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LOL!

Janine — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:17:33 -0400

"Contact tab" me! :-D

:D

Sara — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:35:10 -0400

any chcance of you whipping up some nice totes after you cut some hipster cards? ;)

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Once again...

Janine — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:33:22 -0400

...quilting saves my life. LOL!

I pulled out one of my dozen or so self-healing mats, a 6"x12" ruler, and a rotary cutter. Perfect cuts every time, I can easily make my hipster pages *exactly* 3"x5", it's fast, and I already have all the tools.

The guillotine's going to my SU! upline's garage sale next week. So long, uncooperative trapezoid-maker!

Hold down hard!

corriespondent — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:52:36 -0400

I do what Sara suggested -- make sure a straight edge is up against the top of the cutter, then carefully and firmly push down at the bottom part of the paper so it doesn't slide when I bring the arm down to cut the paper. I usually get pretty good results this way.

maybe

Sara — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:34:01 -0400

if the lighter paper is giving you the problems, maybe try paperclipping a few pieces together or binder clipping em and try to do it that way (?)

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Nifty!

Janine — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:26:35 -0400

Great idea. I'll keep this in mind if I ever get this thing to cut well! :-)

Trapezoids <> good pages

Janine — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:25:57 -0400

I have a bar like that on my cutter. It helps, but doesn't solve the problem.

I tried cutting some cardstock and I got much better results. I think maybe this particular cutter likes 110lb paper better than the 65lb paper I was using for my hipster forms.

Try laying a ruler down on your cutting base

Passionate_Pilgrim — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:10:11 -0400

My cutter has a lever to press down to hold the paper in place while cutting. My cutter before did not have such a device. I used a ruler (I discovered not to use my favorite ruler after a sorrowful experience one slice) on top of the paper, aligning it parallel to the cutting blade, press down with your left hand while lowing blade with your right. If you don't jerk your left hand, you should get a 90 degree cut.

Parallelograms are not cool in a binder -- trapezoids are even worse.

The Passionate Pilgrim

What I did to get fairly

Pudah — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:11:19 -0400

What I did to get fairly straight cuts was take a piece of painter's tape and stick it on the bed of the paper cutter over the preprinted rule marks at the 5 1/2" mark. I then took a ruler and measured from the cutting edge over exactly 5 1/2" and made a mark on the painter's tape with a very sharp pencil. Did the same several inches further down the cutting edge, being very careful to line the ruler up exactly the same way as for the previous mark. It is helpful if you have a wide ruler that you can line up with the cutter edge. I then very carefully drew a line on the painter's tape connecting the two marks.

When I need to cut paper, I line it up with the mark on the painter's tape so that the edge of the paper just kisses the line drawn on the tape. When the paper is cut, it's pretty square in the corners.

You might have to erase and redraw the line a few times and cut up a bunch of paper to get it right. But once you do, you have a good reference point for all future cuts.

HTH

Thanks!

Janine — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:06:23 -0400

I'll give that a try. *crossing fingers* ;-)

advice

Sara — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:00:15 -0400

My advice is to slide that paper up to the top thing and then slap your hand down and press as hard as you can... if it still has issues, the blade may need sharpening (?) ... just watch out for your fingers :D

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Yes. I also tried cutting

Janine — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:30:08 -0400

Yes. I also tried cutting two and three sheets, but that's even worse than just one.

hmmm

Sara — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:31:48 -0400

do you cut one sheet at a time?

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Guillotine-style paper cutters...help!

Janine — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:27:59 -0400

I have a small guillotine-style paper cutter and I am unable to make a right angle with the darned thing. What should I be doing to make the paper lay flat while I chop its head off? I would really like to be able to cut rectangles with it. All these wacky quadrilaterals with >90 or <90 corners look very strange in my hipster. :-(

D*I*Y Planner - Guillotine-style paper cutters...help! - Comments

LOL!

:D

Once again...

Hold down hard!

maybe

Nifty!

Trapezoids <> good pages

Try laying a ruler down on your cutting base

What I did to get fairly

Thanks!

advice

Yes. I also tried cutting

hmmm

Guillotine-style paper cutters...help!

DIY Planner - Guillotine-style paper cutters...help! - Comments