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Custom Wooden Music Boxes for the Scroll Saw

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Custom Wooden Music Boxes For The Scroll Saw is a pattern guide for intermediate to advanced woodworkers seeking to create intricate and beautiful wooden music boxes. A brief "getting started" section walks the reader through such woodworking and scroll saw techniques as cutting the frame, assembling turntable projects, applying the proper finish, and more. The bulk of Custom Wooden Music Boxes For The Scroll Saw is devoted to full-size patterns ideal for creating over 45 music box projects. Sample themes from the patterns include angels, horses, kids' music boxes, holiday music boxes, romantic music boxes, and Victorian music boxes. Each pattern has numerous notes, clarifying tips, and assembly suggestions. An excellent project manual for creating heartfelt keepsakes.

Though the patterns seem daunting at first glance, once started they seem to go together well. I opted making a trinket box for my wife for Christmas rather than a music box, due to time constraints. Needless to say, she was extremely pleased, and was unable to see all my "minor" mistakes. Definitely not for the novice scroller - but that's just my opinion. Overall, a great book with some fascinating patterns.

Overall, beautiful fretwork patterns. Some instructions could be a little clearer. I was happy with my purchase.

Only the first 12 pages have details on building music boxes, the rest are all patterns. You also don't have a photo of each completed box. Some only are line drawings and the photos are the size of a quarter, up in the corner of the page.

A good pattern book but not really for beginners. Page 188 is supposed to be the resources page with info on suppliers. It is an advertising page for the publisher in my copy.