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  • If you cut shingles with scissors, always start at the short-grain and finish on the long-grain (as for the piece on the left in this picture). The piece on the right will splinter...
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  • ...but the piece on the left will be fine
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  • Use the starter shingle as a template to cut 56 valley shingles
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  • You can use a razor saw or a fine-toothed hack saw to cut shingles
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  • A saw leaves both pieces intact (useful in some dollhouses, but not here)
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  • The Starter Course is on, the Valley Shingles can all be applied now. Line up the angled edge with the 'shingle-edge guideline'
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  • The Starter Course will hold the First Course at the same shingle-angle as the rest of the roof's shingles
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  • The first full course of shingles overlaps the starter course and comes to the roof's edge
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  • Keep the glue squeezings in the top 1/4" so the next course will cover them
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  • A cut shingle finishes the course --- marked...
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  • ...split...
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