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3.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to hold but not as easy to cut with, October 29, 2009
This review is from: Scotch(TM) Precision Cutter 171 (Office Product)
You have to have just the right angle for this to cut or it doesn't work right. While it is easy to hold, the actual tip is much bigger than the super small ceramic cutting point. This throws your perception off because you think you have more cutting area than you really do. So like I said in my title "easy to hole but not easy to cut with". If you don't have it positioned just right, you don't cut anything. I find it actually a bit more difficult for smaller more precise areas because of the tip not being able to see the actual blade point. This is just an OK item.
UPDATE: 1/22/2010
I used it about 3 or 4 times and today tried to cut a simple regular piece of paper and the tip snapped and broke. I'm thinking that this thing wasn't right from the get-go either by design or defect. I sent a letter to Scotch letting them know, we'll see what they say.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
FIXED! -- You Have To See Where Your Going!!!, July 27, 2010
This review is from: Scotch(TM) Precision Cutter 171 (Office Product)
I fixed it... the big fat design flaw that Scotch managed to overlook.
How can you cut in a straight line if you can't tell which way is straight?
Well, the story is that I'd bought one of these, but it threw me into fits because I could never manage to get it to cut straight. Eventually, I got it in my mind that the cutter must be crooked, and I figured I was done with the thing.
But, there really is a need for a product just like this one... well, what this one should be. Other cutters I have, even fancy frisket cutters, just don't quite solve the problem of precision cutting.
So, I bought another... crossing my fingers that I would get one that didn't have a crooked cutter.
Well, I was prepared for disappointment, so I didn't throw a fit when I couldn't get it to cut straight. Instead, I had a much closer look... under a big, fat magnifier. And, there it was, the design flaw--the big, fat, fatal (almost) design flaw. The end face of the tip that houses the cutting blade IS NOT... (DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN)... rectangular (SHOCK, AW, JAW DROPPED TO THE FLOOR, DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS, GLAZED OVER STARE). That tip is more of a trapezoid (like an isosceles triangle with the tip broken off--WHAT FOOLS).
Well, that just will not do. At least, it won't work for anyone expecting the tip to tell you which way it's pointed. Seriously, there are plenty of us who expect to have a tool that we can use to follow a line or curve, and we expect to be able to point that tool in the direction of that line or curve by sight. But, that tip doesn't point where the cutter wants to go, and you end up fighting it as it slips hopelessly off course. SO MUCH WASTED MATERIALS; SO MUCH WASTED TIME... AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
And, there would be absolutely no hope of using such a tool with any kind of a straight edge... EVER. The cutter is either going to pull away from the straight edge or it would push in and produce a ragged cut (if it didn't push the straight edge itself off course because you didn't clamp it down with a vice). I know I'm dating myself, but I learned drafting before the proliferation of CAD programs. A real precision tool would include a parallel surface that would work well against a straight edge, t-square, triangle, and such--just like all the precision tools of the past.
It's a design flaw... a big, fat, ugly design flaw.
So, why am I giving this product four stars? (GRIN)
I FIXED IT!!! (BIG, FAT, GLOATING, GRIN)
I took a nail file to the tip, and I straightened the silly thing out. Seriously, I changed the angle of that edge. Now I can cut a straight line. I dig that cutter into to a line on a bar code and cut it right down the middle (GRIN). It even seems to work adequately with a straight edge (BIGGER GRIN), though I'm a bit surprised about that (TWISTED GRIN). This is the precision I was looking for; this is the control that I was expecting to find in the first place (SMILE OF DEEP SATISFACTION).
O.K., so I probably weakened the tip. Maybe the cutter will pop out well before it wears out. But, I don't care; it's worth it to get the tool that I was looking for all along--even if it won't last that long. I'll probably buy more--just so long as I don't run out of finger nail files.
My final wish:
Scotch,
Please create an improved version designed specifically for working with straight edges and french curves. I doubt you could get one to work with small templates, but it would be awesome if you could (and, no I don't want another damn swivel cutter).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent paper cutter, December 4, 2009
This review is from: Scotch(TM) Precision Cutter 171 (Office Product)
Cuts paper very well. Much easier to use than scissors for intricate curved cuts and long straight cuts.
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