Native American Patterns

[john70]

Hello Martin, Here are a few patterns for free or for anyone else to download. Enjoy john70.

 

[smoggy49]

Hi John70, cracking stuff that, would love to give portraits a try. Can you point me to any "instructional you-tubes web sites or books" I've looked and looked but cant get my head around it.

Chas

 

[john70]

Hello Smoggy, I haven,t seen any you tube videos on hand fret work. if you can tell me exactly what you want to know i will certainly try to help you. There are very few people that hand fret saw these days, so that means there are very few books to teach people. As i say if i can help with patterns ,blade choices or how to hand saw i will help you. john70.

 

[martinka]

John, I use the Russian equivalent of Facebook to chat to a couple of friends, and in a couple of fretwork communities on there, they nearly all saw by hand and do some incredible work. The old Hobbies patterns tend to be seen a lot. There seems to be mostly young people involved too.

Martin.

 

[john70]

Hello Martin. Have a look at this site to see if it is of use to you .lots of old patterns.john. www.finescrollsaw.com.

 

[boysie39]

John forgive me for asking , are these patterns or have they been cut by you .??

It is probably obvious to rest of the folk on here but not to me .

The reason I ask is I don't want to say what beautiful pieces of art they are and then find out that they are just the patterns . :roll:

 

[boysie39]

John , just going back over your other post I can see that you have cut all these patterns . So I can say with certainty that it is wonderful work .

I agree with Martin that the stretched one is a great way of presenting the work .

Love it Thank you .

 

[martinka]

Hello Martin. Have a look at this site to see if it is of use to you .lots of old patterns.john. http://www.finescrollsaw.com.

Thanks, John, though I already knew that site. I've probably found every scroll saw web page available since becoming addicted last January. I keep looking at the 3D Victorian train that heads Pedro's website and thinking, "Shall I, shan't I?" Probably not until I find somewhere reasonably local to get baltic birch ply.

Martin.

 

[john70]

Hello boysie. yes and no about the patterns. I downloaded them from Scroll Saw Village site and then with a very old computor monitor i put an A4 paper to the monitor and draw around the cut out and then tidy them up. john.

 

[smoggy49]

Hi John,

Re tips an advice, my problem is with all of the stuff I've made to date I could look at the pattern and fire up the saw and know where I was going. When I look at Portraits I cant follow the cut line I'm struggling with the path and which side of the line is the waste maybe when I have some time I should just jump in and commit some birch ply to the wood burner! Also tracing off a monitor screen that must be difficult. I live in a place known locally as "the snowball factory" it being high up and remote (Consett it snowed here last Sunday) and I always think its a fairly primitive place. But with the work you turn out and no printer now that's hardcore.... respect!

Chas

 

[martinka]

John, I must admit I am gobsmacked at how you got your patterns. That's some dedication to the art.

Chas, if you know how to go about it with an image editor such as the free GIMP editor, you can make the pattern much easier to follow. Change the colour of the line from black to grey or some other lighter colour to make it easier to see the blade. On patterns with internal cuts, fill the waste with another colour such as red, but again make it a light colour. I didn't do this with the loco I am cutting and I have lost count of the times I have wandered off the line because I couldn't see the blade.

Martin.

 

[smoggy49]

Thanks Martin,
I can see how that would that would help. I've just had a look and for some reason GIMP is already down loaded on my PC, it most be due to something I read on here. Anyway I'll see what I can do to work through it, when I get some spare time. thanks again.
Chas

 

[boysie39]

Bloody hellJohn that takes some dedication and patience to go about it the way you do . :shock: That is not to say that I know any better :roll: :roll: I began my wrestling with computers about 8 yrs. ago and in that time I've been fired about the ring like a rag doll. .Just when I think I have it sussed out they add on something else .Oh well they done the same with the mobile phone I had just got the hang of finding an area where I could make a call when they introduced texting hadn't got that worked out when the camera was shoved on . Life's a beech.

John I just hope you continue to amaze this auld git with your art . Good Bless .