Author: cjwright
Date: 2008-09-24 20:20
I keep my thumb on the very edge of the handle, barely hanging off the end of it. My thumb however is NOT on the blade, pushing down.
In David Weber's Reedmaker's Manual, he talks about some interesting concepts which might help you. He says to scrape like you're scratching an itch, not to scrape to bleed. His scraping concept is to scrape in layers, and rather than "digging deeper here to take more cane off", he suggests "scraping with the itch scrape to take off more layers of cane, i.e. more strokes with a terracing effect".
Just something to think about.
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