About Wooden Wonders Workshop

Hello and Welcome to Wooden Wonders Workshop. Wooden Wonders Workshop is the online home for Scroll Saw Artist and Pattern Designer: Richard Lee Neiden.  

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Richard Lee Neiden - Is a scroll saw pattern designer from Ohio. He is the owner and operator of Scrollers Choice Magazine. He is the CO-Founder and Creator of the North Eastern  Ohio Scrollers scroll saw club. He has served as club president since the creation of the club.
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My Scroll Saw Story:
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 I began scrolling when I was eleven. My father had a shop and I had grown up around woodworking since I was very little. Some of my favorite memories are making soap box racers with my dad and just helping him around the shop when I was little. My father is a woodworker and my grandfather was a carver and a woodworker as well. In total my grandfather probably carved 100-200 Santas in his lifetime. My dad grew up around my grandfather's shop as I grew up around my dad's shop.
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My love for scrolling was actually started when I was 10 or 11 yrs old. One weekend my grandfather my father and I all went to Hartville Hardware for their tool sale. This was before Hartville Hardware moved into the new store. There was a gentleman doing a scroll saw a demo. My grandfather asked him if he could have a copy of the pattern to take home. The gentlemen let my grandfather take a copy of the pattern home. Well, that pattern found its way to my Dads Delta and somehow I started cutting that snowflake pattern over and over until I could do it without breaking it. It wasn't long before I started looking for more patterns and books online. I found the MSN groups which are where I learned to make patterns. 
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And the rest is history. If it wasn't for my grandfather and my dad having shops I don't think I ever would have known what a scroll saw is. It is because of them both that I am a scroller, a pattern designer, a scroll saw magazine company owner, and a scroll saw club founder and president and a state ambassador for the SCROLL SAW ASSOCIATION OF THE WORLD and more recently a scroll saw Youtube Talk Show Host on Scrollers Chat. One of my favorite personal scrolling moments was when I would make a project and my grandfather and my father would tell me what a great job I did. 
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I've had many amazing scrolling moments over the years. From going with my father to my first scroll saw picnic ever in Lebanon PA, the birth of North Eastern Ohio Scrollers and serving as president. With the club, I helped host two Scroll Saw Picnics here in Ohio. It was at the first picnic here in Ohio that I met Bruce Worthington for the first time and we have been friends ever since. This was also the show that I met my friends Dirk and Karen Boleman. This would be the first and last time that Dirk and I ever hung out in person as the community would lose him a few years later. Karen and I remain friends to this day. I miss Dirk and I sometimes remember him when I see his patterns and projects. 

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I met my good friend Steve Good for the first time at the Wilmington Ohio SAW picnic many years ago and we've been friends every since.. Just last year I met two more of my idols Rick Hutchenson and Joe Adams. I gotta say it and I'm sorry if this comes out sappy but the scroll saw community is a family. My family and I want to thank each and every one of you out there ( you know who you are) each person who has supported me, taught me, inspired me, or supported the magazine or supported my youtube talk show scrollers chat, or just wrote me an email or Facebook message just to say hello. I could not have gotten this far into my scroll saw career without the love and support from each and every one of you so thank you. ...