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Electric scissors (or rotary finger removers)

2006-04-23 by Greg

My Dritz gets tired after cutting several times on German Etching, so
the rotary finger remover might still be the best choice. The big
problem with the style like my dritz is that you really need to oil
the blades to keep them sharp and cutting smoothly. You will of course
immediately see the problem with this. It does do a great job on
canvas though, so maybe it's just the wood fiber in the GE that
stresses it. And if you take a look at the Eastman cordless rotary
finger remover, they show the different blades. The four "sided" would
probably be perfect, the eight sided looks down right deadly!

If you really wanted to, you could probably fabricate a cutting guide
to attach to the printer, then you would just slide the cutter along
the guide to get a nearly perfect cut. Might require making a new foot
for the cutter, but that shouldn't be all that difficult.

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