Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, Second Edition: Newly Revised & Expanded, Now 50 Projects in Wood (Fox Chapel Publishing) Designs including Kittens, Koalas, Bulldogs, Bears, Penguins, Pigs, & More - Softcover

Peterson, Judy & Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565233913 ISBN 13: 9781565233911

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Create fascinating puzzles of your favorite furry and feathered friends!

• 50 well-designed patterns, ready-to-cut for puzzles depicting pets, zoo animals, farm animals, and American wildlife
• Step-by-step instructions for cutting the Mama Rabbit with Babies puzzle
• Tips and techniques for successfully selecting wood, using the proper tools, and mastering the critical steps of sanding & finishing
• Expert guidance on adapting a pattern and designing your own puzzle from a photograph, plus advice for designing facial expressions to give personality to your puzzles
• A Noah's Ark landscape puzzle is included, and can be easily displayed using a backer board and stands

Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, 2nd Edition is an expanded version of the wildly popular pattern book that scroll saw artists have come to love!

With over 50 patterns for upright standing and interlocking puzzles, woodworkers will have plenty of charming puzzles to sell at craft shows or to present to loved ones as special gifts.

With a handy getting started section for beginners that includes information to ensure success, new scrollers will learn how to choose wood, blades, to transfer patterns and more. There are even easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for the Mama Rabbit with Babies puzzle to get you started.

Experienced scrollers will find useful information to customize patterns and to create your own patterns from personal photographs, along with all the fantastic animal puzzle patterns.

The realistic patterns inside include a playful scene of four cats, a smart beagle, a lovely cairn terrier, a soulful American cocker spaniel, a fun rough collie, an alligator, adorable panda bear, Frisian pony, caribou, sly red fox, bison, and others—each with full color photographs of the finished puzzles.

From kittens to koalas, bulldogs to bears, and penguins to pigs, scroll saw puzzle artists Judy and Dave Peterson's book, Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, is for any wood crafter looking for the very best puzzle patterns! The Petersons' unique form of interlocking, upright puzzles are perfect for this menagerie of creatures both great and small.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Create Fascinating Puzzles of
Your Furry and Feathered Friends

From kittens to koalas, bulldogs to bears, penguins to pigs. Scroll saw puzzle artists Judy and Dave Peterson's Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw is for any woodcrafter looking for the very best puzzle patterns. The Petersons' unique form of interlocking, upright puzzles are perfect for this menagerie of creatures both great and small.

Inside you'll find:

• Revised and expanded to include 20 fresh, new animal puzzles!
• Tips and techniques for successfully selecting wood, using the proper tools, and mastering the critical steps of sanding and finishing.
• Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for cutting Mama Rabbit with Babies puzzle.
• Expert guidance on adapting a pattern and designing your own puzzle from a photograph.
• Advice on designing facial expressions to give personality to your puzzles.
• 50 well-designed, ready-to-cut puzzle patterns depicting pets, zoo animals, farm animals, and American wildlife.
• A Noah's Ark landscape puzzle that can be easily displayed using a backer board and stands.

About the Author:

Award-winning scroll saw artist Judy Peterson is the author of Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, Second Edition; Fantasy & Legend Scroll Saw Puzzles; Zodiac Puzzles for Scroll Saw Woodworking; and Fantasy Adventure Puzzles Pattern Pack. She is a regular contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine. Judy operates FanTaminals, a business selling wood-crafted puzzles online and at art and craft shows. She also teaches beginning and intermediate scroll sawing at Woodcraft in Madison, Wisconsin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1565233913
• ISBN 13: 9781565233911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128