Creative Wooden Boxes from the Scroll Saw: 28 Useful & Surprisingly Easy-to-Make Projects (Fox Chapel Publishing) Patterns and Step-by-Step for Jewelry Boxes, Pivot Lids, Food-Shaped Boxes, and More

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Product Description Create beautiful wooden boxes without a lathe! 28 scroll saw projects for jewelry boxes, lidded boxes, hinged boxes, mini furniture boxes, and more Full-size patterns, tools and materials lists, and step-by-step instructions for each project Complete guide to learning how to make beautiful wooden boxes on the scroll saw, no lathe or router required Artistic designs include boxes with bows, a multicolored box, boxes that look like food, and a five-lobed box Author Carole Rothman is the popular author of Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw and has been a craftsperson most of her life Making beautiful wooden boxes has never been easier! If you are a woodworker searching for unique and interesting box projects for the scroll saw, you need look no further! Carole Rothman, author of Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw, returns to offer her creative spin on box projects. She's surveyed the most popular boxes in woodworking and shows you how to make band saw-style boxes, jewelry boxes, and lidded boxes on the scroll saw. Inside this book, you'll find 28 beautiful and creative designs for boxes you'll love to make and love to use. Rothman also walks you through the creation of her scroll-sawn bow technique, which she adapted from cake decorating. You'll love the chapter "Fun with Food," where you'll learn make boxes that look like a pie, a cupcake, or an ice cream sundae! The 28 projects include: Diagonal Bow Box Apple Tart Box Coffee Cup Box Linzer Tart Box Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Box Double Heart Ring Box China Cabinet Box Bookcase Box Striped Pivot Lid Box The Instabox And many more! Inside these 176 pages, woodworkers with basic skills will learn how to use the versatility of the scroll saw to create extraordinary projects. You'll learn Carole's secrets of making boxes on the scroll saw that replicate effects usually associated with band saws, routers, or lathes. The methods used include techniques such as fretwork, intarsia, and stacked rings. New materials, like veneer, are incorporated to produce high-end effects with little additional work or cost. The 28 scroll saw projects range from traditional, such as ring boxes, to whimsical, such as bookcases, apple pies, and cupcakes with sprinkles. No matter what your taste, you will find a box project here that is useful, easy to create, and will make a great gift—if you can bear to part with it! Ditch the router and get started making amazing boxes on the versatile scroll saw, with Creative Wooden Boxes from the Scroll Saw! Review This book is up in the top 10 of my favourite woodworking books!! The projects are so, well, creative!! Imagine a box that looks like a pie, yes, a good ol' apple pie! And not only is it cute as "pie" but useful too, it is a box, remember. AND if you are handy with the scroll saw well, I'm sure the projects would be as easy as "pie" as well, given the in-depth instructions and photos. Besides the boxes that look like food, we also have boxes with bows, boxes with hinges and boxes that look like furniture!! The variety of projects (over two dozen, actually), and the creativity, is, to me, over the top extraordinary. I love this book! Creative ideas. Beautiful creations. Practical projects. My Ratings of The Book Layout and Appearance: Good balance of photos, how-to instructions, projects. Thumbs Up! Instructions: Clear information and instructions Thumbs Up! Projects Selection: A wide variety of projects, simple to complex. Great. Inspiration: Oh how I wish I was a better scrollsaw-er! I want to make that pie. Overall: Thumbs Up! There are a number of books on the subject of making boxes using a bandsaw. Far fewer offer instructions for making them on a scroll saw. Yet, as Carole Rothman shows in this book, the scrollsaw has inherent advantages for this work. The author's introductory notes are given an unusual twist by being presented as a series of questions. These include: What if I can't get the recommended wood for a projec