num_pages: 112
description: How to turn a photograph of a loved one, pet, or movie star into a strikingly accurate portrait in wood is detailed in this woodcutting workbook! Guiding you through converting an image via your computer into a woodcutting pattern, this book provides strategies for creating a wood portrait that maintains the essential attributes of the original subject. Tips are provided for investing in computer software, finishing and framing a portrait, and cutting a piece without weakening the wood. This second edition charts current advances in software and provides fascinating patterns of many famous faces for practice, or if you prefer not to design your own. More than 70 ready-to-use patterns are included!
language: English
title: Scroll Saw Portraits: How to Turn Photographs into Wooden Keepsakes (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 70 Ready-to-Use Patterns, How to Convert Images for Woodworking, Cutting, Finishing, Framing, and More
titlecomplete: Scroll Saw Portraits: How to Turn Photographs into Wooden Keepsakes (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 70 Ready-to-Use Patterns, How to Convert Images for Woodworking, Cutting, Finishing, Framing, and More
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing