Beginner/Intermediate Level  Watermelon 10 x 8½”  51 pieces Pears 10” x 8½” 33 pieces. 
Fruit Series: Watermelon & Pear with checkerboard frame. A wood-burner was used to add the watermelon & pear seeds.
A Wonder Wheel  was used for adding texture. 
Woods Used:  Various shades of Western Red Cedar for the background, Aspen for the White, Yellow Heart, Pink My Lady. 

Woods Used on  this watermelon: Red Heart, two shades of Green Poplar, Spalted Maple background, Buckeye for the shadow, Aspen for the white. I remade the melon because I had some great green poplar.
Suggested Blades:  Gold #5 for Western Red Cedar or any softwood. Platinum Plus #5,  Platinum #5,  TLB #5  for the hardwoods.  PLP-2/0, or TLB #2/0 to cut the interior lines (after the exterior lines are cut). 

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