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Look

Look

← back I've been watching shavings for years now and now it seems that they are looking back. I thought that I'd seen them all but just recently I was surprised by these angular spirals formed by trimming some cello rib with a paring chisel.

Cutting the purfling channel

Cutting the purfling channel

← back With a little determination and the right piece of wood you can do this in only a few strokes, I haven't yet lerned how to do corners in one stroke. If you could do that you could conceivably cut the entire channel in one and have a very decorative shaving to...