Christmas intarsia projects by Bob Boisvert

Andy Moss:
Miter Saw Stand with dust hood, dust collection, side wings with tracks and stop, dust drawer under saw and five storage draws.
This project took several months to complete. I built the draws using a draw lock router bit (first use... worked great!). The top drawer is a shallow, full length pull out dust drawer for easy vacuuming of sawdust. Vacuum hose enters from back and flexes for full rotation of saw in either direction. Electric comes up from the bottom. The hood has custom sliding panels to control dust. Saw can cut 45 degrees in either direction with a spare panel to use when saw is rotated to the left. I made the panel handles out of pieces of poplar stained with the same Rosewood stain as the trim on the case. The side wings are supported by collapsible angle brackets and have a track for the custom stop I built for repeatable cuts. The case is stained with honey maple and everything has three coats of Polycrilic finish.

In 2007 our Mid-Hudson Woodworkers group was asked to build a playhouse so that the Court Appointed Special Advocate Program (CASA) could raffle it off to make money. The mission of the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program is to promote and protect the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in court proceedings through advocacy efforts of trained volunteers. The project was completed in June 2007 with about 15 people contributing much of the labor and materials. The playhouse (shown above) was put on display in the Hudson Valley Mall where raffle tickets were available for sale.

Pete Chast, Richie Shoulkin, Fred Dubois, Al Shinker and Fred Saar are cutting out Holes for windows and door.

Joe Kennedy, Fred Saar, Joe Benkert, George Norton, Ron Mauer, Bob Lawless, Fred Dubois and David Giles are assembling the pre-fab siding.

Fred Dubois and Al Shinker getting roof supports ready for application of roof.

Fred Saar and Bob Doran are applying siding.

Completed but not yet painted on flatbed to truck ready for transporting.

Jim Lee made these spaceships and UFOs for his grandkids for Christmas.

Ismael Berrios: Crib.

The following four intarsia are by Bob Boisvert.

Western Meadowlark Intarsia
Woods used: Aspen, Ambrosia Maple, Walnut, Yellow Heart, Blue Pine, Barnboard. 
Finished with Gel Urethane. Pattern byJudy Gale Roberts.

Rose & Cross Intarsia - Dark
Woods used: Poplar, Walnut, Aromatic Red Cedar
Finished with Gel Urethane. Pattern by Teri Clark.

Rose & Cross Intarsia - Light
Woods used: Maple, Walnut, Poplar, Aromatic Red Cedar
Finished with Gel Urethane. Pattern by Teri Clark.

Magnolia Intarsia
Woods used: Aspen, Canberra, Yellow Heart, Maple Vaneer Plywood
Finished with Gel Urethane. Pattern by Judy Gale Roberts.

John VanBuren: Strip Canoe. Working on this for many months.

Wally Cook: KWA small box challenge. Turning is made from a yew branch with a maple finial. Finish is CA glue and boiled linseed oil.

Andy Moss: I made a cover for my full-size tissue box. Curly maple with Cherry sides and accents. It was interesting routing the 3/16" grooves on the front and then fitting the Cherry strips (rounding over the ends by hand). Finished with Bush Oil and topped with a rub-on poly. Since the sides are only 1/4" I used epoxy instead of wood glue to join the miters.

This table was designed by Al Shinker and was built by Al, Jim Lee and Ron Roberts. It was built to be a raffle item at Showcase from Mid-Hudson Woodworkers. It is made of cherry with a wipe on poly finish.

This table was Jim Lee's entry for this year's Showcase. It's a curly cherry table with curly maple accents. The small pyramids are ebony. It has a water based acrylic finish.

Win Crans: From left to right starting in the back: Small olivewood bowl, Spalted Tamarind lighthouse, Jobillo with padauk lid maple insert purpleheart finial, Indian Laurel vase with oak stripe, bokote bowl, camphor bowl, large olivewood bowl, redwood bowl. All are finished with Waterlox tung oil varnish and/or poly.

Andy Moss: I found this tissue box cover design on the Woodworkers Guild of America website. Since this was my first attempt I used pine for the sides but found a scrap of black walnut for the top and trim. Finished with a wipe-on poly.

Andy Moss: I attended the box joint class held at the NWA shop March 7 & 14. We made made two identical maple boxes with plywood tops and bottoms (provided by the instructors); one at the router table and one at the table saw. We also added dadoes to the sides and rabbets in the corners. When the box top was cut off the assembled box, it left the inside edge that mates to the top. I added a custom handle from a scrap of figured maple. I eased the handle edges with a 1/8" roundover router bit. On the box on the left, I also eased all the box edges to give it a softer look. One box was finished with General Finishes' wipe-on gel poly and one with Bush oils.