austins93 Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 I am a current student in a carpentry program at a technical college in Wisconsin. I am far more interested in the cabinet and furniture building than the construction section of the course. Over my winter break, I discovered the universe of scrolling and used the gift cards I got as presents to the big box store and bought a mid level saw and havent been off it in two weeks. I have found Steve Good with http://www.scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/ to be a very good influence on my scrolling and have so far only cut patterns from his website. I am very interested in this hobby so that is why i have come to this forum to learn more about what you can do with a scroll saw. Creations by Cody 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Steve's web sight is very helpful...take a look at some of the patterns on this sight too...there are many out there in cyber world but also investigate the Scrollsaw village university and try your own creativity to make patterns..Gals to see that you enjoy scrolling like I do. post some of your work here, we would like to see some of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creations by Cody Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 (edited) Welcome to the fun! He has some great patterns. Edited January 9, 2013 by Creations by Cody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton717 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 welcome to the village, and to your new addiction. check out the pattern librry here lots of great patterns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 G'day Austin, welcome to the Village. I'm Marg from Australia. Scrolling is an addiction beware. Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Welcome AUSTIN! you don'tnow how big a favor you did yourself by finding us.Anything and everything you'll ever want to know about scrolling is here at a click of the mouse!Your going to hit the nail on the head the first time and everytime with our time saving helpfull knowedge.We've been there done that and you can learn from our mistakes much more quickly than by trial and error.You'll end up being a great assett to us to with all you know and can share.Jump on in and have a ball ,were here to help you all-ways.Thanks for joining! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrybritner Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Welcome Austin, I can only echo what has already been said...do yourself a big favor and take the time to do the courses that Travis has put together in the Village University..the course is free and Gimp and Inkscape are also free so you have nothing to lose and so much to gain. One thing I will say is that the higher the quality of the orginal photo, the easier it is to pull a pattern from it... There is plenty of free patterns on this sight and more is added daily..I also cut a lot of Steves patterns as well as patterns by Arpop...they have an excellent pattern of John Wayne...as far as paid sights I think most here will agree the best pattern designer in the business is Sue Mey....my profile picture is a cutting of one of Sue Mey' patterns "Tiger In The Leaves." Mikes workshop is a good place to shop for blades and drill bits.... I learned this art by trial and error, mostly error which is not only time consuming but expensive as well. As Kevin says you have found a "village" of artist that are more than willing to share their expierence in our art form...don't be shy about asking for advice.... Again welcome may you come to love this art form as much as the family of artist here at the village... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kardar2 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Austin since you go to school for extra credit you look at the university and Travis has a lot of cool Videos on how to do stuff . have fun and please no spit balls in class please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eftwendy Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 My husband and I just gave each other a Craftsman scroll saw for our 43rd wedding anniversary. We are in the middle of building our dream house. We are shingling it and getting it dried in this week. Then we will be finishing each room, one at a time. We are doing everything ourselves. He has built cabinets before. I am a tiler. I got a router for Christmas. I am looking for ways to use the router and scroll saw to build whatever we will need. It's a country farmhouse. I found this site and it seems like a good place to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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