I made it to the wood store last week and purchased the birds eye maple I needed for my Carousel horse intarsia. I also picked up a few other boards of wood while there -

So I worked on the horse head this week. It was taking about an hour to cut and fit 3 pieces of wood. I still have to work on the fit of some of the pieces, and will have to re-cut at least one piece. But this gives you an idea of how it's going to look!

I still haven't figured out what color to make the "gem" on it's chest, or the saddle seat.