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SG

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Cutting a roll of paper
« on: July 20, 2011, 01:26:40 am »

Is it possible to cut a roll of paper in two halves?
How would you do that?
Thanks.
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Re: Cutting a roll of paper
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 01:35:58 am »

It took me a bunch of attempts at searching, but I finally found the previous threads on the topic:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=40959.0
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=32400.0

The trick was searching for "bandsaw roll". None of the other terms (cut roll, cutting rolls, chop rolls) came up with them. Weird.

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Re: Cutting a roll of paper
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 01:47:44 am »

Thanks Neil!
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Re: Cutting a roll of paper
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 06:50:07 am »

My favourite poster media is often unavailable in 42" rolls so I pretty regularly cut 50" rolls down using an ordinary hand saw - so long as it's sharp and fairly fine toothed it works well and makes a lot less mess than a powered saw, no problem with depth of cut either. The cut edge isn't perfect and I always cut the left hand end off so the printer is detecting the factory cut edge during loading. The tricky thing is to cut the roll square - I tape the roll either side of the cut and use a piece of A4 paper taped tightly round to provide a guide.
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Re: Cutting a roll of paper
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 10:44:03 am »

William, you may try a miter box next time: http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-20-112-Clamping-Mitre-Box/dp/B00009OYGB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311173023&sr=8-1. It'll get you straight cuts without all the fuss of tape and whatnot.

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Re: Cutting a roll of paper
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2011, 02:12:56 pm »

William, you may try a miter box next time: http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-20-112-Clamping-Mitre-Box/dp/B00009OYGB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311173023&sr=8-1. It'll get you straight cuts without all the fuss of tape and whatnot.

Neil

Yea I made one to cut backdrop paper rolls for mobile studio shoots. Still a bit rough but it's the most economically sensible option.
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