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Another attempt at an Intarsia project. For a detailed write up see my post in the Intarsia/Segmentation furum. Comments and critiques always welcome.

I have not been in the workshop for a month, it's just been too darn hot (95+ with 105+ heat index for weeks)and my little window a/c could not shed the heat. Even on days that the temps dropped a little I just could not find the motivation. Well, we are finally in the 80s, and I forced myself to work in the shop, 30 minutes at a time, getting back to an hour, then 90 minutes. It's a forcing function. But the heat this summer broke me mentally. Here is a tree of life (no roots though) that is a little nontraditional, but I think it came out pretty nice. 100% inside cuts, even the perimeter. I used Bloodwood, which is hard as heck and I went through blades about every 20-30 minutes. Used Flying Dutchman Ultra Reverse. #5 for the smaller details on the right, #7 for the larger on the left, and #9 for the perimeter. Cut on a 30" Pegas, with Pegas chuck. Here are a few images. The finished piece, a closeup through my lighted magnifying glass, and the pan under the saw, I throw the waste wood and dead blades. It is magnetized, so I do keep blades that have a little life left stuck to the back.

My latest project - Halloween box with hidden opening mechanism. "Trick or Treat" sign is moving element: if it in the lower position box is locked, if it in the upper position you can remove top of the box. Watch the video to see how it works and how it was made. Also pattern includes 2 variant: usual box and with hidden mechanism Halloween box pattern

I had time to spend in the shop and various projects to work on. The live edge bowl came from a wood cookie that I had for a long time and my wife wanted a chips bowl, the cottage is a real old pattern that I found in the shop don’t remember from where I got it. The beer caps display was just an idea from my wife, did one before with wine corks so we try another one, now back to golf.

I picked up my “new” Hegner this week. I ordered a quick clamp and quick tension rod from Advanced Machinery and they showed up yesterday. This is a 30 year old saw and damn, it runs so very smooth. Now I have one for my summer shop and one for my winter shop. I found the saw on Market Place. While there I also picked up a Porter Cable router and router table with fine adjust. And in the 2nd picture is a 6” digital height gauge. Been looking for one for quite awhile. They accepted my offer of $350.00 plus a Coin Drop that I make. Pretty good deal I’d say. By the way, if anyone is interested in an EX-21, I have two for sale. Going cheap.

Frank, very nicely done, you are becoming the intarsia king, RJ

Very nicely done, and remember it is suppose to be fun, RJ

Are you enjoying it? Are you learning? Are you looking forward to your next project? Time spent doing these things is time well spent.

WOW Frank. You are going gung-ho over this Intarsia stuff. This one is simply amazing. You knocked this one out of the park. Jerry

I think you have this intarsia thing! Well done.

awesome job

Congrats! Great deal!

Wow! Great finds. Lucky you!!!

Jackpot!!!!! Jerry

I usually use walnut, maple or cherry for my cutting boards whether they are edge grain like these or end grain. I have been told that oak and ash are not good to use as they have open pores that will attract moisture and mildew. For finish I use a food grade mineral oil soak well and then use a mixture of 50/50 mineral oil and beeswax. Give it a couple of coats and eventually finish with an old car polisher. You can buy board wax too. I have used Chapman's and it works the same. I give a small can of board balm with each board.

Ahhhh……. I see. Best of luck with your hunt for a new camper. from what I have found the slides do tend to sag due to the unsupported span. Something to watch for if you look used. We also just swapped all our light bulbs for LED and the current dropped from 37.5 amps to 6 amps on the DC inverter. The fans don’t start immediately with the lights anymore.

My camper doesn't have a slide out and I've never really been around one enough to know if that would be normal or not. So far I have taken the dinette seats and a portion of a cabinet out. I then took the stove, sink, and refrigerator out as I found the wall on the other side was soft and I have another what appears to be active leak.. I kinda stopped working after that as I'm trying to decide if it's worth trying to fix.. We plan to go looking at some new and used ones and have looked at a couple older used ones that we spotted what looked like maybe the start of some leak damage so nope.. not going that route since I have one that I could rebuild and make it however we want since it looks like I'll have to basically gutt the whole thing if I continue with repairing the one I have. All of the stuff I've removed so far had been screwed from both outside and inside into the wall studs. more screws on the inside but there are some that come in from the outside. It makes for a really tough job to remove things without destroying them.. so I may turn this into something else like a makeshift mobile shop or turn into a flatbed trailer, LOL.. Making a shop out of it would allow me to use the furnace and the A/C.. I don't care if I have to rebuild some of the walls or even reroof it again.. but gutting it out I won't care if i destroy the cabinets or anything because I'll just be gutting it.. If I try saving the thing as a camper then I want to try to carefully remove the cabinets etc.. and that is a lot of work.. was doable with just the one small portion of the wall on one side but now that I discovered the other side too.. This thing is old and served us well through the years of my kids growing up.. I neglected it for several years now as life happen with the kids going to college and everything we hadn't camped in close to 8 - 10 years now.. Used to spend most of a summer camping..

Assortment of blades is a great idea.. I hadn't thought about some smaller sized for tight areas so I'll have to see what is available. Thank you for the advice given