T Rex Intarsia

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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.  
thats bad ass ! im gonna get one of those ring lights because i always have trouble getting good pic's. thanks for posting.

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what is the round thing in front ?  just curious its very nice GR8 JOB 😍😎👍

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Very well done.  great job on the texturing.
The round thing in front is A LED light.   It really helps with shadows and this one also has different colored light.  I took pictures thru the middle.
That is nice, lots of details, just a wonderful project for a kid's room. Well done.

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