An introduction to scroll-sawing reviews basic techniques and offers step-by-step instructions for creating more than forty projects, including bookends, a key holder, and a Victorian wall shelf.
Scrolling 101 is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in learning how to create beautiful scroll saw projects! Quick and easy-to-read, this booklet features a clear overview on scroll saw basics, choosing the right blade, adapting patterns, sanding tips, and more. Also included are helpful charts and illustrations, high-quality photography, and even a skill-building exercise to practice cutting waves, swirls, straight lines, and corners.
John Nelson has taught hundreds of students how to quickly and safely use the scroll saw to make practical and beautiful projects. Now it's your turn! Inside this book, you'll find everything you need to know, boiled down to the best and simplest methods. In each of the 25 chapters, you'll learn a specific skill, practice it and then use that skill to make an attractive project. As you progress, each chapter builds upon the previous skills you've learned. By the time you've completed the book, you'll be ready to tackle any scroll saw project with experience and confidence.
A complete, how-to guide on making stunning trivets, coasters, and wall plaques while offering a fresh and modern twist on traditional fretwork Features 3 step-by-step projects and 27 contemporary designs of peace signs, butterflies, flowers, mandalas, and other intricate scroll saw patterns Also included is insightful information on wood selection and size, blank preparation, blade selection, expert tips, and a gallery of completed designs Author Charles Hand is a talented designer and award-winning scroller, and a regular and well-received contributor for Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine
The ultimate scroll saw beginner's guide to hone your scrolling skills to perfection. Practice a specific technique in each of 25 skill-building chapters, and then use that skill to make an attractive project. As you progress, each chapter builds upon the previous skills you've already learned. By the time you've completed the book, you'll be ready to tackle any scroll saw project with experience and confidence. This new third edition provides an objective guide to all of the new scroll saw models available in today's market, updated to include information on new scroll saw manufacturers.
Making a piece of wood move is fun, but making it tell time is truly amazing! Inside this book, you’ll find ingenious plans for creating awesome wooden machines that actually move and keep time. These working wooden wonders might just be the most enjoyable projects you ever build in your shop. Wooden gear clocks are not only fascinating to watch, but can be surprisingly accurate timepieces. Just don’t expect atomic precision—after all, they’re modeled on 17th-century technology! But as you build these scroll saw clocks you’ll use all of the basic principles that still govern mechanical clocks today. Six well-illustrated step-by-step scroll saw projects are arranged by skill level from beginner to advanced, and full-sized scroll saw patterns are attached to the book in a handy pouch. With a little perseverance, you’ll soon be ticking along happily with your own wooden clockworks. All you have to do is build them, wind them up, and let them run—no batteries required.
The author of the bestselling "Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw" returns to offer her creative spin on box projects. She's surveyed the most popular boxes in woodworking and shows crafters how to make bandsaw-style boxes, jewelry boxes, and lidded boxes on the scroll saw. Includes 29 beautiful and creative designs for boxes.
Wood(R) magazine has gathered scrollsawers' finest techniques and projects in a pattern collection that any woodworker will treasure. Take the 80 patterns of animals, autos, birds, buildings, people, and places, and either follow the projects exactly as shown, incorporate the designs into a different piece, or do some mixing and matching. There's plenty of technical advice, too.
"Terrific, everything a book should be."--"Fine Woodworking." "To know more about scroll saws...this book is the one."--"The Mallet." "Excellent. Expands and improves [on] his 1986 classic. Belongs in all public libraries."--"Library Journal. ""Everything you would possibly want to know about the history, operation and cutting techniques."--"Woodshop News."
Whether you are a beginner or have been scrolling for years, you'll be inspired by this collection of 60 of the best projects from the pages of Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts.