Chinese New Year

[Dennis Perry]

Feb. 18 year of the???

This piece is 24" made of 556 parts. The work inprogress is the Golden Gate. Should be completed in a couple of weeks. 36" 1,575 parts.

Happy New Year

Dennis

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[Bob Keyes]

Really beautiful work Dennis. Is it all done with veneers? I have had trouble finding the colors I want. Do you dye some of yours?

[Mark Singer]

That is beautiful! I wish I had the patience! Tonight I am going to a Chinese New Year Party...fun!

[Dennis Perry]

Bob, it's resawn wood .165" thick all natural no stains. I'm always looking for wood with color, you never know where you'll find it.

Mark, thanks your signature line says it all.

Well it's the year of the what??:rolleyes:

Dennis

[Tony Lenkic]

Dennis,

That is awsome piece of art.
Febuary 18 2007 to febuary 6 2008 is year of PIG.

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Tony

[Dave Fifield]

Beautiful work Dennis!

I'd love to do a smaller similar version of that in laser marquetry (using veneers). Is the vector file available anywhere (for money or for free) or is this something you did yourself?

Cheers,

[George M. Perzel]

Hi Dennis;
Awesome work! The craftsmanship speaks for itself. I do smaller scale inlays and have quite a bit of cherry, walnut, jatoba, and maple available- 5/32" thick and 5.75" wide. Send me your address and will send samples.
Best regards;
George
LaserArts
gperzel@rochester.rr.com

[Dennis Perry]

Tony - you got it, thanks.

Dave - I did the drawing myself. Doing the piece smaller (25-50%), madeup of veneers would be very tuff. At 24" the smaller pieces are around .06" with over 500 parts using veneers keeping everthing to lay flat and to stay together with tape would be a tuff one, put possible. I'll send you a email from your website.

Goerge - Thank you for the offer. I see you sell your wood here on the web, looks real good at a far price. Finding the wood with color and figure then resawing is half the fun of it. I have thought about cutting wood for sale also, maybe help pay for drum sanders (16-32" & 50") 18"bandsaw with power feeder, but I have enough on my plate. Thanks again.

Thanks Dennis

[Dave Fifield]

Thanks Dennis - I have emailed you back. The closer I look at it (zoomed the photo), the more I see how intricate and wonderful it is!

Cheers for now,

[Dennis Perry]

500 pieces cut and in place, 1,000 or so to go :) The dark lines are shaddows of the parts high & low, the thickness of the wood. Wood ranges from around .125" - .170". The .125 wood was sanded to a uniform thickness, I no longer sand after runnig thru the bandsaw. I wait until the piece is completed then run thru the drum sander saves a lot of work.
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70 parts ready to be sent to the laser for cutting
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Dennis

[Vicky Orsini]

Wow! That's amazing. :cool: