I had been looking for an Intarsia project and decided that I would do a T Rex Head and used a pattern by Kathy Wise. I also found various pictures of the T Rex to use to try to make things more lifelike. The T Rex head is almost all Poplar where I picked various shades of the poplar. The teeth are made from Aspen and the tongue and mouth have Cherry and Walnut. I found some pictures of fossilized Dinosaur skin and then textured the wood to look like that.
The background is Blue Pine that was resawn form a 3/4" board and bookmatched. The finish is water based semi-gloss poly..
I have included a picture of my photo set up. I bought the circular LED light on Amazon and it provides very even lighting for pictures.