[Woodcarver] making cut outs with coping saw

[Ed Ertel]

Hi Rick!

That's not the exact one, but that will do as something I can hand out a copy of.  The original one I saw was screwed or otherwise attached to the top of a 2x4, just under shoulder height, where this one shows a "mounting block", but otherwise it's the same thing.

Thank You.  


EdE





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> From: Rick Johnson <n1wgk at comcast.net>

>To: woodcarver at carverscompanion.com 

>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:05 AM

>Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] making cut outs with coping saw

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

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>Is this what you were looking for???

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>Rick

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>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.

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>>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.

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>>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.

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

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>>Thanks

>>Ed Ertel,

>>Tolland, CT

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