Good technical term there....dig
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Are you talking about cutting a new coin door, basically a big hole in some wood? If you are you simply mark out the "hole" you want to cut. Drill through a corner of the outline then, using the hole just drilled, you can jigsaw (pendulum saw) the required shape out.