This compendium of wooden-box projects makes this high-end art form accessible to scrollers of all skill levels. An overview of tools, wood, and blade choices provides fundamental information to get any scroller started. Step-by-step instructions for jewelry and music boxes demonstrate box-making basics that apply to all scroll-saw models. Designs for fret, inlay, and relief lids and compound handles provide an elaborate array of decorative choices. An additional 23 projects are detailed with ready-to-use patterns and finished photographs from multiple angles.
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Diana Thompson is a pattern designer and woodworker and is the author of 3D Patterns for the Scroll Saw, Compound Christmas Ornaments for the Scroll Saw, Compound Scroll Saw Creations, and Wooden Chess Sets You Can Make. She is a frequent contributor to Scroll Saw Workshop and is widely respected for her innovative scroll saw designs. She lives in Theodore, Alabama.
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Lots of Fun Projects Here!,
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This review is from: Custom Wooden Boxes for the Scroll Saw: Step-By-Step Instructions and Detailed Plans for 30 Plus Innovative Projects (Paperback)
This is typical Diana Thompson, with a twist. Yes, there is compound cutting - but she also takes us through simple but elegant box making, inlay, and relief cutting. These boxes come out really great, and the patterns and instructions are clear and complete. If there is one complaint, it is that Diana must have access to a really good lumber supplier, because many of her wood choices are not available at all at ordinary wood providers. The designs come out well with just Home Depot-type woods, though, so it shouldn't discourage anyone. I love this book.
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Great book and lots of fun.,
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I bought this book and also Gary Mackays' book, Box-Making Projects for the Scroll Saw at the same time. Even though there are some cool projects in his book that I will build, Diana Thompsons book is much more artistic. You can really see the difference between a mans point of view and a womans. I like Dianas projects much more. One point to mention though, Her box projects are all lift off top boxes. I would recommend this book.
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This is a good book. I have to admit that I was expecting a little more variety in terms of design and method than what's here. It may be that my expectations were the problem, though; this is a scrollsawing book, not a woodworking book, so the range of methods is necessarily going to be a little narrower.
That said, the designs are all tasteful and of high quality. There's nothing here of the "why would anybody bother to make THAT?" variety. And the instructions are very clear and very accessible to the beginner--just what readers have come to expect from its author, who has taught so many scrollers through her books and articles. I bought this book as part of a bundled discount and have no regrets.
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small margin around the pattern, glue lid underside, rotary tool fitted, cutting box sides, lower box edge, center line intact, lower lid edges, hand with sandpaper, cutting lid, cut the inside lines, round over bit, lid sections, innermost line, scroll saw, pattern sides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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