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How to Make Your Own Flogger Continued
See figure 2. Now you will need to mark the lines for cutting the tails. The rectangle will be divided into two parts, the handle side, and the tail side. The handle side will need to be the length of your handle, plus an inch. Measure this out down the length side of the rectangle, and make a line across the middle of the rectangle. This line appears red in figure 2. Your tails will be cut from this line towards the right side of the rectangle.
See figure 3. Lay your ruler along the line you just made, the red one in figure 2. Start measuring the width of your tails out from the left, making a tick mark where the beginning of each new tail will be. If they are going to be a third of an inch wide, there will be a tick mark every third of an inch. Now lay your ruler along the right end of the rectangle and do the same as you did along the red line. See figure 3.
Next you will use these tick marks as a guide for your ruler. Line up the ruler with the first tick mark on each line, and draw a line to connect the two. See figure 4.
To begin cutting, you may want to cut the tails out before the rectangle. It can be hard to cut the tails near the edges when there is little leather between the knife and the edge of the leather.
First, lay the part of leather that you will be cutting across the cutting pad that you've bought. Start with one side of the tails. Lay your ruler alongside the line you have made and press it down very firmly with your hand. WARNING: be sure your fingers are not in the way. Use your rotary cutter or carpet knife to cut along the line, using the ruler as a guide. Start at the line that is red in the picture above, and cut down towards the end of the rectangle. Do not cut into the handle side of the rectangle.
Now use your ruler as a guide again and cut out the rectangle.
