diecut?

[futurexrockstar]

hello

someone would have a special technique for making diecut on my base?

[Yuki_otoko]

Ive seen a few dye cut templates for cardboard.
These are a sheet of wood with the shape cut into it.
A strip if thin metal sheet is glued into this cut. The metal sticks out from the wood. The metal is shapened like a knife.
The dye is placed on top and pressed down.
The sheet of wood underneath also has the shape cut into it.

Futurerockstar, does this make sense?

[knightsofnii]

a cookie cutter!!

we're thinking of cheap homebuilt ways of doing this to cut base shapes too as well as diecut graphics, etc.

could be loaded in a press with say 2-3 sheets of base material and stamped down.

[knightsofnii]

though even if you can get it wicked sharp i think you have to account for loss of some thickness and you probably want inner and outer cutting tools for whatever shape/graphic you're going for.

[Yuki_otoko]

though even if you can get it wicked sharp i think you have to account for loss of some thickness and you probably want inner and outer cutting tools for whatever shape/graphic you're going for.

Yeah I thought about this too. But I was thinking that because the base is soft enough, it should just spread it apart a little (providing the metal is thin enough and sharpenough) then hopefully it would relax/spring back into place. If not I would think a quick run over with the hot wax iron would straighten out the deformed polymer structure from cutting. After all the iron is enough to expand and open up the pores to except the wax.

At the bottom of the graphics page over at Graphsnowboards, Dan uses a paper die cutter (same principle) and this works fine. Even if there was the slightest of gaps between both, would this help it bond better? Not leaving a weak point to start tearing as the expoxy is all around it.

Anyway, cant really find out until trying it... perhaps I should give it a go on a test sample

[mpm32]

Look at scrapbooking supplies, they have die cutters that would probably work.

[mattman]

we did all of our base graphics with a diecutter at a local scrapbooking store (see journal). it only costs us $5 for a half hour session and we have all of their dies to choose from or can pickup special ones on ebay for a couple bucks. if buying a special one, try to get the wood backed Accucut and Ellison dies, not the thinner ones like most Sizzix that are just intended for paper...base material will kill those.