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    Scroll Saw Baby Animals: More Than 50 Adorable Puzzle Projects to Make in Wood
    Scroll Saw Baby Animals: More Than 50 Adorable Puzzle Projects to Make in Wood
    Scroll Saw Baby Animals: More Than 50 Adorable Puzzle Projects to Make in Wood
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    Scroll Saw Baby Animals: More Than 50 Adorable Puzzle Projects to Make in Wood

    By Judy Peterson and Dave Peterson

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    From baby pandas and piglets to bear cubs and lion cubs, this book has over 50 scroll saw projects and patterns for cute wooden toys of young animals found in the zoos, woods, jungles, and oceans of the world. Providing basic information on using a scroll saw to creating wooden puzzle animals, there even a few simplified projects with pieces lar

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFox Chapel Publishing
    Release dateFeb 1, 2021
    ISBN9781607657361
    Scroll Saw Baby Animals: More Than 50 Adorable Puzzle Projects to Make in Wood
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    Judy Peterson

    A former schoolteacher and librarian, Judy Peterson found her niche in life as a woodworker. She bought her first saw in 1990 and, within the first six months, was cutting and creating her own designs. A winner of many design awards, Judy now sells her puzzles at science fiction convention art shows around the country. Together with her husband, she has written numerous articles for Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts. In her spare time, Judy reads, keeps track of politics on TV, gardens, cooks, turns bowls on her lathe, puts together other people’s flat puzzles, and plays duplicate bridge. Fox Chapel Publishing published their first book, Dinosaur Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, in 2002, and their second and third books, Fantasy & Legend Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, and Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw in 2005, Zodiac Puzzles for Scroll Saw Woodworking, and Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles (a revision and expansion of book one). 

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      Scroll Saw Baby Animals - Judy Peterson

      Introduction

      Why interlocking and freestanding puzzles?

      I like puzzles. These days, when I’m not making my own puzzles, I’m likely to be making them for someone else. I didn’t, however, plan to go into business designing and making jigsaw puzzles. I bought a scroll saw because I have always liked wood, and I was fascinated by the scroll saw work I saw at an art show once.

      When I began designing my own puzzles in 1990, I decided all of them would be interlocking. The puzzles in this book reflect that decision, meaning that, once you have the puzzles in a standing position, you can pick them up by any piece and turn them completely around without having them fall apart. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be deconstructed. Make sure you keep your puzzles vertical and don’t tip them!

      The first thing I cut out when I brought home my first scroll saw was a three-piece rabbit. As a woodworker of long standing, I used the lumber I had in my workshop. It was an old piece of 1 x 4 (2.5 x 10cm) pine. One of the things I liked about the puzzle was that it was thick enough to stand. The concept of a freestanding puzzle stayed with me as I moved on to using hardwoods.

      Why animals?

      Like everyone else I know who bought a scroll saw, I started with patterns from books. The first few original designs I did were of dinosaurs, followed by a few dragons, then a few animals, and whatever struck my fancy. Deciding what to design next got easier once I started selling my puzzles; that’s because customers told me what their interests were. (If you’re going to design a new puzzle, you might as well design one that people will want to buy.) My customers ask for animal puzzles a lot, which reinforced my own interest in them. My own interests combined with my customers’ requests made a powerful reason for designing new animal puzzles.

      Illustration

      Why hardwoods?

      1. They’re naturally beautiful. As a lover of hardwoods, I have a natural aversion to painting them. They’re beautiful in their own right. Besides that, hardwoods occur naturally in wide variety of colors. Why cut a jaguar out of piece of pine and then paint it, when you can cut it from wood that comes complete with spots (see here )?

      2. The harder the wood, the less chip-out you get. The structure of hardwoods is more uniform. Uniform density makes your cutting more consistent. You’ll spend less time overall and end up with a more pleasing result.

      3. The increased density also results in a surface that can be more easily sanded smooth. To repeat something we said in our previous books, silky means sales at an art show. This means that customers are more likely to purchase your pieces if the wood is as smooth as silk.

      Selecting a Board

      Before you can cut a puzzle out, of course, you must select the board you want to use. Examine it carefully—both top and bottom—looking for bad spots, including checks, knot holes, and obvious internal cracks. Mark these flaws on the top of the board. I use a wide black permanent marker for this task. Make

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