I have to send a lot of fragile prints in the mail and to protect them I cut two A4 size cardboard inserts from fruit boxes to reinforce the envelope.
These fruit boxes have to transport food, and so they are manufactured as the last word in cardboard structural integrity. So they are also ideal to transport my own fragile items.
Here is one of the boxes I cut from (getting two A4's per box) and next to it is the resulting neat little pile of inserts to include in my envelopes.
However, the boxes' very structural integrity makes them quite tough to cut through.
I bought a cutting tool over three years ago and it has performed reasonably well since then, although the jaws would still consistently become clogged with cardboard and its cutting ability regularly highly reduced. You can see in the photo the random jagged cuts that results when this happens as, in frustration, I use main force to drive the tool through it anyway. Now I know this is the kind of tool abuse that all of you recoil from, :oo: but hey! my reasoning is that I'm one in charge here, not it, and so I'll decide if it is going to cut - not it. :q
Here is the cutting tool:
The problem of course is that it is just not the right tool for the job. Even so, it has still endured more than three years of my abuse before justice (and material fatigue) finally reared its ugly head. The plastic that locks the lower jaw in place split, so that its jaws ended up up gaping like a boa trying to swallow an antelope:
I really need a proper cutting tool more dedicated to the job in hand. I have to do a lot of these boxes and cutting them manually with a stanley knife is murder as they are very meritoriously strongly made cardboard. I don't want to re-live the deficiencies of the last few years either by getting another of the former cutting tool.
Here is my drawing of what I'd really like to find:
I can imagine this whirling blade slicing though the boxes with just one throw of the wrist, with almost as little resistance as (my ideal) a hand held laser.:hahaha: So does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to what is out there that may fit my hopeful design or be adaptable to it?
Thank you. :U
These fruit boxes have to transport food, and so they are manufactured as the last word in cardboard structural integrity. So they are also ideal to transport my own fragile items.
Here is one of the boxes I cut from (getting two A4's per box) and next to it is the resulting neat little pile of inserts to include in my envelopes.
However, the boxes' very structural integrity makes them quite tough to cut through.
I bought a cutting tool over three years ago and it has performed reasonably well since then, although the jaws would still consistently become clogged with cardboard and its cutting ability regularly highly reduced. You can see in the photo the random jagged cuts that results when this happens as, in frustration, I use main force to drive the tool through it anyway. Now I know this is the kind of tool abuse that all of you recoil from, :oo: but hey! my reasoning is that I'm one in charge here, not it, and so I'll decide if it is going to cut - not it. :q
Here is the cutting tool:
The problem of course is that it is just not the right tool for the job. Even so, it has still endured more than three years of my abuse before justice (and material fatigue) finally reared its ugly head. The plastic that locks the lower jaw in place split, so that its jaws ended up up gaping like a boa trying to swallow an antelope:
I really need a proper cutting tool more dedicated to the job in hand. I have to do a lot of these boxes and cutting them manually with a stanley knife is murder as they are very meritoriously strongly made cardboard. I don't want to re-live the deficiencies of the last few years either by getting another of the former cutting tool.
Here is my drawing of what I'd really like to find:
I can imagine this whirling blade slicing though the boxes with just one throw of the wrist, with almost as little resistance as (my ideal) a hand held laser.:hahaha: So does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to what is out there that may fit my hopeful design or be adaptable to it?
Thank you. :U
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