Hello Members, just posted photos in The Group Album of The full-size Normandy
Grandfather Clock. A new design by John Nelson USA.  Test-cut and assembled by
Theo Kampes The "Scroller from OZ."

I have just posted 2 new free pattern downloads
on my website for February, both suitable for
Valentines day, which is the reason they're early. No
excuses!,these are quick and easy to start and finish both in an
evening.<br>Click now.... <a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a> and
you'll find them in the Free patterns link on my
homepage. Don't forget to visit our huge photo gallery of
finished scrollsaw projects from Australia, the photo link
to 270 piccies is also on my homepage.<br>Be good
and happy scrollsawin' Tom Manley.

Happy New Year! and I'm starting to feel better.
My free January pattern is ready to download at
<a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a><br>Very nautical this month,
a ships anchor with choice
of using a clock or barometer. For the new chums go
to my web page address and click free patterns link,
there are 7 pattern files plus download instructions.
Take care to deselect FIT TO PAGE in printer
properties before printing. Also on my web page is a photo
link, but be prepared it is the hugest collection of
finished scrollsaw projects on the web.<br>Happy scrollin'
Tom Manley (-:

It's a good feeling to be home this Christmas
morning after a few scary days in hospital. Have never
appreciated the Christmas music and our native birds singing
outside in the bush as much as I have today.<br>To all
our members here and in America and Canada,<br>Dianne
and I, wish you all and your families a very Merry
and safe Christmas day.<br>PS: and I'm over the moon
with our growing club membership!

Wishing all a happy and safe holliday.

under fretwork 2 and woodwork have a look and leave comments.<a
href=http://myscrollhobies.homestead.com/index.html
target=new>http://myscrollhobies.homestead.com/index.html</a>

Hi members, our board needs a Christmas dust
off!<br>Remember it is FREE for all to use for questions and
technical hints etc, it wont wear out! This is the only
scrollsaw club we have in Australia so make the most of its
message and photo facilities over the
holidays.<br>Decembers pattern is a Parrot desk photo frame or maxi
clock with directons for both, a little bit old world
having been based on a design from 1916.<br>go to my web
page <a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a> and take the
pattern link, if you are new to my page their are
downloading instructions in the folder and don't forget our
home page photo link to the largest collection of
finished scrollsaw project photos on the web, with a pile
more waiting to be added over Christmas.<br>"Happy
Scrolling and Merry Christmas", Tom Manley.

November freebie pattern is a scrollsawn Japanese
bowl stand. Visit Tom's web page
on<br><a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a> and click the free patterns
link in the left
column. There are also some new photo's on the photo
link. Will add a full tone portrait pattern too in the
next few days, they are the latest scrollsaw craze in
the states. Happy Scrollin' Tom Manley.

I have just finished uploading 36 photos of our
local wood club exhibition last weekend complete with
our scrollie gang demonstrating. Take the photo link
from my webpage <a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a>
and the photopoint album is titled November 2000. I
have also received another 60 or so scroll project
photos this week to upload shortly, but dragging the
chain a bit after my computer crash.<br>Happy Scrollin,
Tom.

My computer has decided to teach me the hard way
to be more diligent about backing up! I have lost
all my email contact addresses and all my
files.<br>Could my regular contacts please send a short message
to thomasrjm@... From now on I will
regularly back up important files, especially addresses to
my zip drive. Happy Scrolling, Tom Manley.

Hi Niel<br>I am patiently waiting for scrollsaw mag have been in touch by the
net I was told it would take four to six weeks.<br>Regards Peter

Hi Tom & Theo. Seen your note about the new
scrollsaw magazine and I took a punt and contacted Fox
Chapel and asked them if it they might send me a
complimentary copy as I was interested in it for our newly
formed South Oz Scrollers Group. Haven't received a
reply as yet. Will keep you posted.

Working with Wood show had definitely shrunk
again this year and I'm looking for interest in a small
group to demonstrate there next year ??<br>Our local
Eltham exhibition is next weekend with 4 scrollers
making dust, if you are looking for me check under the
benches, I'm exhausted from my commitee and cataloging
activities. But I'm feeling happy with our growing Oz
Scrollsaw membership, we're only 1300 members behind the US
Yahoo! club Scrollsawing LMAO :-) ,but they have been
going a lot longer.<br>How about posting the latest
news from your state or region each month on this
board ? It's even easier than sending an email. (ask
Theo the cyber newbie, he does it with his
thumbs)<br>Happy Scrollin' , Tom. ps: sorry theo.

