Try your hand at contemporary fretwork scroll saw projects! Offering a modern twist on a traditional artform, this complete guide features how-to tips, three complete step-by-step tutorials, and 27 scroll saw patterns of peace signs, butterflies, flowers, mandalas, and other fresh designs to challenge your scroll saw skills. This exciting project guide will show you everything you need to know to accomplish intricate trivets, coasters, and wall plaques. Also included is insightful information on wood selection and size, blank preparation, blade selection, a gallery of completed designs, and more! Author Charles Hand is an accomplished designer and award-winning scroll saw artist with a love for fretwork, intarsia, segmentation, and inlay. A regular contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, he also sells his work to a world-wide clientele on his website, Making Dust with Charles Hand.

After a successful career in Electrical, Mechanical and Graphic Design, Charles R. Hand has focused his artistic design skills into creating unique scroll saw patterns and woodworked portraits since 2005. He has developed his own style and now incorporates his graphic design background into designing his own patterns, portrait design, and most recently, making layered 3D works of art. Winning several awards for his designs in local woodworking and craft shows, Charles scroll saws purely for pleasure and fun. You can find Charles' award-winning work in the pages of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine and on his website, www.scrollsawart4u.weebly.com. He resides in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

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