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General Category => Introduce Yourself. => Topic started by: Huntersville on March 08, 2013, 10:03:49 pm
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I enjoy working with wood and have just started playing with a scroll saw. I view Steves videos and they have been helpful. I took his advice and bought some flying dutcman blades and they are better than some other I bought.
Now where do I start to gain some confidence. I cut out a name plate the other day and it didn't turn out too bad for the first time. Any ideas where I should start or ideas for patterns to cut out.
Thanks for any help.
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Hello and welcome to the forum. I'm Julie from Texas. Glad to have you. Scrolling just takes practice. The easiest way to get comfortable is to take a scrap board and draw some lines on it. Straight, wavy, whatever and try to cut on the lines. As far as patterns - pick something that interests you - there are tons of patterns on steve's blog, most of which are fairly simple. Take your time and enjoy.
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Hi ,welcome to the forum, I'm Keith from Cornwall U.K.
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Welcome to the Scrollsaw Forum . Hi I'm Russ from Florida, I am glad you found us. A day without saw dust is like a day without sunshine. :)
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Welcome! I am Tony,aka,Toneman from Paris, Texas.
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Hello and welcome, I'm Pete from up in Minnesnowta.
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Greetings from South Dakota (freezing rain today). Welcome to the madness and addiction.
Al
I agree with Julie - practice on just about anything. Pick some simple patterns to start with and press on. You will find the confidence grows as you go.
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Welcome Al! Gary from Iowa along the Mississippi. We all have advice to give and are always willing to give an answer even if it is the wrong answer. ;D
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G'day, welcome to the forum. I'm Marg from a very hot Australia
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Hello and welcome! Just start that's the fun part!
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Welcome. This is a very active group with lots of suggestions.
I'm new to this as well - since January. I've really enjoyed looking at the range of things the scroll saw can do - lettering, ornaments, portraits, compound cuts, intarsia, ... it seems like every time I look there's something different. My latest kick is baskets and bowls.
You might start by looking for seasonal things to make so you can give them away - otherwise your house fills up pretty quickly. St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, family birthdays, anniversaries, yadayadayada. Have fun.
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Welcome to the forum Joe. I'm Al from Southern Calif. If you have any questions there are lots of people here willing to try and answer them.
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:D I'm pretty new to scrolling my self. I go for the harder ones and if I mess up I look for something easier. (that's just me) My first one was very simple and made from a dresser drawer bottom that fell apart. I got a bunch of confidence and said ah heck this isn't hard. Went for harder ones posted a few on here and was told didn't look like a beginner. That gave me a bigger head so I went and bought more expensive wood and went to town. Found out real fast as a beginner that different woods cut different and need to slow down or speed up on some. I (as a beginner) take you're time even if you mess up you can usually fix it, Don't watch a video where it takes the guy in the video 10 sec's and expect the same results. I've been doing it about 4-5 months and I'm a slow poke especially on costly wood and so far have only done about 10 projects from simple to more advanced. Have fun
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Welcome to the forum :) I am Mahendra from India , practice , practice and some more practice is the key word :) The friendly community is there to help you - not to worry 8)
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Welcome to the fun. I'm Tommy from the Los Angeles aea. Like others have said, practice practice practice. I'm fairly new to scroll sawing too and the more I cut the more confident I become. If you have any questions just ask. There are a lot of people here willing to help!
Tommy T
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Welcome from Cornwall, ON. Lots to learn from the members here. Their advice is always spot on. Enjoy.
Mike
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Hello Huntersville,
I'm Marcel. welcome from the Netherlands.
I would start with some of the key chains from Steve.
you find them in the website from Steve (http://www.stevedgood.com/setupKeychain.exe) with font mychain
you can vary in size, start at 110 or even bigger.
when your skills improve you can reduce the size, I like the 85 the best.
or the scrollsaw pattern printer (http://www.stevedgood.com/setup.exe)
or the stencil printer (http://www.stevedgood.com/StencilPrintersetup7.zip) from steve
personally I like the key chain the best and your friends and family will love the gift!
but they like any personal gift with their name.
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welcome to the forum i'm Todd from NL. Canada
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Welcome to the forum, I'm Rocky from North Dakota