Hi Theo, I received my copy of Scrollsaw workshop
from friends in the USA, haven't seen it locally yet
but may be available from bigger newsagencies such as
McGills in Melbourne. Subscriptions are available posted
here from Fox Chapel (USA) for USD27.95 on this URL
...
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br><a
href=http://www.carvingworld.com/Merchant/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=Fox\
&Category_Code=subfor
target=new>http://www.carvingworld.com/Merchant/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Co\
de=Fox&Cate
gory_Code=subfor</a> This would be about $57 Australian for 4 issues
posted to Australia. Hope this helps, Happy Scrollin' ,
Tom.

Hello Tom, It,s nice to hear there is a new
scrollsaw magazine out. Is it at all possible for you to
let Oz Scrollsaw members know where this new magazine
can be purchased or ordered from, hope to hear from
you soon. regards Theo, The Scroller From Oz.

I received a copy of Scrollsaw Workshop Quarterly
this week and pleased to report it is as good as
Creative Woodworks and Crafts, who seem to have lifted
their game a bit this month now there is a competitor
on the scene.

Hello, Please feel free to check out my new club.(scroll sawing art) More
pictures posted there.Thanks  Gary  ( littlegeneral_39355 )

Replying to all who has added an album very impressive work. The talents in ones
self is just incredible.

While you're at it look for a hidden file in your
root directory with KAK in the name. We hit a
variation of this one at work a few months back and even
though you get rid of the virus the hidden file still
remains then re-infects later on.<br>Herb<br>Happy
Scrolling<br><a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/scrollsawclocks
target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/scrollsawclocks</a>

If any members have received email with Active X
warnings, you have been infected with kak worm virus. This
only affects Outlook Express.<br>For the cure follow
directions on
..............<br><a
href=http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html
target=new>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html</a>
<br>download the cure file then visit ms
downloads
at<br><a
href=http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm
target=new>http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.ht\
m</a> <br>for the update patch.<br>You will not see
this monster in action until 5.00 pm November 1 when
it crashes windows. I apologise if I or other
members have passed it on, it is very new and my virus
scan could not detect it. ( blame outlook 5 security
loophole ) A quick check is to go to start menu / click
find files / type in kak / and search your hard drive.
If present it will be a 18kb html file, this was how
I located it. Other nerve settler is to visit the
symantec cure and download it by the instructions. Whether
present or not better play safe and install the patch
from microsoft if you use Outlook Express. Regards
Tom.

Well said Neil, I propose that we use this club
as the media for promoting local events and
communicating ideas etc, until the day we can form some sort of
national scrollsaw body with a bit of muscle behind it. Oz
scrollsaw club membership is a definite bargain and if we
feel the need for a picnic, grab a sandwich and a
cuppa tea while online. (it's ant free too!)<br>Happy
scrollin' ,Tom.

Tom. My comments about groups organising picnics
etc was in relation to a "national" festival or the
likes which I interpreted to be the intention of your
message no 27 when you advised that Wodonga had
cancelled. Yes running a local promotion/exhibition is a
great way to form a group and gain more members etc as
we have proved in South Oz and it would be great to
have a number of clubs across the nation. I would
encourage all clubs to run localised events for that is
where there strength in numbers and scrollsaw skills
comes from and it can be open to scrollers across the
nation. But if we are to run a true "national" event then
let it be co-ordinated and promoted across the
nation, effectively, involving all clubs by using their
local knowledge and
resources.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Neil S

The following message has now been posted to the
US boards and we are watching the hit counters going
crazy on photopoint, Theo's mega project is sure
attracting attention to Australian scrolling.<br>We hope our
members will visit too, and guys don't be too shy to use
this message board for info sharing and questions or
comments, that was our reason for starting it, let's
network and communicate.
Tom.<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>"St Theodores
Cathedral" or how to scrollsaw your way
to Heaven, was finally finished last weekend and the
first photo's of this 1200 hour "MEGA masterpiece of
scrollsawing penance", can now be viewed on the [latest photo
album 3] which has fast access from Tom Manley's
Australian Scrollsawing website.
<br><a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a><br>just click on photo's,
there are also free monthly
pattern downloads at the same addy, but sorry there are
no future plans for uploading St Theo's.<br>Happy
Scrollin' ,Tom Manley, Australia.

