"If you can use a band or scroll saw, you can create professional-looking, three-dimensional pictures in wood. Intarsia--the art of cutting out, then fitting together thin, differently colored and textured wooden pieces--is a craft of precision and artistry that can be enjoyed on many levels. By offering lessons in the use of power saws and other tools, safety tips, finishing techniques, and wood selection, this comprehensive guide adapts the ancient art of intarsia to today's woodworker. For three beginning pieces--a simple flower, a rose, and a happy face clown--explicit instructions, along with tips for avoiding or dealing with common pitfalls, start you on your way. Once you've honed your skills you can apply them--and your enhanced understanding of woods--to create one-of-a-kind artworks based on any of the other 17 projects. Discover the creative possibilities of intarsia ... and add a new dimension to your woodworking."--Publisher description.

A Woodworker's Book Club selection, this book includes complete instructions, patterns, and color photos of intarsia scroll-saw woodworking projects.

Learn the secrets of intarsia, the woodworking art of making picture mosaics in wood. Using ordinary tools and common woods, you can create these 13 beautiful intarsia projects in your own home workshop. From wood selection, project layout, and cutting to final finishing, this workshop manual shows you everything you need to know to get started.

• Revised and expanded guide to the art of making picture mosaics in wood using different woods and wood grains. • Readers will build their skills as they create impressive decorated boxes, gifts, jewelry, signs, plaques, and more. • 15 step-by-step projects that can be made in just one weekend. • All new color project photography. • Author is the #1 intarsia expert, recognized in Better Homes and Gardens' WOOD Magazine Woodworking Hall of Fame.

Kathy's 3rd Book has 30 Bird Intarsia Patterns for Beginners to Advanced Woodworkers. It includes: four easy to advanced step by step projects , beautiful photos and clearly explained techniques for creating realistic Bird Intarsia projects.

Garnet Hall, author of Art of Intarsia and Creative Intarsia Projects, is back with more fabulous techniques and breathtaking projects that take the art to new and exciting levels. Intarsia involves cutting different types and shades of wood into shapes and then assembling them to create an intricate design: the resulting piece is rich in color and appealingly dimensional. With this guide in hand, beginners will have all the advice they need on cutting and fitting accurately, raising and lowering the pieces to get the look of relief carving, and shaping, sanding, and texturing the wood. The great patterns and projects feature a bright toucan on a branch, chicken kitchen clock, an astral mirror, and an Arctic scene.

Learn the art of intarsia from the #1 expert, Judy Gale Roberts! You'll be amazed at the beautiful pictures you can create when you learn to combine different colors and textures of wood to make raised 3-D images. Features 8 projects and expert instruction. Great for beginners!