Fig. 9. the right way to use a hand scroll saw
When you want to saw a piece out of the inside of the board, take your awl and make a hole in it by giving it a twisting motion to prevent it from splitting the wood. Now unscrew one of the clamps of your saw frame and put the free end of the saw through the hole, clamp it in the frame and start to saw again.
A Few Other Helpful Things.
—A Hand Saw-Table.—You can saw out your designs much more easily and neatly if you use a hand saw table as shown in [Fig. 10]. This is a board about 4 × 6 inches on the sides with a V sawed out of one end and a clamp screwed to the bottom of it.
Fig. 10. a hand scroll saw table
This makes the end of the board project out from the table it is clamped to, raises the wood you are sawing from the surface of it and gives you a firm grip on it. You can easily make a saw table or you can buy one for 50 cents.[12]
[12] The Millers Falls Company, Millers Falls, Mass., makes them and nearly all tool companies sell them.
Files for Scroll Work.
—To do a really neat job at scroll sawing you should have a set of scroll saw files. These files are long and thin and are made round, oval, knife edge, half round and three cornered as shown at [A in Fig. 11].