Scrollsaw

Scrollsawing, a safe, fun and fast woodworking hobby

The scrollsaw is one of the safest woodworking tools, and also allows you to be extremely creative. Not the easiest for cutting straight lines, but you can make a wide variety of simple shapes in minutes which can be painted or used as trim pieces on larger projects.

I use a Dewalt scrollsaw and create large colorful "paintings" using the scrollsaw. The reason I say "paintings" is that many people on first glance think my pieces are "just" paintings, however each colored section has been cut out using a scrollsaw. I start with a piece of 1/4" MDF which is usually either 4ft x 2ft or 2ft x 2ft, draw the design on in pencil, then fire up the scrollsaw and start cutting. It 's pretty tricky at times cutting up such a large piece of material on a scrollsaw that only has 20 inches from the blade to the back of the saw, but I love a challenge.

My artwork (as well as some progression pictures of projects being made) can be found at: www.amazedcreations.com

Some of my work is available as posters, pretty dang cool if you ask me!

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Scrollsaw info from Wikipedia

A scroll saw is a small electric or pedal operated saw useful for cutting intricate curves where a jigsaw or coping saw is not appropriate; it is capable of creating curves with edges. It is somewhat similar to a band saw, but unlike band saws, in which the saw blade is a continuous loop, scroll saws use saw blades similar to those used by coping saws and operate through a quick reciprocating up and down motion.

There are many different brands of scroll saws on the market today. Notable ones include Excalibur (made in Canada), RBI (made in the USA), Hegner (made in Germany), Eclipse (made in the USA), and DeWalt (originally made in Canada, but now made in the Far East). There are also a number of less expensive scroll saws made in the Far East including: Delta, Dremel (Bosch), Craftsman, Ryobi and others.

There are different types of scroll saws. The most common design is the parallel arm in which a motor is attached near the back of the arms, and the two arms always remain parallel to each other. The C-arm has a solid "C" shape with the blade being mounted between the two ends of the "C". The parallel link, used by Excalibur and DeWalt, has rods in the upper and lower arms that are "pushed" by the motor to move short (about 4 inches - 100 millimetres- long) articulated arms and the end which hold the blade. The rigid arm scroll saw, which was very popular up until the 1970s, but is no longer made, has a single-piece cast iron frame. The blade is attached to a pitman arm on the bottom which pulls the blade down, and a spring in the upper arm pulls the blade back up again. This resulted in a significant weakness in that tension on the blade changed with every stroke of the blade. Modern scroll saws are all "constant tension" saws. Uncommon and larger industrial type scrollsaws, included spring or vacuum sprung scrollsaws, these variations didn't have arms. Instead they had the reciprocation mechanism at one end of the blade and a tension device on the other to return the push stroke, their advantage being the tension/spring device could be hung from the ceiling of a building and large parts that otherwise could not be cut on arm-style scrollsaws could be cut, e.g., aircraft frames of the past.

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Here's some of my scrollsawed designs available on CafePress

Each design is available on about 90 different items

If you want to put your items up on cafepress, and need help, email me at: dave@amazedcreations.com

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A simple scrollsaw project

An introduction to scrollsawing, with a simple project beginners can make without artistic skill or a pattern. More scrollsaw info: www.squidoo.com/scrollsaw My website: www.amazedcreations.com

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