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Color me scissor curious.
I cut most fabrics with scissors. I have used razor blades against straight edges, which works better with some fabrics than others. My “cutting table” is most often the covered top of a pool table, so if I’m using a razor blade a wood top has to go over that surface. Scissors are just quicker and easier when I’m making a one or two simple cuts.
I have scissors marked and reserved for glass and kevlar and peel ply, and use them for nothing else. Decent quality Fiskars scissors, but all are getting dull and less than satisfactory.
I went investigatory scissor shopping, and now I’m more lost than ever. There are now scissors with adjustable tension for thicker and thinner materials, Titanium blade scissors, scissors with anti-adhesive resistance for cutting sticky-backed tape, 3X and 6X “durability” scissors, all in the sub-$10 (some sub $5) range.
? #1 - What scissors do y’all use to cut fabric (glass, kevlar, peel ply etc)?
? #2 - Is there a decently cost-effective scissor sharpening tool? Even if they still sucked for cutting FRP materials I’d relegate them to general shop use, cutting paper and adhesive-backed tapes.
Yes, I clean the adhesive residue off general shop use relegated tape scissors; after I have gummed up the works on several pair and can’t find scissors that work worth a dang. Cutting good quality duct tape gums up a pair of scissors fast. So does cutting heat sealable fabric.
And, observationally, cutting papergoods seems to dull scissors really fast. The thick brown wrapping paper I often use is a scissor killer.
? #3 – Is there some other (simple) FRP cutting device that isn’t stupid expensive for occasional fiberglass and etc fabric cutting?
I cut most fabrics with scissors. I have used razor blades against straight edges, which works better with some fabrics than others. My “cutting table” is most often the covered top of a pool table, so if I’m using a razor blade a wood top has to go over that surface. Scissors are just quicker and easier when I’m making a one or two simple cuts.
I have scissors marked and reserved for glass and kevlar and peel ply, and use them for nothing else. Decent quality Fiskars scissors, but all are getting dull and less than satisfactory.
I went investigatory scissor shopping, and now I’m more lost than ever. There are now scissors with adjustable tension for thicker and thinner materials, Titanium blade scissors, scissors with anti-adhesive resistance for cutting sticky-backed tape, 3X and 6X “durability” scissors, all in the sub-$10 (some sub $5) range.
? #1 - What scissors do y’all use to cut fabric (glass, kevlar, peel ply etc)?
? #2 - Is there a decently cost-effective scissor sharpening tool? Even if they still sucked for cutting FRP materials I’d relegate them to general shop use, cutting paper and adhesive-backed tapes.
Yes, I clean the adhesive residue off general shop use relegated tape scissors; after I have gummed up the works on several pair and can’t find scissors that work worth a dang. Cutting good quality duct tape gums up a pair of scissors fast. So does cutting heat sealable fabric.
And, observationally, cutting papergoods seems to dull scissors really fast. The thick brown wrapping paper I often use is a scissor killer.
? #3 – Is there some other (simple) FRP cutting device that isn’t stupid expensive for occasional fiberglass and etc fabric cutting?