Birds of North America for the Scroll Saw: 25 Projects from the Berry Basket Collection

by Rick & Karen Longabaugh

Overview

Capture the serenity of North America's most popular birds with Rick and Karen Longabaugh's book of scroll saw projects. Each pattern is computer enhanced for easy crafting and utilizes the popular 3D layer technique for breathtaking realism. Scrollers also get designs for unique decorative frames depicting bird habitats, like forests, meadows and lakes. Also includes a helpful section with tips and techniques, wood selection, cutting and assembling your projects, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565233126
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/15/2006
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Rick and Karen Longabaugh started The Berry Basket and Great American Scrollsaw Patterns—their family-owned online and mail order company, specializing in unique and useful scroll saw patterns and accessories—in the fall of 1990. What began as one set of collapsible basket patterns became a complete line of fullsize woodworking patterns and hard-to-find accessories. Rick has been featured on the popular PBS show The American Woodshop with Scott Phillips and also on the cover of Popular Woodworking magazine. Many of their unique projects have been published in a number of woodworking publications, including Wood magazine, Creative Woodworks & Crafts, Popular Woodworking, The Art of the Scroll Saw, Scroll Saw Workshop, and Patrick Spielman’s Home Workshop News.

Table of Contents

ABout the Authors iv
Introduction 1

Getting Started 2
Safety tips 2
Copying the pattern 2
Preparing the surface 2
Transferring the pattern 3
Selecting the materials 3
Selecting the blade 4
Squaring the blade 4
Creating an Auxiliary Table 5
Drilling blade entry holes 5
Veining 5
Stack Cutting 6
Sawing thin woods 6
Finishing Techniques 7
Assembly 7
Customizing your project 8

Gallery 9

Projects
Green-Winged Teal Flock (Green-Winged Teal) 15
Lake View (Mallard) 19
Morning on the Lake (American Merganser) 23
Proud Plumage (Wood Duck) 27
Wetland Winging (Bufflehead Drake) 31
Flowered Perch (Long-Eared Owl) 35
Misty Crags (Great Grey Owl) 39
Moonlit Forest (Great Horned Owl) 43
Who Goes There? (Barn Owl) 47
Flight of the Osprey (Osprey) 51
Predator of the Lake (Peregrine Falcon) 55
Pride of America (American Bald Eagle) 59
Jewel of the Woodlands (Rufus Hummingbird) 63
A Little Loony (Common Loon) 67
Call of the Sandpiper (Sandpiper) 71
Canada Goose Territory (Canada Goose) 75
Catch of the Day (Little Blue Heron) 79
Dance of the Crane (Whooping Crane) 83
Dawn on the Swan Lake (Swan) 87
Heron's Landing (Great Blue Heron) 91
On the Marsh (White Pelican) 95
Portrait of a Wading Flamingo (Pink Flamingo) 99
Grassland Scene (Ring-Necked Pheasant) 103
Strut of the Grouse (Ruffed Grouse) 107
Sunny Day on the Plains (Mountain Quail) 111

Index 115
Resources 115