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« on: February 12, 2016, 06:11:45 am »
Daniel, I am new too, Santa brought my saw. Things I found that helped, some were suggestions from the good people here were: relax your shoulders and breathe, concentrating makes you tense up and the blade feels it.
If you have used a jig saw or power saw in the past, the scroll saw is different. Power sawing you look ahead where you want to cut, the scroll saw you have to look at the point where the blade hits the wood or maybe 0.5cm ahead of it. If you move your eyes the saw seems to take over.
I took the foot off the saw and that helped too, the part that rides on the wood to "hold it down"
Tip the whole saw toward you, I put wood under the rear legs of the saw, what a difference that made, I have about 9 cm under the rear.
We all have a dominant eye, sit or stand so that the dominant eye is in line with the cut line. If you need to know how to determine the dominant eye let me know.
Take a break every so often and walk around.