[Woodcarver] making cut outs with coping saw

[Ed Ertel]

At one of the carving groups I frequent, a new carver was asking how to make small cut-outs without a bandsaw.  She and her grandson are both trying their hands at carving.

I mentioned that years ago (before I had a bandsaw) I used a coping saw.  Cutting was facilitated a lot by a gadget I saw in one of the old carving books.  This was a v-board mounted horizontally on top of a 2x4, cut so that it was a few inches below shoulder height.  By marking a desired contour on the block I wished to cut, and clamping it to the v-board, it was a held at a height that made it easy for me to hold the coping saw vertically while sawing out the contour.

One of the old books had good diagram(s) and discussion on how to make and use one of these.  I would like to copy that page and have it available for new carvers, but I can't find it now, and do not remember what book it may have been in.

Does anyone in the group remember it, or something like I described, who could tell me where to find that info?

Thanks
Ed Ertel,
Tolland, CT
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