what do I use to create a name on a box top with a design

[Allen levine]

I want to make a trinket box for my granddaughter...scroll fret work her name in a nice font in walnut with a maple background for the top of the box. maybe zebra wood for box....I want to incorporate some woodworking with some fret work.....I really havent done much or any fret work...would love to try. I can print out her name julietta in a great font and on paper to glue to wood to cut, but I wanted the top to have alot of nice coutout fret work with a nice looking framework around her name not sure If IM clear...any help is greatly appreciated

[Wichman]

The easiest way would be to accept a small design change, the name on the front of the box instead of the top.

Go to Steve Good's site and search for "Christmas fretbox" after printing use liquid paper to erase the word Christmas and replace it with your granddaughter's name.

Otherwise you will have to learn a graphics program, more involved but you can do so much more.

[ScrollerGuy]

There is a series of videos on this site called "Making Scroll Saw Patterns with Inkscape".  Lesson 7 shows how to design a Trinket Box. It doesn't have any text but could be easily modified. Steve Good has a video called "Editing fonts in Inkscape for use on the Scroll Saw" that shows how to modify text to make it scrollable.

Learning to use free programs like Inkscape and Gimp does take some time, but in the long run it will save you time and allow you to design anything you can think up. 

Good Luck!

[Allen levine]

My computer skills are poor

pretty funny that my son is an it engineer

snd he was designing websites at 13 years old

Not sure where he got it all from and if he had any free time he'd help me so I'm just going to have to wait for him to help

He works full time has a second job handling a local school districts computer stuff and teaches defensive driving courses

he works like 1000 hours a week but doesn't seem to mind and I hate to burden him with helping me