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Let's move on to a curved line. When cut-ring small curves it is easier to use one finger as a pivot and feed the wood with the other hand.

On the small curves it is very hard to use both hands to move the wood; the direction of the curve will dictate which hand should be used as the pivot and which one should do the feeding.

Sometimes I will start the cut on a straightcr section of the waste area. After cutting around the fret there is normally a small nib left.

You can use the burr on the right side of the blade as a file by turning the wood slightly at an angle to the right and then lightly sanding the nib off with perfect precision.

You may want to switch pivot hands while cutting an "S" curve. When making curve cuts, I place an imaginary point about 1/16" in front of the blade. This is the point Where the line that 1 am trying to follow should be. That means you need to rotate the wood, and not push it to the side, in order that the line always stays under that imaginary point.

Others prefer to start on a point such as the one shown here. If you drilled your hole in the right spot in the waste area, you would have a straight cut to this point.

With the line there, you will automatically follow it as you feed the wood straight at the blade. This takes some practice but becomes natural after a little while. Remember that one finger is used for a pivot and the other hand is used to rotate the wood around that pivot.

■BH^^ Don't be afraid to strctch your fingers out and hook I them over the edges of the wood. Even placing •<aSaij|H| your fingertips into some of the previously cut frets • . * can be a big help. If you don't have a good grip CijIf with the turning hand, the -qQ ; i \ wood will be hard to con-% ? ' trol. Some scrollers use ;• rubber fingertips (used

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If the drill hole wasn't quite in the right, place, you could loop the cut around in the waste area of the fret and still come in to a point for the beginning of the cut.