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General Philatelic/Supplies, Literature & Software : GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

 

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22 Oct 2011
03:35:54pm
INFORMED STAMPORAMA MEMBERS:

IS THERE A GUILLOTINE AVAILABLE ON THE COMMERCIAL MARKET THAT REPRESENTS GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY?

OVER THE LAST HALF-CENTURY, I'VE BOUGHT COUNTLESS CUTTERS, OF VARIOUS BRANDS, AND ALL HAVE SUFFERED SHORT, TRAGIC LIVES DESPITE THE "KID GLOVES" WITH WHICH I HAVE TREATED THEM.

MY LATEST VICTIM, ANOTHER REGRETTABLE "LIGHTHOUSE" PURCHASE, HAS GONE THE WAY OF ALL PLASTIC DESPITE BEING REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY. I AM REDUCED TO USING A NO-NAME, MADE IN TAIWAN, TINY (75cm BLADE) CUTTER THAT HAS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF METRAGE ("MILEAGE" FOR AMERICAN READERS) UNDER ITS BELT, BUT CAN'T HANDLE THE LARGER STAMP MOUNTS, AND APPEARS TO BE GOING THE WAY OF ALL FLESH.

I SEEM TO BE TOO OLD, SHAKEY AND DANGEROUS FOR CUTTING STAMP MOUNTS WITH SCISSORS OR BOX CUTTER. WHO CAN BAIL ME OUT HERE?

JOHN DERRY (DRYER)


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22 Oct 2011
04:54:44pm
re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

Howdy John,

I've never used a cutter specifically for stamp mounts, but what I HAVE been using is a scrapbooking cutter for about 3 years now and it has been working great.

I insert the stamp in the mount strip, then place the strip into the cutter, line it up where I want it, then ZIP! Works like a charm. AND, you can buy new refill cutter blades when yours gets dull, quite cheaply.
I don't know what brands you have there, but mine is a Fiskars.

Just an FYI for you...!



Randy

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Mike

22 Oct 2011
06:51:11pm
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John,
I couldn't cut a straight line, if my life depended on it, since I also am a DOM, (Dirty Old Man, to you youngsters). I have had great luck with the SHOWGARD cutter and have been using one for many years. I have even bought a second one a couple of years ago, at our local stamp club auction, to keep in reserve, just in case this one fails to do the job. I also have a couple of those scrapbooking cutters that Randy mentioned, but use that type only for photos that need to be trimmed.

This problem is like all the others that come up, in the fact that not everyone can possibly like the same type of equipment or system for their stamp collecting activities.

Good luck in your search for the perfect system.

Mike

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22 Oct 2011
08:34:27pm
re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

When I was in the seventh grade, after moving to a new area I wound up in an "Art Class" for about three months til my parents could get me into a better school. But the teacher did teach us how to cut a straight line across a page.
Th secret is, assuming you start at the right place, to keep the part that you already cut flush alongside the upper blade of the sissors so that the next cut segment will be a straight continuation of the first cut.
Once you get the mechanics of it figured out it becomes pathetically easy.
Of course, the idea does nothing to compensate for old age, shakey hands or arthritic fingers.

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23 Oct 2011
07:45:46am
re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

My advice is to get someone else to do it for you. Preferably young female and good looking.

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Tim.

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23 Oct 2011
10:37:59am
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I used a film cutter (designed for both negatives and prints) for many years until I finally bought a Showgard cutter about 7 years ago. Mind you, a good film cutter is not inexpensive. I haven't had any issues with the Showgard cutter, even though it's mainly plastic... I'd guess I've gut more than 10,000 mounts on it.

~Peter

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24 Oct 2011
01:06:53pm
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STAMPORAMA MEMBERS:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS REGARDING GUILLOTINES. MY WIFE ROARED WITH LAUGHTER WHEN SHE SAW MR JENSEN'S TERM "PATHETICALLY EASY" AND THE WORD "SCISSORS" IN A SENTENCE DIRECTED AT ME. I WOULD HAVE RETORTED WITH AN ANACOLUTHON BUT SHE HAD A KITCHEN KNIFE IN HER HAND.
THANK YOU AGAIN FELLOW MEMBERS FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS.

JOHN DERRY

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18 Feb 2012
03:19:32pm
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My trusty Showgard cutter has served me well. I bought it over 30 years ago. It does not work on the larger sheets recently issued. I found a sliding paper cutter brand name Westcott in Wal Mart that does very well.

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oliver_black

06 Mar 2012
10:37:32pm
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Well, Mr. Derry, I admit it. Your "anacoluthon" sent me to my old Webster's Seventh Collegiate Dictionary, and that doesn't happen too often these days. When I read the first definition, I knew I was in deep doo-doo. It said, "syntactical inconsistency," a phrase I hadn't heard since one of my High School English teachers, Mr. Horace T. Boileau, shook his boney finger at me in a display of righteous indignation at something I said in response to one of his questions. Thanks for the memories.