Hi Neil, I disagree with your concerns at groups
running off in differentdirections, but all must realize
their time and venue wont suit everyone in<br>the
scrolling community, so that attendance will be mostly on a
local level.This also applies to traders, attendance
numbers will be too low to interest them.There is not an
easy solution, I've spent 5 years trying to get things
happening here without much success, I'm not giving up but
from now on my energy is not leaving my local area
apart from my website and the club on the net, speaking
of which. Why aren't the members using it to network
? Same old story, the US clubs run hot on their
message boards, whereas ours is stagnant apart from you
and me posting announcements. To consider a scrollsaw
picnic weekend is a very scary undertaking based on
present numbers and a lack of real interest. Take a
lesson from the Wodonga experience, they picked up quite
a few new members in their localarea,plus<br>you
achieved a similiar result from Adelaide working with wood
show. When all these splinter<br>groups gain some size,
we may have a chance at forming a national body. I
spoke with Mark Prichard from the Canberra Guild
scrollsaw group only this week and the only event
mentioned, was their hope to run a demo at the new Canberra
W.W.W. show next year, if you would like to email him he
is now in the Ozscrollsaw member list (just
joined)<br>Regards, Tom.

Tom. Talking to Graham Waldron about the
cancellation of the Wodonga Show he indicated that the
Canberra Scrollsaw Group was looking at doing something.
Know anything about that. I believe we need to be
careful that we don't go running off in a dozen different
directions. I don't believe the network of scrollers is big
enough for a number of small events. Being part of an
exhibition at the Working with Wood shows are great for
promoting the scroll saw arts. However I would like to see
an event where scrollers can exhibit and network
more and compare notes. If a picnic is not going to be
supported by the traders could we run one based on
participants paying an entrance fee to attend<br>and getting a
couple of traders in would be a bonus? Just an idea I
have.<br>The new Adelaide group "South Oz Scrollers" is likely
to be demonstrating at its Timber & working with
Wood show in July 2001 as part of Woodgroup SA
participation.

Things are looking up slightly, if any members
are visiting Jeff's Shed for the Melb WW show please
lend me some moral support, I've been invited to host
2 seminars on scrolling at 5pm on saturday and
10.30am on sunday and will be armed with info leaflets
for our club (wish me luck!).<br>It has also been
suggested we hold demo's and a mini exhibition at the show
next year, I'm intending to follow this up asap,
hoping I can count on some volunteers. (yes! Theo your
name is top of the list already) Happy
scrollin'<br>Tom Manley.

To all members.. The 2001 Scrollsaw festival at
Wodonga has been officially cancelled this evening due to
lack of sponsorship funds. The VCWC festival at
Templestowe has also been cancelled due to venue and
organising problems. Let's hear some suggestions of a
scrollsaw picnic or an alternative event where we can
demonstrate and promote our hobby. I had thought of
approaching the Working with Wood shows organisers next year.
Any other ideas? Let's hear them. Happy Scrollin' ,
Tom.

This ornate welcome sign was Diannes idea and
came from a small picture in a 1920's fretwork
catalogue. She enlarged it on the copier, and cut a couple
for relatives and our woodwork club exhibition. We
have now re-drawn it as the October monthly pattern.
Take the trip
to......<br><a href=http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/thomasrjm/</a> and follow the instructions.
The September
patterns are still there and room for plenty
more.<br>"Happy Scrollin'", Tom Manley.

Tom Thanks for letting me know about the Delta Saw<br>I'll check on it Tueday.
Thanks again, Kevin.

Welcome Kevin and the other members who have
recently joined. My best advice is buy a new Delta, I
checked the new GST price with Carba tec a few days ago
and nearly fainted, it has dropped $100 now retailing
for $299. Acknowledged as the best machine for
beginner or advanced on a budget.<br>Stay away from
Fathers Day or Hardware shop specials (or you'll be
sorry!) Contact me or Carba-Tec, for further details.
Happy scrollin' Tom.