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    I don't usually but, that is a good idea. Sometimes, if I use plywood I have to fill voids in the plywood.....(if it is cheap plywood) This is a great way to hide you used plywood. lol. Have a great day. JAN
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    AMAZING, JUST AMAZING.........JAN
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    very clever.......love them........JAN
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    FANTASTIC .................just love them. Good gob. JAN
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    Just what do you use it for?????? Texture????? Just HOW do you use it? When and why would you want to have snow??? I never heard of it ?????? ( I have lived a very sheltered life....Lol). jAN
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    Another way to reproduce this project would be to just make a paper copy of the photo (full size) and glue it to the wood and cut out. Quick and no painting...no mess. Cute project. What is DecoArt® Snow Writer Paint? JAN
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    JUST A NOTE...this method can be used when you use cheap plywood in place of good hardwood. .....painted edges hid the fact you used cheap plywood.....Lol. I had a friend make the large CHIMES OF NORMANDY clock and he painted the edges of ALL the pieces white. The clock was beautiful. JAN
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    An other suggestion to ADDING COLOR TO SCROLLING. I nice effect is to highlight the edges of a scroll-saw project. With the high cost of good hardwood today a good way to save $$ is to use cheap plywood. Prime and paint the front and back surfaces of a piece of plywood. Completely sand and finish like you usually do. Even apply a top clear-coat and re-sand. Glue the pattern to the front surface and glue a blank sheet of paper to the back surface. Cutout as usual using a fine blade. Paint the exposed edges a totally different color and let dry. Remove the paper pattern from the front surface and remove the blank sheet of paper from the back surface. Assemble and you'r done. This clock is an example this process.
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    ADD COLOR TO SCROLLING..........A trick I like to do is to glue the pattern to the front surface as usual....then glue a piece of blank paper to the BACK surface, Cut out as usual. Apply a coat of paint to all the EDGES, inside and outside with the pattern and paper still on. When the paint is dry, remove the pattern from the front and the blank paper from the back and lightly sand the front and back surfaces. All the edges, inside and outside will be colored and this really accent the ornament. Now, finish as you usually do with the mineral spirits and linseed oil, or whatever. This process works well with many other scroll saw projects besides ornaments. Try it. JAN
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    ADDING COLOR TO SCROLLING............... There is NO end to what you can do with this technique..... Draw YOUR artwork on a piece of white paper with felt tip colored pencils,......not messy paint. ( I can't paint). Make color copies of your "artwork" and glue the copy to the wood . Add a couple clear top coats, steel-wool a bit with #0000 and you're done. I like to add a thin coat of paste wax to give it a nice finished "feel". JAN
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    Barb...those are great! LOVE THEM. Easy huh? Keep experimenting...you will be surprised the end results .....Let us see your next designs. JAN Ray....Yes find the artwork first ....enlarge or reduce the size to suit and use the artwork for the pattern. (I usually cut the object out about 1/16" larger all around the artwork. I usually paint the edges of the project white. When you glue the artwork in place it all blends into the white edges and looks like you painted it. The paper will hardly be noticed. Try it.........JAN A few more ADDING COLLOR TO SCROLLING examples...............
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    TO FRANK EV GAWD, I have NO idea how to answer anyone's question. I am COMPUTER CHALLENGED . None of this make much sense to me. I have NO idea how to get in touch with FRANKEV ??????? If you can get your mailing address to me, I will send you the geese project to try. Adding color is a very simple quick process. ...even I can do it. lol JAN
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    HI, I have NO trade secrets...........You can get art work on the internet check out. CLIP ART and note what you are looking for. Example, CLIP ART - DOGS. You should get all kind of drawings of dogs. Make a copy of one you like and you have ready made artwork to use. You can get ideas from books or magazines.......I am not an artist at all, but I can sketch. I hate painting so I make a light pencil sketch on white paper and use felt tip colored pencils to color it. (Get a good set of color pencils, they work great and there is no mess or clean-up like with paint.) Then I make a color copy of my, "art work", cut it out and glue it to the scroll saw project. ( I usually paint the edges white first though.).
