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Kitten graphics from www.freepik.com. Edited by Steve Good.
I was playing around with these kitten graphics I found on www.freepik.com. They needed quite a bit of editing to make them able to cut on a scroll saw. There are several small cuts in both patterns. I try to design my patterns so a 1/16" drill bit will fit in all the interior cuts. These patterns will absolutely require you to use a small drill bit. A 1/16" will work but you will have to be careful where you drill the holes.
The patterns are both 10" X 8". I would suggest 1/4" or 1/8" Baltic birch plywood.
These patterns will fit an 8" X 10" frame. Just make sure the frame is deep enough to hold the thickness of wood you use. When I plan to frame a piece I will usually cut it from 1/8" BB ply and back it with colored paper. It will take some searching to find a frame that is deep enough. You can always cut your own frames if needed.
Helpful Website for Scroll Saw Pattern Designers:
This is just an overview and not a tutorial. You will need some prior knowledge of Inkscape to make this work.
When you need to add text to the interior of a scroll saw pattern it needs to be in a stencil format. This just means that the letters do not have any interior areas that will fall out when cut. The letter "O" is an example. If you cut the "O" without making it a stencil then the center of the "O" will fall out. See the example below.
The website above allows you to take any font you have and make it a stencil that you can download and add to the project you are working on. The file will be downloaded as an SVG file. That format can be imported into Inkscape and edited.
Keep in mind that the site does not convert the font. It only converts the letters you enter and exports those letter as an SVG. The site does not offer any sizing or other options so the svg is intended to be imported into a vector graphics program and edited.
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The svg that Stencilfy exports does have a bit of a bug. When you import it into Inkscape the letters that were stencilifyed are not filled and the letters that were not edited are filled. This is easily changed in Inkscape by selecting the fill and outline colors of the svg.
Not every font will work so you will need to experiment a little.
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Every Scrollsaw Workshop Pattern from 2007-2018 in DVD
This DVD has over 2,600 patterns published from 2007 thru 2018.
The DVD is $20 plus shipping. Ships to 60 countries around the world.
The DVD is $20 plus shipping. Ships to 60 countries around the world.
If you use the DVD on a Windows PC there is a simple viewer program to browse through the patterns.
The DVD also works fine on a MAC. The viewer program is not MAC compatible but there is an included PDF with all the patterns shown as thumbnails for easy viewing.
All the same file but on an easy to use a thumb drive. The USB thumb drive option is $23 plus shipping.
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Scroll Saw Pattern Design Tutorial: DVD
Let me teach you to create a beautiful wooden portrait pattern. I will show you everything you need from start to finish. The video will show you the free software program you can download for Windows or Mac OS. I will show you how to install the program and configure it for best results.
Let me teach you to create a beautiful wooden portrait pattern. I will show you everything you need from start to finish. The video will show you the free software program you can download for Windows or Mac OS. I will show you how to install the program and configure it for best results.
Then I will show you the technique to take your photograph and make a pattern from it. When the pattern is complete we will go in the shop and cut it.
The DVD is $10 plus shipping. This is a data DVD that you will use on your computer to watch the video tutorial
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