The People’s Choice and Editor’s Choice winners and a gallery of all of the entries in the fretwork portrait category Simply Wood | Wildlife Projects | Natural Wooden Toys | Woodburning with Style People’s Choice Rust-O-Ration by Kerry Hallam, Sumter, S.C. “I came […]
Presenting the winners of the 2011 Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Best Project Design Contest The winners of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts’s annual Best Project Design Contest were announced in the Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Fall 2011 (Issue 44). Each year, the entries impress the editors with beautiful […]
Complete video series demonstrates how to take good photos of your work Sucessful Etsy.com shop owners and Fox Chapel Publishing authors Roshaan Ganief and Erin Freuchtel-Dearing, who shared their stories in Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Fall 2011 (Issue 44), cite good photography as the number one way to increate […]
Use specialty paints to make attractive and functional designs Every family needs a place, like a chalkboard to write notes to each other; here are a few ideas to get you started. In Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Fall 2011 (Issue 44) L. Kim Braa demonstrated how to create and […]
Add a touch of elegance to your yard with this spectacular 30″-high feeder Elegant, inexpensive and easy to make. Could there be features more appealing in a scrolled project? The ivy leaf scrollwork and the all-white painted finish for this birdhouse, which appeard in Scroll Saw Workshop Summer 2004 (Issue […]
Beautiful handmade furniture can be built for any size doll In the Summer 2011 issue of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts (SSW43), Kirk Ratajesak offers patterns for fretwork wooden doll furniture. Rolf Beuttenmuller cut the chair and quilt rack from cherry and the table from oak. Every little girl loves […]
Working in your shop can be hard on your hands. Dry weather wicks the moisture out of your hands and solvents dry your skin even more. The last thing you need when working with power tools is slippery hands. O’Keeffe’s Working Hands salve does a great job of moisturizing your […]
The Drill Doctor model DDSB now includes a new system to sharpen spade bits. To sharpen twist bits, the unit features a diamond wheel combined with an easy-to-use system to properly align the bit. This system works with high-speed steel, titanium, and cobalt bits that range in size from 3/32″ […]
Learn the correct way to hold and maneuver a scroll saw blank In the Summer 2011 issue of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts (SSW43), long-time scroll saw author and instructor Joanne Lockwood shares a few techniques for beginners. Joanne has always felt the best way to learn scroll saw techniques […]
Delbert Short uses his imagination and ingenuity to create elaborate contraptions In the Summer issue of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts (SSW43, available in April) lifelong woodworker Delbert “Del” Short shows off what he likes to make the most: elaborate gismos, gadgets, getups, contraptions, and whatchamacallits—for lack of better terms. That’s because […]
