This book is compiled from all the best projects found in the pages of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine. Fox Chapel Publishing publishes illustrated non-fiction books, magazines, patterns, and videos for craft, hobby, and do-it-yourself enthusiasts. We inspire and inform readers who enjoy woodworking, needlework, pyrography, home and garden, cooking, outdoor recreation, coloring, Zentangle®, kids crafts, and more. Fox Chapel publishes two magazines, Woodcarving Illustrated and Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts, and more than 1200 book titles. Our imprints include Design Originals, IMM Lifestyle Books, Creative Homeowner, and Heliconia Press. Publishers Weekly has named Fox Chapel Publishing a “Top 10 Fastest Growing Independent Publisher” four times since 2006.
BIG BOOK OF SCROLL SAW WOODWORKING, from the editors of Scroll Saw
Woodworking & Crafts magazine, features more than 60 projects and
techniques for fretwork, intarsia and other scroll saw crafts. The
projects include basic patterns for the beginner, unusual puzzles
and toys, baskets and boxes, a chess set and keepsake portraits.
Contributing scroll saw artists include John A. Nelson, Gary
MacKay, Ron Brown, Kathy Wise and Rick Hutcheson. The book is a
great reference not only for its detailed patterns, but for its
tips, techniques and step-by-step instructions.
Fox Chapel does it again; here is a great book for those with
aspirations of being a scroll sawyer. An excellent compilation! New
to scroll sawing? This is the book for you! Are you an advanced or
highly skilled scroll sawyer? This is also the book for you. The
Big Book is rife with great ideas and explicit plans for the scroll
saw. From simple but elegant Christmas ornaments to the more
complex intarsia and segmentation scroll work, you will love this
book. Don't think of scrolling in just wood, think beyond the
traditional. How about making tiles from Corian or other synthetic
materials, the Big Book shows how it's done. Compound cutting is
explained so as a beginner you can achieve very complex looking
projects like a chess set or holiday decorations. As a skilled
artisan you will appreciate some of the more complex designs that
will get your creative juices flowing.
Twenty-five scroll saw experts, sixty scroll saw projects - this is
a scrollers dream come true. For a book that is largely made up of
the contributions from twenty-five scroll saw experts, the Big Book
of Scroll Saw Woodworking hangs together remarkably well. The
editors have done an admirable job of pulling it together into a
coherent book. The book focuses on the scroll saw and its many
uses. The introductory sections are good and to the point. They
cover topics like selecting materials, working with patterns,
scroll saw tips and blade selection. The book begins with the
simplest of projects and moves through projects of increasing
difficulty to very advanced fretwork projects, along with working
with metals and synthetics like Corian . Each project comes with a
brief introduction including suggestions for materials and tools,
tips on the use of the saw, planning the project, finishing, and so
on. The accompanying photographs and exploded diagrams are very
helpful and scaled down plans are provided. The book includes
sixty-plus projects which range from fretwork, intarsia and
segmentation, inlay and relief, baskets and boxes, puzzles and
toys, portraits, and working with non-woods like Corian and metal.
Among the projects that can be made are Christmas tree ornaments,
decorative boxes, a chess set, earrings, salt & pepper shakers,
note cards, a corner shelf, and animal and human portraits. If
there is one thing that I would have liked to have seen in the
book, it would be a discussion of the selection of the scroll saw
itself. Having once had an inexpensive scroll saw and now having a
better one, they are like night and day. My current saw is a joy to
use, while my first one would make some of these projects much more
challenging than they need be. That quibble aside, for the reader
wishing to explore the world of scroll sawing, this is a good place
to start.
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