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Marvelous Wooden Maps

Marvelous Wooden Maps

Do you love map-related artwork as much as we do? Here are some fun ideas from around the web to get you started on your next project! Adapt them to make your own wooden maps of a favorite town or vacation spot.   Nautical: Scroll or carve a 3-D topographical […]

by March 6, 2018 Features
Pictured are Chuck Fleming of Toys for Tots, Claude Drevet, Terry Nicholson, Brian Beals, Cecil Schneider, and Amy Brannon-Hamby of Toys for Tots.

Club Donates 100 Puzzles to Toys for Tots

The Big Canoe Woodworkers Club started the festive season by giving big. On the first day of the annual Pickens County, Ga., Toys for Tots campaign, the club gave 100 handmade wooden puzzles to the program. Participants made the puzzles under the guidance of fellow member Brian Beals of Pickens […]

by November 14, 2017 Features, News
Garden of Innocence

Garden of Innocence

Organization provides dignified burial for abandoned babies By Kathleen Ryan “If no one grieves, no one will remember,” said Elissa Davey, the founder of Garden of Innocence, a nonprofit organization that provides dignified burials for abandoned babies. The California resident thought of the idea in 1998 after reading about a baby […]

by June 7, 2017 Features
Scrolling on the Job

Scrolling on the Job

Barrie Casement “saw” Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral in a unique way By Kathleen Ryan It’s a lifelong dream of mine and such a great honor to work on this prestigious building,” said master woodworker Barrie Casement of his work on St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. “Sometimes I have […]

by March 21, 2017 Features
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pinewood Derby

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pinewood Derby

By Bob Duncan & Mindy Kinsey It sounded like an easy project: we were asked to turn our Pinewood Derby magazine into a book featuring “fast and furious” speed secrets. With a few cosmetic changes, some new cars, and an update on the tools, we thought we could get it […]

by November 21, 2016 Features
Teacher Feature: Five Questions for Carole Rothman

Teacher Feature: Five Questions for Carole Rothman

The artist and author explains how frosting and a bad band saw led her to bowl making By Mindy Kinsey Carole Rothman’s bowls are colorful, glossy, silky smooth, and decorated with wonderful patterns. Her boxes are equally inspiring—some of them are cleverly designed to look like food and miniature furniture, […]

by December 23, 2015 Features
Club News: Giving the Gift of Time

Club News: Giving the Gift of Time

 Organizations make projects for charities By Kathleen Ryan Editor’s Note: Listed below are a few organizations whose charitable work we’ve shared with our readers. Send photos and a write-up on the good work your club is doing to Editors@scrollsawer.com. . .Orange County Scroll Saw Association: Since 2002 the Orange County Scroll Saw […]

by December 22, 2015 Community, Features, News
2015 Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Holiday Gift Guide

2015 Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Holiday Gift Guide

  Does your family always ask what to get you for whichever holiday you celebrate? Send them here to find a good selection of tools   guaranteed to keep you in the sawdust all year long!         Check out this John Nelson puzzle pack, available from PS Wood […]

by November 27, 2015 Features
Serving with a Saw

Serving with a Saw

By Kathleen Ryan Shirley Wagner, an 84-year-old Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration, lives a peaceful life in the small community of Medford, Wisc. Once she steps into her basement workshop, however, Sister Shirley really tears it up—with a scroll saw, that is. “I use routers, chop saws, radial arm saws, […]

by November 3, 2015 Features
Hun Brothers Build Toys for Homeless Children

Hun Brothers Build Toys for Homeless Children

For the past year, Hun School students Logan and Sam Leppo (Class of 2017) have been hard at work in their family workshop constructing handmade wooden toys to donate to local homeless children. The twin brothers are fourth generation woodworkers, and their passion for crafting is a tradition they wanted […]

by October 7, 2015 Features