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Islands,
held in place.

Cut an O out of a stencil sheet and its middle falls out. This tool adds a small bridge to islands like that, so they stay attached to the rest of the sheet.

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One island. One cut.

The triangle inside an A is an island. A single straight slot down through the middle of the crossbar ties it to the space between the legs, and the letter still reads as an A.

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Bridges can chain.

The upper island opens straight up beside the stem. Once it is open, the lower island breaks through the middle bar into it, so both escape along one line.

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The cut follows the curve.

Here the eye of the e gets a slot pushed out square to the curve at every point, so it widens toward the outside like a slice of a ring, opening through the top of the eye.

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Open at the top.

A lone, symmetrical island has no better side, so it breaks at the top, through the thin part of the ring.

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Two islands, mirrored.

Each island opens away from the waist, one straight up and one straight down, so the figure stays symmetrical and the crossing stays solid.

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Flush against the stem.

The island has a straight edge where it meets the stem, so its slot sits flush against it: a clean rectangular cut rather than a notch in the curve.

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Away from the tail.

The bridge goes where the island bulges farthest from the centre of the letter: up through the top of the bowl, well clear of the tail.

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Two islands, two exits.

Each island gets its own bridge: the upper loop opens straight up through its top, and the lower island opens straight down through the bottom of the bowl.

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