[Woodcarver] making cut outs with coping saw

[RP]

Ed:

     I have seen articles like you describe but can't seem to find one 
right now either. I would also tell them that a jig saw turned upside 
down and clamped in a vise or clamped so it can not move around works 
pretty good also. It may be hard to make some of the tight corners but 
those can be cleaned up with the coping saw.

RP

On 3/29/2012 8:30 PM, Ed Ertel wrote:

> 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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