The simplist way I've found to cut for the scallops on a blank is to cut from the the side into the centre of the blank, glue in your filler, then make your second cut up to the first filler from the opposite side of the blank, doing this gives a nice V & repeating it on the other two sides gives the half knot effect
This is the best picture I have of one I did
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