Hi Phil
...the tut is going great, no showstopping hitches so far which is superb for a tutorial. Thats always a major thumbs up. I've learned lots of little things as well as the main spline/patching skills. Drag tool, merging splines, splitting splines, working on different layers...all hugely educational
I thought I it might be helpful to share my thoughts on what could be improved too. After all I am a total noob, and if anyone can give you an insight on what bits were hard to follow it will be me!
Firstly, it would be really handy to have a little intro to any new tools or techniques when you start using them. That would have been handy in a couple of places: Like where to find bandsaw pro. That threw me. Luckily a quick look in the forums helped there though. I thought that since bandsaw was the only bandsaw option in the main menus that it was all we got 'free' with LW. :/ The other place some early hints would have helped would have been regarding how to use CTRL-F to patch the splines - you leapt straight into patching without really mentioning how to do it. Luckily it was one thing I had already learned about, so I knew what was happening there. Some pointers about looking out for poly directions and fixing problems with the infamous message: "curves do not cross correctly" would have been infinitely helpful too. That stumped me by patch number 3 or 4 i think ;o) It was message boards to the rescue there too (yay for the SLW community!).
Finally, when you say what a shortcut is, sometimes its hard to hear 'cos of the audio compression. It might be nice to say "CTRL-T for tango" ...some of those have left me thinking was that CTRL-Z, B, T, or D? Just a thought. I've usually figured it out with a little trial and error with the "u" key, but it all helps.
...and I'm done. Back to splines for me (really enjoying this, I wish I had more time to do tuts!!)