Wildlife Intarsia: A Step-by-step Guide to Making 3-Dimensional Wooden Portraits

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Outstanding book, great patterns and very good instructions.

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A great book for getting started in Intarsia. Lots of different stencils with different levels of difficulty. I am a beginner and appreciated the detail on how to pick the wood and prepare it for the project.

Very nice pattern book. I have made a couple of the patterns in this book and am very pleased with how they look.

This is an excellent book for intarsia patterns. I have made many projects using this books patterns. A must have for anyone with a scroll saw.

This is an excellent book on intarsia. The introduction is basic and clear, going over wood choices, various tools, pattern preparation and various techniques to shape and sculpt the wood. It also goes over gluing and finishing. One valuable technique they explain is the use of sanding shims which allows multiple pieces of wood to be sanded into one smooth cohesive shape.There are fourteen animal portraits in the book. They are, bald eagle, mustang, moose, burro, polar bear, red fox, arctic wolf, bobcat, buffalo, white tailed deer, jack rabbit, big horn ram, raccoon, and wolf.The bald eagle pattern is followed by a step by step photo demonstration on how to make it. The mustang and moose also have demonstrations following them. From there the level of instruction fades quickly to footnotes, but by then everything is explained.The patterns are extraordinary. I am familiar with the look of various animals and choosy about animal art, but aside from several very minor lines I would tweak (because I am nit-picky) I am satisfied. Each is true to the actual animal and nicely designed.The book has two minor drawbacks, both related to the patterns. There are no patterns for the sanding shims for each design. Though there are small photos of the shapes of the sanding shims, so a little calculation should be enough to replicate them.The second drawback is that most of the patterns seem to be on the simpler side of intermediate, or just intermediate. There are no simple beginner patterns, and there are none that would challenge experts. But with the clear instructions, a reasonably determined novice with some experience on a scroll saw (like me, my first pattern from this book nearly finished) should be successful. And experts will probably appreciate the skillfully designed patterns. So I couldn't let this detract from the rating.Another book is Kathy Wise's  Intarsia Woodworking Projects: 21 Original Designs with Full-Size Plans and Expert Instruction for All Skill Levels (A Scroll Saw, Woodworking & Crafts Book)  which also has good writing and has good patterns for all skill levels. This is preferable for raw beginners or an advanced scroller looking for a fearsome challenge.But if you like wild animal portraits and want to make them in Intarsia, this is your book.

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Bonjour, une fois de plus un nouveau livre qui vient compléter ma bibliothèque de livre en anglais, comme toujours ce livre est très bien fait pour les personnes comme moi qui ne savent pas lire l'anglais, pas besoin de savoir l' anglais, les explications sont tellement bien faite en images que cela suffit pour pouvoir réalisé les modèles, puis si vous avez vraiment un doute il est toujours possible de traduire sur internet. Sinon je peut ajouter que celui-ci contient de très beau modèles uniquement animalier, un âne, ours blanc, les photos de la couvertures sont aussi à l'intérieur, sauf erreur il y à 12 ou 15 modèles, les pages sont glacer, les images en couleurs.Personnellement je le trouve intéressant si vous aimez les animaux vous ne pourrez pas être déçu.Amicalement Sandrine

A great resource for wildlife patterns. Many can be done by novices. JGR's patterns are well designed and look great when completed. A good way to build a catalogue of project plans inexpensively.

Ich mag diese englischen Bücher sehr. Sie sind sehr im Detail bebildert, so dass man nicht unbedingt Englisch lesen können muß. Es sind einfach tolle Ideen, welche man mit ein wenig Geschick nachbauen kann. Toll und empfehlenswert.