[pokersupplyusa]

What does everyone use for trimming excess transfer paper when doing heat transfer on a white shirt ??? xacto knife ??? expensive cutters ??

any help would be great

Thanks , Scott

 

[badalou]

Re: Newbie

A pair of $2.98 scessors..And I do it nicely..

 

[Teeshirtman]

Re: Newbie

Yeah
A pair of sharp ones that i only use for this pupose.
if your border is white and you leave that 1/8 border on white tees the
cutting line becomes invisable

fred

 

[tandami]

Re: Newbie

Yes, I use a nice pair of sharp kid-size scissors that have the pointy tip. It makes it easier for me to manuever around the tight areas.

 

[Victoria]

Re: Newbie

I find the Xacto Knife gives me the best and fastest results.

 

[degame10]

Re: Newbie

I use a pair of kids scissors too. It works great!

 

[DFras]

Re: Newbie

I use a papercutter to "chop" off any large blank area, then scissors to trim close to the image.

 

[Shuffy]

Re: Newbie

I use a papercutter to "chop" off any large blank area, then scissors to trim close to the image.

Ditto


Diane

 

[suzieh]

• Good scissors that I use for paper only
• Fiskars scissors that are tiny used for cutting fine detail (decoupage)
• Olga rotary cutter and omnigrid ruler (used in quilting)
• Exacto knife with omnigrid ruler or traditional metal drafting ruler with cork in back
• Cutting mat...have various sizes

 

[andyboy]

I'm totally an Xacto with a metal ruler and a self-healing cutting mat guy.
I keep my borders in straight lines to make it easier to work with. Tried other shapes with scissors---that requires patience and a steady hand. I have neither.

 

[hammered]

I love my Xacto blade. I can detail cut almost as good, but not near as fast as my plotter. I also use it for weeding my excess vinyl so it makes for a little bit faster weed time for me.

 

[Corys8646]

Xacto and a good cutting mat...feel like I get better results than with scissors

 

[People T-Shirts]

I love my Xacto blade. I can detail cut almost as good, but not near as fast as my plotter. I also use it for weeding my excess vinyl so it makes for a little bit faster weed time for me.

What is the name of your plotter? Thanks.

 

[skulltshirts]

I always use scissors as well. I was hoping to buy a machine to do this, but my opinion is they are much to expensive. Just cant beat a pair of wal mart scissors.