Scroll Sawing History in America

[Peculiar Fretworks]

Group Members,
Attached is at least one adobe .pdf file (have had some problems uploading!) which is the beginning of some articles that I will post on the history of Fretwork/Scroll Sawing in America.
I hope that this information will direct some attention and respect to those who came before us in this great hobby.

Comments or additional information appreciated.

Richard Preator
Peculiar Fretworks

[pete00]

Richard

That was interesting thanks for taking the time to post.
Looking forward to more.

[Peculiar Fretworks]

Scroll Sawing History in America

Group Members,
O.K., I have given up trying to post the article to the web site. Some problem with the site timing out during my upload. I have posted the first segment of the History to my web site.

http://www.peculiarfretworks.com/HL Wild.pdf

This is a fairly large file, so if you are on a slow connection like I am it will take some time to load.

Richard Preator

[BobD (Archive)]

Thanks for posting it to your site, Richard...I'm not sure what's going on with the site lately...but I'll see if I can't get it straightened out!

Bob

[Marcel in Longueuil]

Hi Richard,

The reason you can't attach the file is because of it's size.
You are limited to 4.77Mb for a .pdf type file, your file is 5.67Mb in size.

Thanks for the thread, nice!

Regards,
Marcel

[ozarkhillbilly]

Thanks Richard for the interesting read! I'm looking forward to the others.....

I think Rich H. might have some of these saws in his collection or at least closely related.

[Peculiar Fretworks]

Upload issue

Hi Marcel,
I tried sending files under 3mb in size and they failed, the only file I was able to upload was about .8mb. I have plenty of room on my site for the files.

Richard

Hi Richard,

The reason you can't attach the file is because of it's size.
You are limited to 4.77Mb for a .pdf type file, your file is 5.67Mb in size.

Thanks for the thread, nice!

Regards,
Marcel

[Rhyan]

I tried the link to your site and got a page not found I am very interested in this artical. I think it might help me greatly. (sorry about this spelling its late at night)

Rhyan

[Paul S WI]

Rhyan - Try this for Peculiar's website.

https://www.peculiarfretworks.com/History.html

[Jim8Mad]

History plus more

You just never know what you will find on Ebay these days. I didn't expect to see this. It starts out with some history behind the scroll saw. Then it goes into a long discussion about scroll saws, differences, and a bit on how to use them. It's sort of hard to read because it's not broken into paragraphs, but it's sort of interesting none the less.