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The past is a foreign country, they do things different there.
22 Oct 2011
03:35:54pm

INFORMED STAMPORAMA MEMBERS:

IS THERE A GUILLOTINE AVAILABLE ON THE COMMERCIAL MARKET THAT REPRESENTS GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY?

OVER THE LAST HALF-CENTURY, I'VE BOUGHT COUNTLESS CUTTERS, OF VARIOUS BRANDS, AND ALL HAVE SUFFERED SHORT, TRAGIC LIVES DESPITE THE "KID GLOVES" WITH WHICH I HAVE TREATED THEM.

MY LATEST VICTIM, ANOTHER REGRETTABLE "LIGHTHOUSE" PURCHASE, HAS GONE THE WAY OF ALL PLASTIC DESPITE BEING REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY. I AM REDUCED TO USING A NO-NAME, MADE IN TAIWAN, TINY (75cm BLADE) CUTTER THAT HAS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF METRAGE ("MILEAGE" FOR AMERICAN READERS) UNDER ITS BELT, BUT CAN'T HANDLE THE LARGER STAMP MOUNTS, AND APPEARS TO BE GOING THE WAY OF ALL FLESH.

I SEEM TO BE TOO OLD, SHAKEY AND DANGEROUS FOR CUTTING STAMP MOUNTS WITH SCISSORS OR BOX CUTTER. WHO CAN BAIL ME OUT HERE?

JOHN DERRY (DRYER)


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22 Oct 2011
04:54:44pm

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

Howdy John,

I've never used a cutter specifically for stamp mounts, but what I HAVE been using is a scrapbooking cutter for about 3 years now and it has been working great.

I insert the stamp in the mount strip, then place the strip into the cutter, line it up where I want it, then ZIP! Works like a charm. AND, you can buy new refill cutter blades when yours gets dull, quite cheaply.
I don't know what brands you have there, but mine is a Fiskars.

Just an FYI for you...!



Randy

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Mike
22 Oct 2011
06:51:11pm

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

John,
I couldn't cut a straight line, if my life depended on it, since I also am a DOM, (Dirty Old Man, to you youngsters). I have had great luck with the SHOWGARD cutter and have been using one for many years. I have even bought a second one a couple of years ago, at our local stamp club auction, to keep in reserve, just in case this one fails to do the job. I also have a couple of those scrapbooking cutters that Randy mentioned, but use that type only for photos that need to be trimmed.

This problem is like all the others that come up, in the fact that not everyone can possibly like the same type of equipment or system for their stamp collecting activities.

Good luck in your search for the perfect system.

Mike

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"It's been 7 years now, since I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet..."

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
22 Oct 2011
08:34:27pm

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

When I was in the seventh grade, after moving to a new area I wound up in an "Art Class" for about three months til my parents could get me into a better school. But the teacher did teach us how to cut a straight line across a page.
Th secret is, assuming you start at the right place, to keep the part that you already cut flush alongside the upper blade of the sissors so that the next cut segment will be a straight continuation of the first cut.
Once you get the mechanics of it figured out it becomes pathetically easy.
Of course, the idea does nothing to compensate for old age, shakey hands or arthritic fingers.

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23 Oct 2011
07:45:46am

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

My advice is to get someone else to do it for you. Preferably young female and good looking.

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Ya never know what else they might help you out with.

Tim.

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ScanStamps

23 Oct 2011
10:37:59am

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

I used a film cutter (designed for both negatives and prints) for many years until I finally bought a Showgard cutter about 7 years ago. Mind you, a good film cutter is not inexpensive. I haven't had any issues with the Showgard cutter, even though it's mainly plastic... I'd guess I've gut more than 10,000 mounts on it.

~Peter

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24 Oct 2011
01:06:53pm

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

STAMPORAMA MEMBERS:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS REGARDING GUILLOTINES. MY WIFE ROARED WITH LAUGHTER WHEN SHE SAW MR JENSEN'S TERM "PATHETICALLY EASY" AND THE WORD "SCISSORS" IN A SENTENCE DIRECTED AT ME. I WOULD HAVE RETORTED WITH AN ANACOLUTHON BUT SHE HAD A KITCHEN KNIFE IN HER HAND.
THANK YOU AGAIN FELLOW MEMBERS FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS.

JOHN DERRY

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Les

18 Feb 2012
03:19:32pm

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

My trusty Showgard cutter has served me well. I bought it over 30 years ago. It does not work on the larger sheets recently issued. I found a sliding paper cutter brand name Westcott in Wal Mart that does very well.

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oliver_black

06 Mar 2012
10:37:32pm

re: GUILLOTINE (STAMP-MOUNT CUTTER)

Well, Mr. Derry, I admit it. Your "anacoluthon" sent me to my old Webster's Seventh Collegiate Dictionary, and that doesn't happen too often these days. When I read the first definition, I knew I was in deep doo-doo. It said, "syntactical inconsistency," a phrase I hadn't heard since one of my High School English teachers, Mr. Horace T. Boileau, shook his boney finger at me in a display of righteous indignation at something I said in response to one of his questions. Thanks for the memories.

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