Maybe it would be worthwhile to have one of the bigger ones. My little one has two blades too, but you have to cut down the big piece to get it to fit in so you can use the straight cutter.
--shannon On Apr 3, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Tim Rudman wrote:
Possibly not much help Shannon, but I use a professional cutter which has 2 blades, one for bevel(windows) and one straight. The big ones are costly but they do make this job so much easier they are worth it if you can find onesay on Ebay. Even with these big boards they are easy as you can makerepeated sweeps of the blade and nothing else moves. I wasted so much time and also messed up so many boards before I got one I wondered why I hadn't bought one years before (like so many other things!), I've seen some good bargains for these on Ebay at times as not too many people are after them.Tim -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chauncey Walden Sent: 03 April 2008 19:34 To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: best tool for cutting matboard Shannon Stoney wrote:I am framing some prints today, and I have to cut the matboard beforecutting the window, but I do it on a self healing mat because the 32x40matboard is too big to fit in my little mat cutter. What is the besttool for this preliminary cutting? I was taught to use an exacto knife,but I have to make many swipes with the blade before the pieces comeapart, and I'm thinking there must be a better tool for this. Like maybea box cutter? I saw one with a pistol grip the other day at an art store. An employee was using it to cut cardboard. What do people on this list use?I use a hand held rotary cutter against a heavy straight edge on a self healing mat. Chauncey======================================================================= ======================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to youraccount (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.======================================================================= ====================================== To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.
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