scroll saw lesson 2

[Dragonkort]

well connor did nt get to cut anything untill a little after noon.The reason being even though we praticed putting in and taking off the blade yesterday when we went to tighten the tension it just wouldnt tighten up the blade enough to acutally cut the wood.... spent a few hours trying to figure out why but couldnt soo we got the other small saw out. That one didnt work out either poor boy was so paticent.  but he did get to cut some wood today.   i just let him use my saw... The lesson went great once we finally got to it. lol  The boy seems to be a natral, at least at cutting stright lines!! he only wavered over the line on one cut...the rest of them he did perfect.  we"re taking a short break right now and then we will see how he does on wavy lines. he asked if wed be able to do a project this weekend but i had to tell him i didint know...it will depend on how long it takes him to learn to feed the wood into the blade and be able to stay on the lines.. im hoping to do some wavy and squggly lines in about half an hour then well see if he can cut out a square... he was so excited about cutting the wood he asked if he could show his parents tomorrow when they come to pick him up. lol im going to have spike go to harbor fraight and see how much there small scroll saws are and i think i'll pick one up for him....it will be his christmas present but he wont know that till christmas when i give it to him. lol so he'll still be learning on the saw he'll get for christmass  and now grandmas off to take a little nap befor he gets lesson 2 on scrolling wavy and curved lines. 

[Foxfold]

Aww, Bless You.  Good Grandma's are hard to find. He'll remember your 'lessons' for the rest of his life.  

[meflick]

Good you are working with him and he is interested. Don’t worry so much about him staying “perfect” on the lines. As many here have said, nobody knows where the line was when the pattern is removed. You don’t want hi, to lose interest, so if he wants to cut a “project” find him some simple ones and let him cut. Having something tangible to see and show will keep hi, interested much more then practicing lines of any kind trying to stay “perfect”. Perfection is not important, it’s him enjoying it, having fun with it, and spending that time with grandma building memories that he will have for a lifetime. As he does more projects, he will get better and. I’ve on to more complex things to cut naturally. (I say this as a person who suffers from that “perfection” problem myself . I’m getting better about it.) Let him learn early that it doesn’t have to be perfect, just “good enough”.