Scrollsaw Magazine

[Rolf]

On 9/21/2019 at 11:55 AM, Karl S said:

I have had a subscription for two years and I have not found anything in the magazine that I have cut. I guess I am a weird person, I don't like portraits or frilly fretwork, Like I said it's just how I am. I probably will not renew my subscription.

OK Karl you have piqued my interest. What do you cut?  What kind of projects would you like to see.? 

Don and Ray, Not sure how much influence I have but I will send a note to the editors about putting a letters to the editor back into the magazine. 

But in the mean time feel free to send an e-mail   To  e-mail editors@scrollsawers.com

 

Let me add this. There are several folks that are very negative about the contents of SSWWC, it reminds me of some of some of our club members that bash every thing we try o do or suggest, but if asked for suggestions or ideas to make things better, God forbid you ask them to step up and run the club it is always total silence.

MY POINT is if you don't see what you want Please send them an email with ideas they will listen. It is not easy writing and publishing a magazine and the editors are not clairvoyant they can't read our minds to see what we want. 

And yes I have written articles (thanks to the editing team they have been readable) and I am the current president of  our local scroll saw club and that is a blast but not easy trying to keep all skill levels entertained.

I guess this is my week for rants. If any of you are in the New York Long island area Our woodworking club is having its annual show Nov 9-10 At the old Bethpage restoration Village. You can come and say hello or yell at me politely.

Edited November 3, 2019 by Rolf

[kmmcrafts]

My biggest complaint with the magazine was just trying to print the patterns on my little printer scanner.. Then I realized I had a duh moment when someone mentioned to take it to a copier and copy the whole thing.. cut it up and scan the smaller pieces of the patterns I want / need.. When i first got those magazines I couldn't figure out why the heck they'd put patterns on both sides of the papers.. what if you want the pattern on both sides, LOL

I intend to resubscribe when money gets a little less tight.. Also realized they do have digital disc for past issues as sets.. I really like to have all of those.. I always enjoyed looking through then but there was a time they had an awful lot of ads and very little of anything else.. maybe I'm thinking of one of the other magazines that used to be out there..

[Oracle]

I'm new to scroll sawing and have only seen (and bought) the two most recent issues.  I cut the all the halloween projects and the toy puzzles from the fall one and loved them.  So far I haven't cut anything from the winter one and may do the christmas tree.  Intarsia is way beyond my current skill level but looks very interesting.  The detailed fretwork art doesn't look like something I'd ever be interested in doing, but it's clearly a major part of the hobby and belongs in the magazine.   

I did find the Winter issue unpressive, but from my novice point of view, the only thing I would complain about across both issues are the projects in the winter magazine that are clearly paper-craft projects.  I can't imagine why anyone would want to go to the trouble of acquiring or making paper-thin wood stock and then using a scroll saw to cut those out.

One comment I would make is this publisher seems to not want to ship to non-American addresses.  I'm in Canada and even if I took the 2 year subscription it would still be more per issue than buying it on the newsstand.   I was interested in picking up some of their $2 back issues, but they wanted $26 shipping to Canada on 8 issues, which would make it nearly $8 CDN per issue, so almost as expensive as just buying the new issues at cover price.

I do wish they'd put all the patterns in the main part of the magazine.   It's very hard to scan from that huge page and even for something larger than the physical magazine it would be easier to scan the magazine page with a shrunken pattern and enlarge the file for printing to get the proper pattern size.  What I've had to resort to is taking a picture of the pattern pullout with a digital camera but it's very hard to not distort the pattern that way.

[Woodrush]

i have been subscribing for over 2 years and i think i have cut at least one project from every issue. i dont do intarsia but i still like reading about it. one day i would like to try and its nice to know i have some instruction in these magazines

[OCtoolguy]

I like the magazine!

I enjoy reading the magazine!

I will continue to buy the magazine!