Thread: Why Are You A Scroller ?

because I'm not a cabinet maker
bored are we Bob?
Pete

I've never been able to cut a straight line in my whole life, so I went out and got myself a scrollsaw.

Not bored Pete, just thinking of expanding horizons.
I tend to like meaty sort of work which takes a while instead of short fast stuff that you can make in a coupla minutes

Try some of those intricate clocks, they must take hours at a time, or the Lords Prayer on a small piece of stock.
Not my style but the Seppo's seem to love it.
I enjoy the relief work and making reproduction mouldings for broken antique pieces as well as a few little painting projects for the kids, such as the 3D dolphin which I have posted before.

Originally Posted by echnidna

Not bored Pete, just thinking of expanding horizons.
I tend to like meaty sort of work which takes a while instead of short fast stuff that you can make in a coupla minutes

well theres lots of stuff I do that takes time ie clocks and portraits etc.
I like these types of projects and am now waiting for plans for another clock a parlour cabinet and a candle lit chandelier from wildwood in the states.
according to the tracker its in Melbourne but that means nothing. gets here within a couple days then takes a week or more to get here from melbourne
Pete

I'm not - I'm a folder

bought the saw for my husband.... he didn't use it enough for my liking so I took over. It's all my dad's fault tho, as a kid he had me use a coping saw by the time I was 6 - poor man must have spend a fortune on new blades!
He also fostered my love of wood ( always had me sniff any new piece of furniture lol). That combined with interest in just about any kind of craft got me going with the scroll saw. Am not much into the fine work... I love the scroll saw because it has to be the most versatile woodworking tool ever. I can do just about anything as long as it's small.

Making something a bit different is fun.... like the bowls made from rings , boxes without joinery, or relief cuts, or 3D cuts or ..... or.... or.... no end to it really.

Juvy

Not a scroller yet, but going to join group this week.....................................
Keju, you say you can make anything as long as its small, I make some nice furniture, fair amount of it pretty big too, but, still cant handle the scroll saw.....I am actually going to join a club here to learn to master the one I have.....so if you can handle the scroll saw you can make any of the furniture I make....because the scroll-saw I just haven't worked it out yet...would like to chat to you about the technique I use....recycled-ENCASEMENT....had BBQ on weekend and the two of the ladies here decided they are going to start to move into the men's shed...and try there hand.......think there may be some domestics to come....LOL happy woodworking...regards Kerry

I had some crafty type pattern books and noted to a family member they could be interesting to make. They found a scrollsaw in a hardware catalogue and asked if that would help me make said crafty items, i then got the scrollsaw for christmas. It was a GMC, but it got the interest going.

However I dont think I made many crafty things, ended up finding other more interesting things to make.

Originally Posted by echnidna

Why Are You A Scroller ?

You can make wonderful customised gifts for people and if they don't take so long then wonderful as more people get a great present

I'm not a scroller... I consider myself more of a fretter. Not that I do fret-work, I mean I fret over the pieces I screw up on the scrollsaw. I'm a scroller wannabe, as it were.

Ideally I want to be able to do scrollwork on the items I turn, instead of using the hand-held fretsaw as I currently do. But this'll need some serious mods to my scrollsaw so it can handle cylindrical(ish) objects and my GMC POS isn't suitable for this. [sigh]

In the meantime, I'll just keep dreaming and pinch others' ideas...