Charlie Jones Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 IF there are any of you out there who have NOT discovered the roller style cloth cutters ( sold in Walmart FOR 9.97) for cutting fiberglass, run don't walk to your nearest cloth sales outlet and BUY one. JT Weigandt , who posts on here occasionally, tipped me about them. WOW!!! I cut about 50 strips today in about 15 minutes, using the roller cutter and a steel straight edge-ONE roll across the fabric and I had a straight, clean edged cut. I should had one of these 20 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt jake Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 I should had one of these 20 years ago. Problem with that is they weren't around back then. Tom Lathrop turned me onto that also. I bought one. Darndest thing though, I haven't had a project to use it on yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnacle Jim Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 Ahoy Charlie, Thanks for the tip. I hate cutting fiberglass. Even when I write about cutting fiberglass, I start to scratch. Whenever I cut, there is always some untidy string somewhere, the one you don't see until you begin to apply the epoxy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kydocfrog Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 These things are great, but they are a lot more than the kind of upscale pizza cutters they resemble. They are unbelievably sharp and exposed. I know. I removed the end of finger with one one evening. DocFrog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Lathrop Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 These things are great' date=' but they are a lot more than the kind of upscale pizza cutters they resemble. They are unbelievably sharp and exposed. I know. I removed the end of finger with one one evening. DocFrog[/quote'] Doc, That's why they put the sliding plastic guard on them. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kydocfrog Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 Right. But the guard isn't in place when you are cutting and the &(*& thing hits a bump and jumps over the edge of your metal staight edge right at your index finger that is busy holding the straight edge. It is a major ouch. Or as we used to say in the military an "Aw-Fooey" or words to that effect. DocA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Lathrop Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 My sympathies Doc, but I don' use no stinkin' straightedge. As old Strother Martin might say, what we have here is a steering problem. I tried to do away with the end of a finger also, but on another machine. :oops: More seriously, I sometimes lay down a black marker line on the cutting board that can be seen through the cloth and cut to that. A plank or 2X4 held down nearby will keep the cloth from creeping. The backing board can be most anything that you don't plan to use in a critical job later, MDF, CDX or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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