A PRACTICAL JOURNAL OF 
HOME ARTS. 
Vol. hi. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1880. No. 2. 
unfold, and you will see if the design meets 
with your expectations ; if it does not, cut 
the one-half to suit, or paste on pieces of 
paper and cut again wherever necessary, 
and re-cut. By adopting this method you 
will soon be able to make handsome de- 
signs for any purpose. 
The simplest way of applying patterns 
to the work is to paste the design right on 
the wood to be sawed, but care should be 
taken to put the i^aste on the parts of the 
pattern that will fall out after cutting; 
in this way you do not disfigure the part 
you wish to use. Where the work is to be 
French polished, it is better to do the 
polishing before the sawing is done, as a 
good piece of polishing can not be done 
afterwards. Oiling or varnishing may be 
done after the work is cut and put to- 
gether, but in most cases it is as well to 
do the oiling or varnishing before the saw 
touches it. 
It requires some little judgment in the 
selection of woods adapted to the different 
purposes for which they may be employed. 
If the work is fine, and full of delicate 
stems or vinery, avoid knots and select 
straight-grained, tough wood, and, before 
sawing, see that it is smooth and ready to 
closely. When finished cutting the paper, | receive oil, varnish, etc., as it is difficult to 
Scroll-Sawing.— VII. 
BY F. T. HODGSON. 
HE young sawyer 
will find no dif- 
ficulty in obtain- 
ing designs or 
full-sized pat- 
terns for nearly 
everything that 
can be made with 
a fret-saw, at a 
very trifling cost. 
There may be 
cases, however, 
where designs 
cannot be pro- 
cured for particular purposes. When this 
occurs, the workman will have to exercise 
his own ingenuity in devising some pat- 
tern to suit the emergency. In designing, 
it is always better to first make a drawing 
on coarse paper, in lead pencil, of half the 
pattern, then fold the paper double, and 
cut through both thicknesses with a knife 
or scissors, following the pencil lines 
