That's what a scroll saw looks like. It's just like a tiny band saw but much more friendly to use. Scroll saws have to be bolted down to the bench, so you will have to make room in the studio for a permanent installation. Use safety goggles, I prefer my racquetball goggles but you can use whatever you want. The blade basically just goes up and down, cutting on the downstroke.
Wood has to be pushed through the blade in order to cut.
The saw dust can be gathered to make filler for your woodcutting mistakes. For my vessel series, I like to have the pristine surface of the paper contrast with the black images of the vessels themselves. Cutting the background out of the printing image gives the print a perfectly clean background without having to wipe roller marks clean every time. Despite perfect carving and even planing, when printing with a press some features of the background will emboss the paper. Cutting out the background also avoids this problem.