Box-Making Projects for the Scroll Saw - 30 Woodworking Projects That Are Surprisingly Easy to Make
The basics of box-making are covered in this manual for the scroll saw, including designs for hinged and lift-off lids, boxes with drawers, and laminated boxes. Patterns are provided for 30 eye-catching variations of such items as recipe and tissue boxes, knitting trays, desk organizers, jewelry boxes, and boxes embellished with stacked wood to create checkerboard, diamond, pinwheel or pie-segmented effects.
Garnet Hall is back with more fabulous techniques and breathtaking projects that take the art to new and exciting levels. Intarsia involves cutting different types and shades of wood into shapes and then assembling them to create an intricate design: the resulting piece is rich in color and appealingly dimensional. With this guide in hand, beginners will have all the advice they need on cutting and fitting accurately, raising and lowering the pieces to get the look of relief carving, and shaping, sanding, and texturing the wood.
What goes on behind closed doors in families is examined in this text. Through his storytelling style, Randy Day introduces readers to the family processes approach—the strategies and behaviors families use to achieve goals. The emphasis is on how families work and interact rather than on the psychological, sociological, or economic processes. It examines emotions in families, communication, relationship formation/dissolution, family rituals, and power and conflict. Chapters open with a Preview and conclude with a Summary, Study Questions, Key Terms, and Suggested Readings.
World Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw: 60 Wild Portraits for Lions, Pandas, Koalas, Gorillas and More
Scrollers of all skill levels will delight in these scroll saw patterns that celebrate wildlife from around the world. Sixty patterns for 45 species of wildlife are provided, including antelope, elephant, gorilla, jaguar, kangaroo, koala, lion, monkey, panther, seal, tiger, whale, and zebra. Each of the patterns has been carefully drawn with crisp, black cutting lines, making the patterns easy to follow. A smaller, black-filled image details the cuts.
Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design
Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires the most widely used method for collecting information about people's attitudes and behavior. An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and social scientists, this thoroughly updated and definitive work combines time-proven techniques with the most current research, findings, and methods. The book presents a cognitive approach to questionnaire design and includes timely information on the Internet and electronic resources.
