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Hi everyone first time poster here. I'm a new scroller and have taken much of the advice from reading this board and others and am currently working my way through the scroll saw workbook by John Nelson.
I've done well through the first few excercises and have now made it to the first fretwork piece the butterfly. Exercise #4. Man that thing is the tuffest thing I've ever tried to do.
Needless to say my first attempt at it was a complete butcher job. Hopefully some of you can shed some light. A few things I discovered along the way.
1. I drilled out my for my fret pieces, and the first thing I've discovered is that the drill frays the paper and packing tape a bit and can result in masking exactly where some of my lines are...how do I correct this?
2. There's alot of tight corners in this what are some of the ways people have tackled tight v type turns?
3. I'm learning to go slow and so far I can tell that it's almost best to keep moving the whole time as opposed to stop and back up to where I wandered off the line, as that almost always means I'm gonna have a bump or something like it as opposed to a nice smooth cut surface, I'm sure it's just more practice as if i seem to cut inside the line and try to make way back to the line, sometimes the blade corrects itself nicely and other time too quickly it's a tricky feel...
Any help and tips?
Thanks,
Troy
Hi everyone first time poster here. I'm a new scroller and have taken much of the advice from reading this board and others and am currently working my way through the scroll saw workbook by John Nelson.
I've done well through the first few excercises and have now made it to the first fretwork piece the butterfly. Exercise #4. Man that thing is the tuffest thing I've ever tried to do.
Needless to say my first attempt at it was a complete butcher job. Hopefully some of you can shed some light. A few things I discovered along the way.
1. I drilled out my for my fret pieces, and the first thing I've discovered is that the drill frays the paper and packing tape a bit and can result in masking exactly where some of my lines are...how do I correct this?
2. There's alot of tight corners in this what are some of the ways people have tackled tight v type turns?
3. I'm learning to go slow and so far I can tell that it's almost best to keep moving the whole time as opposed to stop and back up to where I wandered off the line, as that almost always means I'm gonna have a bump or something like it as opposed to a nice smooth cut surface, I'm sure it's just more practice as if i seem to cut inside the line and try to make way back to the line, sometimes the blade corrects itself nicely and other time too quickly it's a tricky feel...
Any help and tips?
Thanks,
Troy
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