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Coroplast Cutters

Cavy Cuckoo

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The other day I came across a comment in a picture gallery, it was about coroplast cutters. Someone said they used a utility knife. I use two blades to cut my coroplast, my mom bought it from a local sign shop.

The first blade/cutter I use is to cut with the grain of the coroplast. It is called a Plast-Kut, and you might be able to find it or something similar in a sign shop (Mine is a bit scratched)--

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To cut half of the coroplast (To make a fold) insert one blade in between the two sides as shown and drag it across --

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(It will only cut the top half.)

To cut a peice off completely, insert both blades --

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When I cut agaisnt the grain I use a regular blade. To cut half, just press lightly as you score it, to cut it completely off press harder.

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This might have been a little confusing, and the pictures were bad quality because I used my older camera. Hope this helped!
 
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fourbwabbys

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I used the cutter in the last picture on my coroplast. It worked good.
 

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I just use what we call in england a stanley knife (last picture) to cut the coroplast/correx/corrogated plastic what every you want to call it i think they are known around the world as either of these three.
 

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We used the knife in the last picture(stanley knife) to cut & score ours. We just call it a box cutter. It was quite easily done.
 

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I too used just a standard utility knife but I sure would like to find that first one! I don't have much of a problem cutting a straight line across the grain, but going with the grain never seems to be straight and somehow manages be all wonky.

I will have to look around for one.
 

Cavy Cuckoo

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I found one of the Plast-Kut products on eBay, if anyone is interested: (broken link removed)
 

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The PlastiKut cutters are great if you are building lots of cages. Otherwise, they are not worth the price.

I own one because I cut hundreds of sheets of coroplast for people.
 
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