wdkits1

Hi everyone
I'm in the process of designing the sign for our scrolling group-- The River City Scrollers here in Richmond. At our last meeting we cut out all of the letters for the sign and we decided to do an intarsia to show how Richmond got it's nickname--River City. I found a pic of The James River with the city in the background and gridded it to help with the scale.


The next step was to make the frame for the sign. I found some 12" wide Mahogany that a friend of mine has (over 1000bf and over 40 years old) and bought 20 bf for use on some of my projects and it was perfect for the sign. I cut the frame out using the cut and drop method which gives me 1/2" of inlay area and routed the edges.



Here is a picture of the finished pattern


Well we made good progress on our group sign during our meeting. All of the members got to do some intarsia and we all had a good time. Here is a picture after our first cutting session. Woods used so far--Water,Blue Mahoe--White water, Fungus stained holly--Rocks, Spalted red maple--The lettering is holly on walnut and the sign board is Mahogany.

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www.midlothianwoodworks.com

Why buy it when you can build it

phinds

This is really looking very nice !

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firehawkmph

Looking good Mike, as always.
Can't wait to see it finished.
Mike Hawkins

jdixon

The beginning of another great one. Thanks for sharing and keep us updated on the progress.

John