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splinter_smith
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Here's a similar one I have saved in my bookmarks yet to fully look into.
https://www.finescrollsaw.com
https://www.finescrollsaw.com
scrimper
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My website has free plans to download- they are old fretwork plans from the original (pre 1968) Honnies company and the old (pre 1930's) Handicraft company. I am adding more as time allows.
https://sites.google.com/view/scrimpers-fretworking-site/home
https://sites.google.com/view/scrimpers-fretworking-site/home
Jaco
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Sue Mey - some of the designs could take a whole year to cut! 
https://scrollsawartist.com/?gr_s=BtIf5xy&gr_m=BlfKv9&gr_x=a62b
https://scrollsawartist.com/?gr_s=BtIf5xy&gr_m=BlfKv9&gr_x=a62b
loftyhermes
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Have a look at Fiona Kjngdon's work.
https://www.fionakingdon.com
https://www.fionakingdon.com
Scrimper, having read the above I looked at your site and saw your section on the Lord's Prayer. For your (or anyone's) interest, there is an example of this in the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther. I saw it last year and was seriously impressed. I don't have any details of the person that scrolled it though.
Eric
Eric
scrimper
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Eric it is indeed a very impressive piece of work - although the one in your picture is not complete, if you look at the one on my website the original has a very detailed frame around it which improves the item enormously.
My late grandfather was an excellent fretworker back in those early days and he cut out of these which as a young lad I always admired so much when I visited him. I have no idea what happened to it. Even as a boy I was interested in the hobby and we had a copy of Hobbies weekly delivered right up until it's demise at the end of 1965.
Scrimper,
I have boxes of old Hobbies magazines with the original plans. Must find the time to sort them! Many years ago I bought a fretwork machine off of a friend. This is a design I have never seen before or since. It has a cast frame that goes up and down on two shafts, in the base (all cast Iron) is the drive mechanism (electric motor) with the base filled with lubricating oil for the shafts etc. As in furniture making I needed a deeper throat, I had one cast for me. Each frame sits on top of the two shafts attached with two allen bolts, so easy to swap. The advantage to me is that the clamping arrangement allows tension to be altered to what ever suits the blade in use. I mainly used pierceing saw blades in my work but it will take coping saw or even junior hacksaw blades! As it languises in my barn awaiting a bit of TLC, I will see about photographing it.
I have boxes of old Hobbies magazines with the original plans. Must find the time to sort them! Many years ago I bought a fretwork machine off of a friend. This is a design I have never seen before or since. It has a cast frame that goes up and down on two shafts, in the base (all cast Iron) is the drive mechanism (electric motor) with the base filled with lubricating oil for the shafts etc. As in furniture making I needed a deeper throat, I had one cast for me. Each frame sits on top of the two shafts attached with two allen bolts, so easy to swap. The advantage to me is that the clamping arrangement allows tension to be altered to what ever suits the blade in use. I mainly used pierceing saw blades in my work but it will take coping saw or even junior hacksaw blades! As it languises in my barn awaiting a bit of TLC, I will see about photographing it.
