With the completion of my " Majestic Mountains Lake" Intarsia scene I decided to do another oval shaped frame for my new  project. The Fishtail Oak frame I used for the last piece was something I made years ago as a marble inlayed table top and never completed. My idea for that project was to  fill in the 1/2" recess in the frame left by the thickness of the marble and cut the intarsia thin enough to have a 1/4" area above the intarsia to be able to encapsulate the entire top with table top resin to be able to be used as a serving tray or hang on the wall for display. This project  took over 100 hours to complete and has 385 pieces of wood (including the frame, handles and  inlays) from 28 different woods. I really like the looks of the oval frame  but this time I have to make the frame from scratch. I dug out my shop made oval jig and setting the arm to make a 12" x 18"  oval  got the inside drawn, then reset the arm to give me a 2" width for the frame sections. The frame will be made of 4 bookmatched  sections with  the pieces joined at the top , sides and bottom. I had a piece of  8/4 Chechen  that's been hanging around the shop for years and figured I could re-saw to get my 3/4" bookmatched sections.  Re-sawed, planed and ended up with my  bookmatched 3/4" stock.  At this point I taped the pieces back together and applied the traced pattern to the wood blanks. And the fun begins !!

Amazing work. Had to look very close to see joints on frame. Love the look of intarsia just not the patience here.

Just when one thinks you can't improve on what you already did, you find a way to kick it up a few notches.

Beautiful Mike...beautiful. Your imagination and creativity is amazing.

Oh, WOW!