Learn to use your scroll saw to make beautiful displays. Click image to enlarge

Scenes of North American Wildlife For the Scroll Saw

By Rick and Karen Longabaugh

115 pages - $16.95

Fox Chapel Publishing

Text & Photos by Tom Hintz

Wildlife has always been a favorite theme for scroll sawyers with species from the North American continent dominating. Scenes of North American Wildlife, which includes 25 projects that feature this theme and enable you to create dozens of beautiful displays.

Authors Rick and Karen Longabaugh devote Chapter One to a quick but thorough tutorial covering the techniques and procedures needed to build the

Each pattern section includes all necessary pieces, including the detailed frames! Click image to enlarge

included projects. They also provide a gallery of their work that not only shows what is possible; the clear, large photographs give the reader examples of how the different features should look.

Each project section includes easy to copy and use patterns for the individual components, including indicators that show where spacers are applied to create the 3-dimensional look that makes this artwork pop. Highly detailed frame patterns are also included for each project that even show where other components overlap to make assembling the project correctly very easy.

While veteran scroll sawyers will enjoy North American Wildlife, the instructions and selection of pattern difficulties make this a good choice for the novice as well.

Do you have a comment on this review? – Email Me!

Back to the Tool Reviews List