[Woodcarver] making cut outs with coping saw

[Rick Johnson]

http://www.woodworkingformeremortals.com/2011/04/coping-saw-jig.html

Is this what you were looking for???

Rick

On 3/29/2012 9:30 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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