Scroll Saw Cutting for Beginners Pt1

a scrollers bot Bloodworth here with scrollsaw forum calm learning to do a little tutorial on cutting simple scroll saw cutting some of you out there or beginners and it might be a little intimidating sometimes I mean even cutting a straight line on a scroll saw it can be difficult so I put a made-up a little guide here that a will apply to a piece of wood like this and then we'll go ahead and start cutting it out and I'll show you the different techniques that I use it doesn't mean they're necessarily right they're just the techniques to work for me and I'll show you give you some ideas of you know the best way to handle certain cuts on the scroll saw so at this point let's go ahead and get the pattern apply it'll give you a quickie little tutorial on how to apply the pattern to this if you hadn't done it before and we'll go ahead and get started before we apply the pattern and a piece of what I just wanted to go over it real quick with you so you get an idea of what we're actually going to try to accomplish here this pattern guide gives you the opportunity to practice many of the different types of cuts that you'll come across while scrolling starting off with line a will work left to right a typical straight line cut which believe it or not is probably the more difficult cut you're going to have to make B is another straight line cut which we will also add some 90-degree angles in here plus a little intersection C is just more angle cuts or 90-degree straight line cuts a D will give you some practice on curves e is just a spiral along with a couple circles and inside circle and an outside circle and then F is basically the final exam if you can cut F without a problem then you're good to go you don't need to do any more practice cutting you can just go work on your projects the final exam also has a couple little different cuts in here called veining cuts and this could also be considered a vein eonline down here on the intersection so we'll get into that as well if you haven't actually located the pattern yet it is in the description links below just click on one of the links and you'll be able to pull this pattern up and simply print it out now we'll go apply the pattern in order to prepare your wood for the pattern we need to cut it out as you can see I cut mine out on my table saw you can use this dance otters pole saw whatever your preference is once it's cut out we want to apply blue painters tape to the one side of the board this will help the blade stay lubricated throughout the cutting process and it also makes the pattern easier to remove in the end to cut your pattern out you can use a pair of scissors or you could do it the way I did it here and use an exacto knife and a straightedge once it's cut out we need to apply some spray adhesive to the backside of the pattern you simply put it in your little boxes you see I have a little spray box that I use for all my pattern spray it comes in really handy after you spray it a pattern you pick it up let it sit for 10-15 seconds to give the glue a bit of tackiness then you can go ahead and apply it to your piece of wood and once it's applied you do want to squeegee out all the little bubbles that appear so that it goes on nice and smooth now that the pattern is applied we can go ahead and drill out our little entry holes that we need to so let's head over to the drill press and we'll go from there drilling holes is pretty much straightforward and simple there are a couple things that I want to point out that will make the process even better for you you want to make sure you have nice straight holes and you want to try to avoid tear out on the back of the hole once you drill the hole so the first thing we're going to do is make sure that our drill bit is 90 degrees to the table that is what is going to keep our hole straight when we drill it if you don't have a drill press you can use a hand drill and just do your best to keep the bit straight as you're going through it it's much more important on thicker wood that your drill bit is perpendicular to the table or at 90 degrees the thicker the wood the more deflection the bit will give and it will give you a crooked hole going in from the top to the bottom we really don't want that so we we want to make sure that our drill bit goes in and stays straight throughout the entire hole drilling process so we do that by using something that we know is known 90 degree angles and I have these little blocks that I use for squaring my scroll saw up that worked perfect and we simply bring it down and eyeball it and as you can see that bid is pretty darn close to being perfectly parallel to the table as long as the table is parallel you won't have any problems the second thing we want to do is make sure to avoid tear out that we use a backer block as you can see I've used this one quite a bit for drilling already the most important thing on drilling holes to prevent tear-out is that we use a nice flat piece of wood this is just a piece of 3/4 inch plywood scrap that I had works great because it's nice and flat I'm going to change the blade real quick and I want to show you how to avoid tear out and what causes tear out with the bigger bit installed I'm going to go ahead and drill a hole without the backer board so you can see what tear out actually looks like as you can see it's pretty it's hard to see the hole because it didn't really go through very well so now we'll do the same hole using a nice clean piece on our backer board then we'll drill the same hole again now see that's a nice clean hole because there was no gap between this wood and this wood whenever there is a gap when the drill bit exits the wood is when you get tear out as long as there's something perfectly flat behind the hole as you put the drill through it you won't have tear out now a situation like this I see it all the time I see videos and people use a board like this but they'll make the mistake of cutting or joining their hole over spots that are already used so I'm going to pick a spot here that is not flat and has previous holes in it and will drill a hole there and see what happens see there's our hole drilled out on the backer board but it was not drilled in a flat spot it was drilled over other holes that were already cut the intention is good but the outcome is pretty much no different than the first hole we had you got to get all this stuff off and it makes its real ugly and not something you'd be proud of so the bottom line is even if you have a backer board always drill a hole in a fresh spot that's the one we just drilled out again and you won't have to worry about tear out one more thing a a warped piece of wood won't work either because if the board is warped or cupped you'll still have an air gap between the exit of the project piece of wood and the backer board anytime there is a gap you want it nice and flat like this anytime there is a gap between there you're going to get tear out so that's something to watch for when you're drilling holes okay now onto the project I want to find a nice spot here I've got a sixteenth inch bit here which you can find comes in pretty much any drill saw or drill bit index you always seem to have a sixteenth inch bit so let's go ahead and drill out two of our holes here okay that's the last hole on chillin at our little project most of the time 1/16 inch bid is going work for you my theory is always to go bigger than smaller when it comes to cutting your holes for scrollsaw projects because it's easier to get the blade in and out when while you're actually cutting let's get to the fun part now and we'll start cutting some of these little lines out

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Id: upD6Mt86JV0

Length: 10min 29sec (629 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 19 2013