02-05-2009, 12:35 PM
Here's a Reader Digest version of the precedure.
I get either a high resolution digital image or hard copy to scan.
It's then opened in a photo editing program like Photoshop.
In Photoshop, the picture goes through MANY different editing procedures from changing brightness and contrast to bring out light and dark areas to using a pen tablet like a Wacom tablet to do some drawing. This is what takes all the time. The picture is done in sections so I can concentrate and manipulate for just that section.
It then needs to be approved by the customer.
After approval, it's printed out on sticky paper so the pattern can be placed on the wood.
A hole is drilled out of every black section so a scroll saw blade can threaded in and the black sections are cut with a scroll saw by hand.
This is my saw:
![[Image: scrollsaw.jpg]](http://smwoodcrafts.com/scrollsaw.jpg)
Well, maybe it was a little longer than planned.
Thanks,
Dan Seymour
smwoodcrafts.com
I get either a high resolution digital image or hard copy to scan.
It's then opened in a photo editing program like Photoshop.
In Photoshop, the picture goes through MANY different editing procedures from changing brightness and contrast to bring out light and dark areas to using a pen tablet like a Wacom tablet to do some drawing. This is what takes all the time. The picture is done in sections so I can concentrate and manipulate for just that section.
It then needs to be approved by the customer.
After approval, it's printed out on sticky paper so the pattern can be placed on the wood.
A hole is drilled out of every black section so a scroll saw blade can threaded in and the black sections are cut with a scroll saw by hand.
This is my saw:
Well, maybe it was a little longer than planned.
Thanks,
Dan Seymour
smwoodcrafts.com