Help please

[grampa]

I have  decided to try my hand at intarsia after seeing all the great pieces you guys make and have started with a simple Deer. my question is How do you cut and shape the small bits around the eyes !!!!!!! Thanks in advance .........Paul

[joey65746]

hey grandpa   on the ones i have done  around the eyes  i used a flexshaft or a dremal to shape them  on the real small parts that are the same wood i dont cut them out i just shape them with the dremal 

[Intarsia92]

I shape/sand small pieces, such as around the eyes of the Deer, either with my Foredom flex-shaft tool or on the horizontal foam-backed 2-1/2 " X 7" sander, see attached picture.   If the pieces are very small I'll use double sided tape and fasten them to a piece of scrap to save my finger tips.   

Note:  The sander only turn at about 1,100 rpm which is a little easier on the fingers.
          The motor is a 1925 GE. and still runs like new.
 

[Intarsia92]

 Sorry, didn't get the picture attached before I hit the button,

[cdrover(Clyde)]

Grandpa, I do the same as Joeyand Intarsia92. Be sure the grain is running in the direction you want to complement the piece. Some times I cut them a little larger than the pattern then take off the extra with my flexable rotary tool . Mine has a variable speed so I slow it down when the pieces are tiny or I do it by hand. Looks good so far.

[grampa]

Well I finished the Deer, didn,t turn out to bad for my first one, I don,t think i will be doing another my fingers are to big 
for all the small bits and there ain,t to much skin left on them.......Paul

[Keefie]

very nice work there Paul, is that a bit of skin left hanging on it's antler??lol

[newfie]

wow nice work Paul.

[daliclimbs]

It came out great Paul!

[Intarsia92]

Good Job Paul, The Deer looks very nice. I think you ought to stick with it. Just pick patterns with larger pieces. A lot of times, except with things like eyes and such, small areas can be incorporated into larger areas and no one knows the difference.

[cdrover(Clyde)]

Great work Paul. Keep at it, you will learn ways to do the small pieces, I did. and as Intarsia 92 says NO ONE knows only you. 

[Al W]

Nice job there Paul, keep going with it, you should be able to design a beaut of a pattern sans small pieces. 

[mrsn]

great job paul!

[boxmaker]

That came out nice Paul.

[Rover2]

Really nice job Paul.  Thought you were having problems but it don't look like it from the results.  Good work.