And so, the scroll carving adventure begins. The first step in carving the first turn of the scroll is make several cuts to remove excess wood using a Japanese saw.
The rough cut first turn looks as follows:
Then, gouges are used to clean up the curve (although more cleanup will be necessary later):
The same process is carried out on the other side of the scroll. When finished, the roughed out first turn looks as follows:
I like the scroll vise. it looks like a great idea.
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