New to Scroll sawing!

[jeffp123]

Hello everyone! I'm new to the scroll saw community and to scroll saws! I just bought my first saw this week. I am REALLY excited and REALLY BAD! I tryed to make a letter key chain and man is this hard! The saw kind of did what it wanted at times. oh well. I bit off a little more than I could chew for the first go at it. Practice, practice, practice I guess. Any suggestions or tips for a beginner will be greatly appreciated. Im really enjoying to youtube series "Creating Scroll Saw Portrait Patterns Using GIMP" Im great with the computer and hope to get better with the saw!!

Jeff

[Clayton717]

Hi Jeff welcome to the village. My tip would be what you said, practice, practice,practice. don't give up you'll get the hang of it and get better. save the projects you cut, to look back at the progress you make.

[jeffp123]

I used the blade that came with my scroll saw. Im thinking now that it may not be the blade I need for tight turns and curves. What size or type blades should I use?

[Clayton717]

I use both olsen and flying dutchman blades. Flying dutchman are my favorites and use the most.my go to sizes are the # 5 & 7 reverse scroll. I use those two sizes the most, but I do keep others around. there are several places online that sell both brands(and others) here are a couple - www.woodenteddybearonline.com

[jeffp123]

Thanks Clayton! I checked out your gallery and all I can say is WOW! I hope to be able to do work like that one day!

[amazingkevin]

Hi Jeff ,The #3an #5 blades are great ones to use.Slow down your machine to get good control and press down when scrolling to have full control of where your saw is going to cut.Scrolling is so much fun to do.Glad you found us and happy scrolling!

[captlucky]

hi Jeff the thing to remember is the more you cut the better it gets so just keep trying. my Favorite blade is the F/D # 5 ultra good luck

Ron