new SU dies
 

Good morning all,

Just curious about the new SU dies. What has been your experience with them? Do you need to shim them now?

Shirl

I didn’t need a shim. The new ones worked fine with the same sandwich as before.

Good to hear. Thanks for your reply!

Shirl

Ok, so I'm teaching logic this fall. So my "logic brain" is in overdrive.

My thought. Many companies make machines. Even more make dies. The machines are made so that any dies can be used in them, and the dies are made to be used in any machine. If they didn't the companies making "oddballs" would go out of business. Nobody wants to go out of business, so it's to their advantage to make dies and machines that are interchangeable with everyone else's.

Imagine if someone decided that they would make a DVD that was a bit thinner and hence lighter than the average. Maybe to save a bit of money. But a standard DVD player can't play those disks. So they have to make a special player too. But who is going to buy a second player for one brand of disks?


Standardization drives a lot of business.

As for the dies? There is probably more variation from one machine of a particular brand to another than there is between thickness of dies. One machine might require a thin shim when another doesn't.

I've been using them in my Bigshot and have not needed a shim, they seem to me to work the same and be the same quality as the old dies.

You can see how the Dino Days set looks in this video:
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New SU dies
 

Stampin Up sells a shim to use with the new dies. I've seen videos where domonstrators use the SU silicone craft mat as a shim. Others here are saying they have used the normal sandwich and had fine results.

Stampin' Up! always recommended using the metal shim with Thinlits dies. They were the more intricate dies and some sets had both Thinlits and Framelits in them.

The same directions were given in sets by Sizzix as well.

Many stamp artists use the shim with all intricate dies because they cut those itty-bitty holes out much better. :)