I was browsing a few sites this morning looking for pictures of installed Mirage floors (does anyone have a picture of an installed Mirage floor?) and I found this:

Those look painted on to me. Then top coated to protect. Hmmmm, I wonder which bait they use?

If you look at the site, they are all inlaid.

http://woodfloorist.com/

When you mentioned Mirage flooring, I assumed that these were pics of Mirage, which are prefinished. Inlay in a prefinished would (unless a simple feature strip) most likely not turn out too well. Thats why I thought they were painted on, which also is often done. But my mistake, for assuming these were prefinished Mirage floors, which they're not, and for guessing they were painted on fishes, which they're not. All in all, a very nice job that shows tremendous talent and skill.

Some of his other work is amazing as well!

Sorry for the confusion of the original post!

I suspect we'll be seeing the Floorist(Franklyn) any moment now. He has this board linked to his site. Would be nice to hear his comments on how that was made--though I think it's described on his site.

I don't know... there's something fishy about that floor...

I was checking where the visitors to my website were coming from this morning and was quite pleased to see a number of visitors from this board.

This goldfish inlay was actually my second attempt at doing this. I nearly cut my fingers off the first time I tried it on the table saw.

I have done this goldfish inlay on a third job in Denver into an oval.

I have also installed Mirage flooring but this goldfish job isn't it.

I learned how to do this inlay from watching my wife do stained glass. The technique is similar only I am using wood instead of glass.

I have a lot more pictures that I just haven't had time to upload to the website yet.

Oops. For pictures of Mirage Flooring try this
http://images.google.com/images?q=Mirage+flooring&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

Franklyn:

I knew you'd show up I too noticed my logs where it noted a woodfloorist.com/stats referral--I figured it had to be you. If you have the time please let us know what you've been up to.

Tablesaw? Ouch! Have you any experience with http://www.festool-usa.com/? Now those are some very cool toys to do that kind of work with.

Locy's Hardwood Floors

I have sent an email to the nearest distributor who is over 60 miles away. I haven't heard back from him yet. I have seen the circular saw. Pretty nifty. A cabinet crew had one.