"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.

From the archives of "Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts" come 37 tested and approved patterns to satisfy a crafter's intarsia or segmentation itch. Scroll beautiful flowers, majestic lighthouses, and stunning animal portraits.

Learn the art of intarsia with celebrated artist and instructor Kathy Wise in this skill building guidebook filled with step-by-step instructions, basic lessons and concepts, and helpful techniques

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 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.

21 full-size patterns ranging from beginner to expert. Includes step-by-step tutorial to get you started with in depth information on shaping.

• 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.