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There is a danger of undercutting the foam when you cut in a circle. It is much easier to cut the foam and rubber correctly when you cut in straight lines. This is just my own personal observation from cutting so many stamps.
As long as you are careful and pay attention to what you are doing it works fine to cut in a curve. I tilt my scissors so that I leave MORE foam rather than undercutting.
As long as you are careful and pay attention to what you are doing it works fine to cut in a curve. I tilt my scissors so that I leave MORE foam rather than undercutting.
Not using straight cuts causes a phenomenon called "Undercutting the rubber." Undercutting is when the cushion underneath is smaller than the rubber image part. Undercutting causes two problems:
1. You lose even pressure so when you stamp your image, it may have shallow spots around the edges. You can't press the edges of the image down because there isn't any cushion there. This shows up on chunky stamps mostly.
2. You may get a ghost image where not only the stamp image appears but the rim around the outside where you cut will appear also. The stamp tends to curl out because it's not attached to the block around the edges.
So, if you can use straight lines, you are better off. KWIM?
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As long as you are careful and pay attention to what you are doing it works fine to cut in a curve. I tilt my scissors so that I leave MORE foam rather than undercutting.
I just realized that a few of my stamps are undercut, I guess I just didn't notice I was cutting them like that, so I have been trying to do this too.
i under cut my carrot nose for cold play and he fell off in a workshop LoL... I hot glued it back on for now, until i can fix it
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I haven't really had a problem with undercutting, but I could see how it would be a pain in the butt! However, I don't use the straight cuts either! I think that way makes it easier to get part of the outside of the stamped inked, and can ruin a great project!
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A good customer and coworker just got her hostess set (springtime stems) and the long stem...you know the skinny long stem? Well, she curved her scissors and left about a 1/16" foam under the rubber :eek:
She comes in one day and tells me her stem doesn't stamp well.... I immediately knew she had under cut... she brought it in to me and I luckily keep some of my spare leftover rubber laying around... I had to peel the foam off her rubber, then take a rectangle of spare rubber and remove that from the foam... still very sticky... and plopped the stem on to new foam. Pressed real hard and recut. I tested it and it worked, but what a hassle!!
Cut in straight cuts.... it'll save you the pain.
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Originally Posted by Theresa Romani
As long as you are careful and pay attention to what you are doing it works fine to cut in a curve. I tilt my scissors so that I leave MORE foam rather than undercutting.
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Originally Posted by imataloss
me too.
Me three! But, I am just a rule breaker in general...so never mind.
why only straight edges when cutting out stamps?
only unmounted stamps here
