Raise the back of your saw one notch, set of holes, 3/4 inch piece of wood , whatever your situation needs. If it’s good great! If not you can always raise it more or put it back.
Two things:
1. I’m the wife, my house is dusty and I don’t care.
2. So when cutting the D would you start at the top of the D and go around the top to the right?
I have been playing with this recently. I mark the pattern with arrows. I have tried putting blue tape with arrows on my Saw table, I seem to forget about them. Mark your pattern with direction arrows. Also think about where would be the most convenient place to start and mark that for drilling.
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Found a link. They also have something called Scroll saw tape. Iggy might like that one.