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CORNERS your wood into the blade from this angle, ihe cut is tracking (leading) right in line with your sight line to the blade. J think you will find it easier to feed a line into the blade from this position, rather than trying to feed at an angle from the front of the saw. Now for that straight cut... just line up the line with the blade and hold onto the wood with both hands. Then feed the wood with both hands straight at the blade. If you feed straight, you will make a straight cut. Most scrollers think they should be standing directly in front of the saw. which makes them feed in at an angle to the blade. But feeding straight at the blade makes cutting easier. Practice Makes Perfect Suppose you have found when cutting that following the line is getting easier, but you are still having a few problems making an even cut. Let's take a look at a few tips that may help you and try to learn some of the techniques that I use in production cutting. Always remember to practice, too. ,There is just no way around that. f hard for some people. To I mfkf a easier> I the table, feed it straight ll> HhH -nto, ak°ut an ' ; not move the wood. Now I lay a ruler along the cut B and see if it lines up with I Notice how the blade prob- ijjm I facturmg process, and is sometimes referred to as ii l'l i' >l il - > H ' This should place you a lit- mmm It wouldn't be fretwork without holes, and I find the easiest way to drill them is right on the table. I use a scrap of 1/2" or 3/4" wood as a backer board on the saw tabic and. with a handheld flexible shaft, drill away. Some saws, such as the Excalibur, have a shaft built into them for attaching a flexible drive, or you can use one attached to a Drcmcl Moto Tool, Foredom. or the like. 1 find it faster and easier to drill with this tool, instead of taking the wood to the drill press. Different size collets are available for these tools to hold even the smallest drill bits. Where to drill the hole has always been a question for many. Sometimes 1 think about it as 1 drill, but normally 1 just drill in the area close to the line. 20 • Creative Woodworks & Crafts January 2005 |
