will this work?

[Wichman]

What do you think?

[Gene Howe]

With judicially careful placement and glue application. Sure hope it works. That's some mighty fine cutting. Gonna be a beauty.

[OCtoolguy]

5 minutes ago, Wichman said:

What do you think?

I think it needs a darker background. For contrast. Nice cutting.

[Scrappile]

I would agree with Ray, but this is glued pieces,, I think it works,  subtle, sometime I like subtle.

[kmmcrafts]

Like others have said it looks great to me.. I'm personally not a fan of layered projects where the pieces stick out from the backer.. ( I don't know the correct term ). mainly because it's just a source for dust to collect onto and makes it more difficult to clean.. same way with "unframed" portraits or framed without glass to help keep dust out of the actual piece..

IF I were to do something similar to this I would rather see it as a "inlay" much like Dave Monk does with his beautiful works of art.. easy to wipe dust off and polish a flat surface.. in fact this could be a sales pitch to those selling their inlay stuff.. or make both styles and explain to a customer the differences and advantages of the higher priced inlay work, LOL 

This is not to criticize the beautiful work you've done here.. it's just a opinion of mine because I hate cleaning / dusting and it gets horribly tedious with pieces similar to this or fretwork.. so I'm looking at it as a overall beautiful work I just wouldn't want to be the person that would be cleaning this..  

[Wichman]

This is not glued yet.

I used the negative cutting as a template to place all the pieces accurately.

[Wichman]

The arrowhead plaque was still wet with BLO when I took the first picture. Here is a side by side with the "actual" piece on the right and the drop outs forming another wolf on the left, I am trying for a twofer (sixfer? I stack cut 3, 1/4" plaques). 

Cleaning this type of project is super easy, canned air. Need I say more. (and I do understand your personal preferences).

 

 

[Fab4]

Hi Wichman:
Love it, it's different from what we see all the time.
Just gives another perspective on what can be done.
Thanks for showing us
Fab4

[Denny Knappen]

Mighty fine cutting

[crupiea]

Sure it will work, looks good.

I would use the piece i cut it out of as a gluing template so all the pieces line up right and stay put while the glue dries.
Maybe also a bit of color for contrast but thats just me.
What i do with my stuff is put all the pieces back into the outer frame and glue it all together.  

Edited September 30, 2023 by crupiea

[barb.j.enders]

Looks great as is.  As someone said, subtle is good.  I think it would also look good if the pieces were darkend a bit, creating contrast that way!