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I have a pattern designed in Inkscape that I would like to scale up. Rather than enlarging the pattern and printing out several sheets of paper which then have to be taped together, I would prefer to overlay the image with a grid so I can then transfer the key image points directly onto a...

We've got a lot of new scrollers here who might find themselves being asked if they could make things for friends. Without a specific pattern to hand, that might be a daunting prospect. One way to approach the problem is to pick the brains of other scrollers, which is what somebody has done...

A number of people have mentioned that they would like to produce scroll saw patterns but they're not very good at drawing. I always regarded myself as a rotten artist too but that didn't deter me from producing patterns! I found that I could use free programs such as the Gimp and Inkscape to...

I've already mentioned on a couple of forums about a nifty free program from Microsoft called ICE. ICE stands for Image Composite Editor. If you subscribe to a certain scroll saw magazine you will find it is accompanied by a very large pattern sheet. Of course, nobody likes to cut up the...

His Lordship is thinking of getting me a small lathe this Christmas for making pens and suchlike. I don't have much space in the workshop so there would be no point buying a full-sized lathe. What would be a good lathe to buy?

I often pop into eBay just out of curiosity to see which scroll saws are for sale and what the going rate is. Lately, there have been some good quality second-hand saws going at bargain basement prices. I suspect this is often down to the vendor insisting that the buyer collects rather than...

Stanley Works to buy Black & Decker Well, it's almost the time of year when people start thinking about buying B&Ds for Christmas :ho2 . I wonder what this will mean for DeWalt? Perhaps it's too much to hope that the B&D owned Delta brand might be restored to its former glory.

Hubby found a sawmill out at Belbroughton near Stourbridge last week and ordered us some fence panels for about half the price of our local retailer. When he told me about this, I trotted over there and had a chat with the mill owner. Although most of his products are pine, his daughter makes...

Is there any reason why this Lidl Extension Lead with Foot Switch shouldn't be used as a scroll saw foot switch?

Watching Jimmy's Food Factory on the BBC last night, I was struck by the opening titles. There is a scrolled shadow portrait of the presenter! I've never seen anything like it on telly before. Perhaps Jimmy is a closet scroller :) .

I have been playing with my new CorelDraw Essentials program :) and produced some compound cut Christmas bauble patterns. These are hot off the press and completely untested, so there are no guarantees! I am confident they will be satisfactory, although the patterns on the mid-right and...

From 26 October Lidl will be selling a Christmas Arts & Crafts Set. The picture in the link suggests that many of the items will be very adaptable to scroll saw Christmas patterns. Anyone who is short of these sorts of patterns might do well to check out the offer. At £2.99, it's much cheaper...

I've been fiddling with my new graphics tablet and clicking on the thumbnail below should take you to a couple of patterns for soccer fans. Fingers crossed! I haven't cut it yet myself so I'm making no promises with regard to quality. If anyone does cut it, please let me know how you get on.

Aldi is currently stocking Wacom Bamboo graphics tablets for less than £40. I bought one this morning and it's a treat to use. It comes with bundled OEM software too, Ulead Photoimpact 12 and CorelDraw Essential Editions 3, which should be very useful for anyone who is looking to do graphics...

Elements of the Staffordshire Anglo Saxon treasure hoard will go on display at Birmingham museum tomorrow. I shall be there, complete with a camera (if they'll let me take photos) and a sketchbook. You can read about the haul here. The fretwork on some of the jewellery is so intricate...

Compound cutting is fun and can produce items which look striking but are relatively simple to make. The first (and most critical) step of the technique is to check your saw table for squareness against the blade before you begin. If it is not square, you will find cuts which meet up when you...

I've been finding inspiration in beer bottles! Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say on beer bottles :) . His Lordship likes a tipple of Abbot Ale now and again, so I took the logo off a bottle and adapted it to a shadow portrait pattern, cutting it from oak scraps and mounting it onto a...

I've been accused of being too quiet! Well, that's a refreshing change :lol: . I am still finding it difficult to get as much time in the workshop as I would like. However, I do pop in occasionally and although some of you may already be aware of my latest 'creation', some won't. It's a...

The mitre gauge on my router table is not one I'm happy to trust, so I decided to make a sled for it. All the components were cut out of construction grade 12mm ply and dados were routed to enable the components to slot together. I also drilled four 6mm diameter holes in each of the main...

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