You guys rock! The regular instructor is an amazingly talented man. I went to his class the other evening to see what he patterns he was using for a 4 hr class. The first technically is more segmentation than intarsia - a poinsettia. But it did give new scrollers a feel for scrolling, and the importance of making pieces fit together. So I'll do that one. The other he did was a rocking horse. The folks who had scrolled before got through both (with no time to spare). My class will be on a Saturday, so technically it is 6 hrs instead of 4. Woodcraft had not pushed the class until they knew they had someone to teach it, so only 1 person has signed up so far. There could be as many as 5, possibly 6. The one is an experienced scroller. I figure on having the poinsettia for introduction. Then I'd like to have wood ready to cut for at least several of the others. One thing the usual instructor does is to have the class cut the pattern out of white board (plumbing dep't at Lowes), a backer and a spare "backer/pattern". Since it's intarsia I don't want to use ply for the backer, guess I could for the spare. All this said, I probably only need a couple of boards of several woods - something red-ish, light brown, dark brown, white-ish, yellow-ish, maybe green. I can get some of it from a BORG, but not all. Meanwhle I have got to get practicing. This is the one part of scrolling that I feel the least secure about. What have I done??
The other part of the original question is do any of the member sawyers saw/re-saw to the thin sizes I normally use when scrolling.
