt a flat surface Put down a sheet of wax paper so

th$t your duck doesn't get stuck to tie straight edge or table and begin gluing

the pieces together with 5-mimAe epoxy (see Fig. a) Ptacd the leaves

and duck on the t/6" plywood hackers and trace their outlines Tift the

saw table 10 degrees fett and cut slightly on the inside of the line . JZj&SSBffl

as shown in Fig. 3.

Paint the edges and backs of both backers Gamal Green J

Glue them in place with carpenter's giue, lightly clamping with 1

C-clamps to insure a good bond (see Fig. 10) '^nj

Apply several light coats of Interior Matte Sptay Varnish < n "re duck leaves, and cattails. When dry. brush two or three coats of Safin Varnish ■JKS& on the bill. . ; . JOm

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After cutting th£ wood and Plexiglas to siz®, spread a tbjrc even M »-MBHb opal of Weldhotid giue onto both s«t faces (see Fig. 1t). fHHH

Align the back edge of the Piexfglas with the base Clamp ' <>'■ mSSmm

together and allow tb dry overnight (see Fig. 12) '"» ||«agg|

Pjace packing tape over fhe p/etesftve paper on the < |||||||

Plexigtas, then attach the pattern with spray adhesws, aligning the back edge of the pattern,with the base, as,WBKBKSB^^^ - 'd 11 Fig 13 t t r ij, • nI 1 .jn -(■' I) '

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