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I bought a recent issue of Woodcarvers magazine, and there is an article in there about making wooden frogs.. the kind with a dowel that you run down the back to make music. I had seen these somewhere for sale before.... I'd love to learn to make them but the tools needed include a coping saw... erm whatever that is. Has anyone else seen these before? I am kind of wondering if the process couldn't be done without fancy saws, as I have no workshop to facilitate such. I am also kind of wondering whether the pattern could be altered to make other types of creatures but still retain the relative musicality of the figure.
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3/31/2009, 9:48 pm
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I was just at a Garden Festival recently where they had those. A kid was playing one and I actually grabbed my mom's arm and said "do hear the frog?"  I thought it was real!
A coping saw is hardly a fancy tool. It's like a hack saw but with a wider space between the blade and the support. It's really pretty important for making intricate cuts (the bumps on the back I imagine and possibly starting the mouth). They are cheap and very useful:
Coping Saw and Wood Rasp Kit
I don't know what other noises you cold produce...maybe a cricket kind of noise. That would be nice! I guess the cavity would just need to be smaller and the bumps close together.]
Ha! Look what I just found:
Guess I'm not as creative as I thought!
Check out the site I found that on. They also have pigs, lizards, hooting owl whistles and trumpeting elephants (links on the left).
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Yikes I dunno if I could reproduce anything like that. I bet it takes a while to find the right pieces of wood for the job.
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Yeah - if a coping saw is what they recommend, I'd get one. They're not very expensive (under ten dollars - probably closer to five), and are sold in any hardware store.
I love those little frogs! I actually have one... well, I bought it for my daughter, but I just gave it to her so I would have an excuse to buy one...
The one I have has a hole in the middle, which I think has something to do with the tone it makes. That might be what you need the coping saw to cut out. The coping saw is a lot like the jeweler's saw I use to cut metal, only somewhat larger. You can unhook one end of the blade and push it through a hole in the material you are cutting, then reconnect the loose end of the balde to the saw. That allows you to do cuts inside a piece of wood (or metal for the jeweler's saw) without cutting in from the edge.
If that's what it's used for on the frog, you might be able to use a big drillbit and drill out the inside, but, in the long run, I think the coping saw would end up being much easier... and, based on the cost of great big drillbits, the coping saw would end up being cheaper too.
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Oy I hope the blades don't snap as easily as jewlers saw blades... I had a college introductory class in jewlery and I can't count the number of tiny saw blades that snapped on me when they hit a bur or snagged the silver. Oh the humanity! Don't even get me started on the whole soldiering thing. I had zero luck with that. About the only thing I did like was the lost wax casting, but I goofed that by choosing a bronze that had issues.
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