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To shave the capes, sit behind the shaving wheel, with the back of it to your chest, and your arms reaching around it. Grasp the cape in two hands and pull it from left to right against the spinning blade. Never operate your blade without the guards in place. Stop every so often to sharpen your blade (which means to adjust the angle that the blade is rolled over). You shouldn't have to lean into the shaving part. If everything's adjusted right, touching the the cape to the blade will cut it, and moving it from left to right will zing it off in a strip. We prefer to not shave the faces with the wheel, but we do thin the faces with a skinning knife at the desk. You're shooting for 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch left on the cape, and whatever depth it is, it should be uniform all over the cape. (If it is thick up on the neck seam, it will be hard to sew later. If it is too thin, the thread will cut it when you pull it through. Just a few more things to worry about while you're learning how to do this.) |
