Tutorials

Create A Dog Portrait Pattern in Photoshop – pt 1 of 7

February 23, 2009

There has been interest in the Scroll Saw Village forums on how to create a scroll saw pattern from a photograph. While there are hundreds of ways to design a scroll saw pattern, I share one technique that I use when it comes to difficult patterns. I’m using Adobe Photoshop in this screen cast. But [...]

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Homemade Spray Booth

February 20, 2009

My wife hates it when I spray finish my projects indoors.  She doesn’t like the smell and she worries about what’s floating around in the air.  Most of the time, I have to wait for her to go shopping.  Then I bolt downstairs with my spray can in one hand and an arm full of [...]

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Cutting Compound Christmas Ornaments

January 29, 2009

This video series was brought to my attention by Steve Good’s blog Scroll Saw Workshop.  It was so wonderful, I had to share it as well. Dick Sader of Northwest Indiana Woodworkers Association has put together a great three-part video tutorial on how to cut compound Christmas ornaments.  He goes through each step with detail.  [...]

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Home Made Sanding Mop

January 9, 2009

The price of tools and supplies can add up pretty quick.  Especially time saving tools such as sanding mops.  Steve from Scroll Saw Workshop has a great tutorial provided by one of his readers, Rick.  He provides step-by-step instructions on how to create your own sanding mop.  It looks Rick’s version of the sanding mop [...]

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Easy Book Ends

December 9, 2008

Here’s a fun project for that little reader in your life. This bookend project is provided by Sabrina of Seeds of the Heart blog. This is a great afternoon project that turns out really neat. The instructions are pretty straight forward. For the letters, choose your favorite font in a graphics program or word processor. [...]

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Layered Deer Mountain Scene

December 1, 2008

Here’s a great layered deer mountain scene pattern provided by GAbaptist. Perfect for that outdoor enthusiast in your life. The pattern is hosted on Bukisa, which offers a unique interface distributing documents as shown below. Unfortunately, Bukisa doesn’t offer a download option But you can easily print the pattern by choosing the Print option under [...]

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Wooden USB Thumb Drive

November 4, 2008

Here’s a great project for that tech junkie in your life. This wood enclosed USB thumb drive (a mini hard drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer) can easily be made with nothing more than a scroll saw and a sander. Matt Burns of CrunchGear.com put together this great tutorial, showing you [...]

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Hooked

October 28, 2008

A while back, I wrote about Frank’s Wood Shop and his video demonstration of a windmill project. Well, Frank came through once again with a very detailed set of videos, documenting the cutting and finishing of a bass portrait. So, grab some popcorn and enjoy the videos. After you’re done, be sure to stop by [...]

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How To Listen To SSG Podcast

September 17, 2008

First, I want to thank all of you for the kind words and encouragement. There are a lot of you just as excited about this podcast as I am, which is quite a relief. I was afraid no one would listen! Hopefully we’ll be able to discuss a lot of great scrolling topics in the [...]

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Classic Lath Art Progression Pictures

September 10, 2008

I recently wrote about Rod Skramstad from Classic Lathart. He has updated his website to include a series of progress pictures that turned out quite nice. Although not necessarily a tutorial, it does give us some insight on how he goes about putting together one of his lath art paintings. Rod has a series of [...]

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