Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-06, страница 30

Homer and Carol Bishop of Strcator, H, designed and crafted these two fine-looking projects. The sailboat was made mostly from 3/4" woods: the water is western red cedar, the waves are Cottonwood, the masts are mahogany, and the sails are maple. The only exception to the 3/4" stock is the clouds, which were cut from 1/4" aromatic cedar.

The zebra projecL makes use of both segmentation and intarsia techniques. The -zebra was made from a single piece of oak and the stripes were added with a felt-tip pen. As you can see, the ground and background make use of prominent grain patterns, while the tree was made intarsia-style from two contrasting woods, 'ihe zebra alone consists of more than one hundred picces and was cut with a No. 2 blade. With nil the culling, the zebra ended up being 1/4" shorter than the jjutteni as a result of all the saw-blade kerfs.

One of the Angels was made from white aluminum siding on wood, and the other is white Formica on wood. Similarly, one of the Doves is Lucltc™ on wood, while the other is Formica on wood. The Tree on the left is gmen Luctte on wood, and the ore on the right is Formica on wood. Finally, the upper Deer ornament Is Formica on wood, while the bottom Deer is copper on wood.

Jim Gress of Bowmansville, PA, hits been subscribing to our magazine for "a long time." Two years ago, he and his wife Margaret decorated an eleven-foot Douglas Fir tree wilh 232 ornaments cut exclusively by Jim. No two ornaments were alike, and eighteen different materials were used, including wood, copper, aluminum siding, vinyl siding, paper, and cardboard, just to name a few. Jim. your use of diverse materials is truly inspiring!

John Robinson of Nanaimo, B.C., Canada, has "been doing intarsia since I first read and explored...Creative Woodworks A. Crafts magazine in 1997." John worked his way tip to advanced level projects, such as Garnet Hall's Soaring Oil High (pictured here), lor wliich he won Best In Show at the Vancouver Island Exhibition in 2002. John has gone on to win a number of awards, and his work is sold through gift shops, the Nanaimo Arts Council, and privately in places as far away as the United Kingdom. Also pictured is John's original design, entitled Eagle Wings. Very impressive, John!

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From left to right, the Daisy is wood; the Horn is formica™; the Spoon Is a wooden ice Cream spoon; the Bison is leather; and the Snowfiake is cardboard.