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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:25 pm 
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Ordered the same cutter in an 8 1/2" length. It arrived today and works like a charm!


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:30 pm 
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Barb wrote:
Ordered the same cutter in an 8 1/2" length. It arrived today and works like a charm!


...looks "letter perfect" to me... :D

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Wonderful, so true to the original. I had been looking at paper punch edgers to see if there were any that produced this effect but nothing, nada. Nice to know we now have an option.


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Are you rapping it with a mallet or are you placing it in some kind of an arbor press.

Looks interesting.


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Barb, that's great. Thanks for letting us know how it worked out. Not only fences, but also roof edges on certain houses.


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That is so cool!!


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I did buy an arbor press at Harbor Freight for not much money, and it worked ok on the smaller cutter once you get past all the grease. What I discovered though is it seems faster and cleaner to just use a hammer and a special pounding surface board (there is a real name for that I'm sure...) like you would use with an arch punch. A problem with the smaller cutter is lining it up correctly to make a continuous strip.. which is what led me to bite the bullet and buy a longer one.

If anyone out there is more mechanically/artistically inclined than I and wishes to purchase the small cutter for what I paid for it, let me know.


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Barb:

What did you need to submit to the Etsy store to get a die made.
Is the company easy to deal with. And good with the communications?


Steve


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I submitted a jpg of the cutter shape with a scale of inches so that they could get the correct height, width, etc. They could not be more pleasant/easier to deal with. Every time I emailed them I got a response the same day. After I sent the jpg they send a proof, and once approved, an invoice that you can pay using paypal, etc. Various shipping options, I chose the slow boat which still arrived within 8-10 days. According to the postage on it they pay a heck of a lot more to ship than they charge. They ship registered which requires a signature at delivery which is the only nuisance. My mailman was nice enuf to leave the pkg based on a note on the door, but I hear they don't all do that.


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Ran across this today.

Might be useful.

http://www.amazon.com/Sizzix-657215-Sha ... 89GSHJX33B


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