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General Category => Intarsia => Topic started by: Scroll Down on January 23, 2013, 05:11:24 pm

Title: What do you call it?
Post by: Scroll Down on January 23, 2013, 05:11:24 pm

Making Intarsia?
Intarsist?
Intarsia Artist?
Intarsia Carver?
Intarsia Sculptor?
Woodworker?
Scroll Sawer?
Intarsiac...my own twist and personal favorite..


Not a big deal but have had a few friends ask what I'm up to now and seem to stumble over it calling it something different each time. Wondering if there is a commonly used description.

Will need it soon, after I progress from, "guy making scraps of wood with squiggly lines and rounded off turns with a scroll saw while breaking blades."

Title: Re: What do you call it?
Post by: EIEIO on January 23, 2013, 06:31:29 pm

A person who does Intarsia is called an "Intarsist" according to Merriam-Webster:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intarsist (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intarsist)

Title: Re: What do you call it?
Post by: Intarsia92 on January 23, 2013, 07:49:04 pm

When a person ask what I do I just say "I make Intarsias" and then they say " What is that" and that's when the long explanation starts.  LOL

Title: Re: What do you call it?
Post by: Jim Finn on January 24, 2013, 07:40:08 pm

I call it:"Making sawdust"

Title: Re: What do you call it?
Post by: Keefie on January 25, 2013, 05:40:35 am

I called it Total Failure when I had an attempt at it lol