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    MY painting is not very good either.....that is the" beauty" of this process....you do NOT have to do any painting at all. The art work is included with the patten Just cut out the project like you usually do..........paint the edges (optional) and glue the provided art work to the surfaces.....when done, it LOOKS like you painted the project. Go back and study the photos above and you will see, it LOOKS like they were painted. The pull dog illustrates it best. Only painting required was the white edges. The paper art was glued on. Would you like to try one? Have a great day. JAN
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    What is this months challenge. ????? I'm ready! Lol. JAN
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    I just received a newly published puzzle book. It is titled, 20 MINUTE SCROLL SAW PUZZLES by Jaeheon Yun and published by Fox Chapel. Jaeheon is from South Korea. If you make puzzles and toys, I think you will really like this book. The puzzles are unique, different, they are simple, sweet and stackable. The puzzle designs are amazing and, the thing I really like about this book is these puzzles will make you smile. (How many woodworking books out there make you smile? ) Have a great day, JAN
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    To answer your question, No, I never found out who designed it. Most of the original clocks I have recorded throughout the years were designed in Italy round 1880, so I assume most of then designers are dead by now. Lol. Just think about how they cutout these beautiful clocks back then. Most people back then worked 6 days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day at a regular job and cut out of those clocks by hand or with a pedal scroll saw at night by the light of a wale-oil lamp. They used old cigar boxes for the wood. They glued the original paper patterns on the wood with a mixture of water and flower glue. They had no way to make a copy of the original pattern so they were all lost in the process. I really appreciate those original old clock designs and the scrollers who made them. AMAZING The most popular scroll saw clock of all time I think was the CHIMES OF NORMANDY. Plans are still available for it today. If you want an interesting project, try that one. I gave the one I made out of birds-eye maple to a friend and she lost it in a house fire. Happy scrolling, JAN
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    From The Pieces

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    A few years ago, I saw an ad for a very large auction in Boston. In the ad was a photograph of a beautiful, unusual, scroll saw clock. It had a minimum starting bid of $500.00. I just had to have it so on the day of the auction, I got up very early and drove all the way to Boston from New Hampshire. It was a 3 1/2 hour drive. The auction was held in a very large room with many items to be auctioned off. I walked around the room two or three times and could NOT find the clock. I finally asked an attendant where it was. (Real men NEVER ask for directions) He told me it was completely destroyed on the flight in from Hawaii. He told me they built a box around it to try to protect it but somehow it was destroyed. He brought me over to a table in the far corner of the room where they had put all the pieces. The pieces were in three large ziplock bags with a photograph of what the clock DID look like. Most of the pieces were the size of a half-dollar coin. A few a little larger. I was thinking, I still want it and surely NO ONE in their right mind would want it, so I would be able to get it for almost nothing. When the bidding finally came up the pieces were brought out. The bidding started at $50.00. Believe it or not, there was another "clock-nut" and HE wanted it as much as I did. The bidding went up over $270.00, but, I won the bid. I am positive, everyone there thought I was completely out of my mind to spend that much for three bags of pieces and a photograph. I took the three bags and photograph home and set up two card tables side by side and laid out all the pieces. It was like putting together a very large puzzle. As I assembled the individual pieces I glued them together as best I could. After three or four weeks I had most all the individual pieces put back together. (I had to guess at a few) I took the individual glued pieces and drew each one out on paper. The only original pieces were good enough to save were the ones that formed the round head that supported the clock movement... everything else had to be remade. After a few weeks, it all came together. Of all the clock designs I have copied and recorded, this clock is, by far, my favorite and I think one of the most beautiful scroll saw clocks ever designed. Written by John Nelson. Reprinted with permission from the author.
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    I hope I am doing this right......I am computer challenged. For the past few years I have been developing a method of adding details and color to scroll-saw projects. The method is not new as Fisher-Price Toy Company used this method to add detail and color to their toys in the 40"s and 50"s before plastic. I would like to find 5 or 6 scrollers (of any level) that would interested in trying this method and tell us your opinion. I would like to know, what you think, if you liked the process and the results or not, if you would do other projects using this method and if you had any suggestions or ideas how to improve it. If you are interested, I would be happy to send the first 5 or 6 scrollers free, full size patterns, required art work and instructions to complete one add color to scrolling project. Just choose one of the project below and send me your mailing address. You are not under any obligation what so ever. If you do try it, please let us all know what you think. Thank you. JAN. my email is: [email protected]
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    How did you apply the red color? You might want to try the ADDING COLOR TO SCROLLING method???? Travis added instructions. I think you might like it??????
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    love it
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    I am but don't tell anyone.......................... Lol
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    It is VERY difficult to create a compound cut project .......I have tried many times and ended up with animals with two heads and 6 legs........Lol. Dianna Thompson is a genius at this. Check out her name on the web to find her work and books with Fox.
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    great job.......love it.
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    I knowI am late but I just joined the end of April and just figured out how to add photos I THINK????? Lol Here is my late Easter project. It is an easter basket and the bunny is standing on a basket. Another example of adding color to scrolling...the only painting was to the edges of the bunny. Artwork was glued to the front, back and around the basket. HAPPY EASTER
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