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.