i work in a woodshop for a frame company. we make frames for, and frame art for frame shops, galleries and museum's in new york city. one of my girlfriends at work had a scroll saw and she brought in a fretwork picture of a bear that she had made for someone and i was amazed! i had never seen any fretwork before...that was where i first got interested.
i was making bowed psalteries out of scrap wood and another friend who wanted a psaltery asked me if she could take the face of her's home and have her husband scroll something for the sound hole....this was the result:
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after that i was hooked! i just had to have a scrollsaw!
an elderly gent at church used to give me a christmas present every year...something he had made out of wood. that christmas he told me to come out to his car, he had something for me...it was a scrollsaw! he had 2 and knew i wanted one, so he gave one to me.
it was an old craftsman...only took the pin-end blades but i was happy
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a couple months later when my husband saw me struggling to work with that old saw, went out and bought me a new craftsman and that is what i've been using every since....someday i hope to get a more expensive one.
i had it set up in my office at our house where it was warm and i could use it whenever i wanted to...since then we've moved and i'm now set up in our basement where the woodstove keeps me toasty warm in the winter and eats all my mistakes too LOL!
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because of my job, i have all the scrap wood i could ever want...maple, poplar, padouk, wenge, rosewood, mahogany, ash, oak, walnut...etc.
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