** Next, using your hobby knife make a shallow cut along your cutting guide.(Note: you don't have to cut all the way through the outer cladding, just most of the way.) Try not to cut the inner fiber, to insure that you do not, it takes some practice. Take a piece of scrap fiber and begin cutting the outer cladding. The inner fiber feels much softer then the outer cladding, the only way to tell is it just cut through your test fiber. [[Image:Stripped Cladding.JPG|thumb|Fiber with Cladding Striped]] | ** Next, using your hobby knife make a shallow cut along your cutting guide.(Note: you don't have to cut all the way through the outer cladding, just most of the way.) Try not to cut the inner fiber, to insure that you do not, it takes some practice. Take a piece of scrap fiber and begin cutting the outer cladding. The inner fiber feels much softer then the outer cladding, the only way to tell is it just cut through your test fiber. [[Image:Stripped Cladding.JPG|thumb|Fiber with Cladding Striped]] |