Customer Reviews

Pumpkin Masters CD Pattern Maker

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With many Pumpkin Master's products on the market this one has very little to offer that can't be gotten from many of the other sets the company produces. What sets this set apart is the CD Pattern Maker. Now granted it does provide many of the classic designs you can get in various Pumpkin Masters pattern books so you're already to start carving simply by printing out a pre-made pattern.

But if your looking for your own design, this this set should be of some use to you. Some being the key word which is what causes this set to get such a low rating. You get to work with predesigned images to create a larger image or scene. Images are divided into seven categories: eyes, noses, mouths, miscellaneous, scenes, alphabet, and patterns. Patterns, of course, are the predesigned patterns on the CD but can be "edited" by adding elements from the other categories. Eyes, noses, and mouths each give you ten designs to choose from for making a face. Miscellaneous offers up eyebrow, ears, earings, and other items that may be worn such as a witches hat. Alphabet is pretty straight forward, just letters numbers, and a few punctuation marks in case you wish to write something on the pumpkin. Scenes is actually probably going to be the most useful item for making a design from. It allows you to choose things such as a full moon, a cauldron, ghosts, bats, clouds, hands rising from the grave, etc. for your design.

The biggest problem I find with the set is that you have to use the predesigned images that are on the CD. I have yet to be able to find a way to add in extra images in order to increase the possible patterns.

As for the saws, scrapper, and poker, all work beautifully if you know how to properly use them and don't try forcing things to do what they are not designed to do.

I got this on sale for $2. This was very fun to do with my Daughter. We had a blast making different patterns, and we even added our own last name to some of them! Well worth the money!

I have a lot of Pumpkin Master items. I got this cd rom because I thought it would have pretty much all the same stencils that I keep purchasing-so that I could just print them when I want. I grow my own pumpkins and like to carve several.

I am a little disappointed that it does NOT have that many pre-made stencils on it. That being said, you can put in your pumpkin dimensions and use an assortment of eyes, noses, mouths etc. to create your own jack o'lantern. Or you can make your own statement with the alphabet it also includes.

The tools are not that well made, but work just fine as long as you are careful with them. I'd keep them away from kids-I had them out at a party and the kids pretty much destroyed them sawing stems and whatnot.

If you'd like a more detailed stencil and or a better selection of them-just buy the kits at the store. But this is still a fun kit for the money.

I am so thankful that I only paid $2 for this when it was sale. It is pretty much worthless at carving anything except a very tiny, very thin pumpkin. The scooper works great, but so does a spoon. The carvers bent and snapped fairly quickly. I couldn't even get them into the pumpkin, even though I carved the inside down to way less than an inch thick. I had to use a knife to get started, then the saw, then a knife again, then the saw to even it out. I could have just saved my money and used a knife and spoon.

The CD has some cute patterns, but they're nothing that you couldn't find elsewhere online for free. I really don't recommend wasting your money on this.