Ever have difficulty cutting through certain materials while using your thin-rule dies like Framelits or Thinlits? Well, Sizzix has come up with a new metal base plate that allows you to cut more precisely and cleanly!
Take a look:
And don’t those new deco sheets look fun as well??
The Precision Base Plate will be available in March, and we are hoping to have one at CTD to give a full review then.
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HA!! I felt the same!!! cut onto metal and ruin my dies – guess not 🙂
And tell me please is there something i don’t understand about physics???? Like won’t cutting against metal shorten the life of our thin rule dies? They seem to be good for only about 30-40 cuts as is.
Ill stick with Karen Burniston’s method that uses a layer of dryer sheets. Im sure it is more cost effective too
Its another way to get our $$ like those magnetic platforms that seem to go haywire after a moderate amount of use. I wish i could get my $40 back. What a scam.
LOVE it!! The precision base plate is definitely on my must have list!
Looks cool, but I think I’ll wait for your review!
Phyllis- the physics of thin rule dies is that it’s PRESSURE- not blade sharpness- that cuts materials cleanly. For that, you have two coefficients:pressure from the rollers and resistance of the base plate. So if you are using a steel base plate you have more resistance than using an acrylic one, and hence better efficacy of the pressure that the rollers are applying. I like the dryer sheet trick, but really it’s only good for helping the paper release from the thin dies. And for my money, I’ll use deli paper (wax paper) because it’s even cheaper than dryer sheets. Hope this clears it up for you. Best, Jenny
Great tip on the metal plate. I’ve never used this type of die as my concern is how to adhere them without blobs of glue all over the place. And I wonder how easy it is to remove the backing from the deco sheets after it’s been die cut with the words. He seemed to have problems removing the backing from an uncut sheet.
I just now saw a product at Frantic Stampers’ site called “Stick It”, an adhesive sheet for dies. Have you ever used it? If so, is it worth purchasing? Thanks
It sounds good….I’m really not feeling sure that it won’t wreck my dies? I’m definitely looking forward to your review.
If I caught this right (since I couldn’t see it happen), based on what he was saying, he took the adhesive backed deco sheet and adhered it to cardstock before he cut it to make it easier to handle. What I want to know is how he then adheres it to whatever he’s attaching it.
Why not just use Post-It tape to hold down your dies or plain old repositionable Scotch Tape? Why must everything be made so complicated?
Masks, I have heard so many people complain about the Post It notes not being long enough or whatever and all the while you can buy slightly adhesive masking sheets from Inkadinkado and save a lot of money. I save my masks and put them back onto the backing sheet. Even more money saved.
I have had my magnetic platform for over a year and it gets used daily. Mine hasn’t let me down yet. When is it supposed to go “haywire”?
I haven’t used the precision base plate yet, but I have used the metal shim from Elizabeth Craft Designs to cut through her Shimmer Sheets, not one of my thin dies have been damaged by that metal shim. I doubt that the precision plate will damage them either. Dies are just not that sharp. Have you ever cut yourself on a paper die? They do not “cut” through paper as much as they are pushed through the paper by the metal rollers, they push so hard that they score the cutting pads and sometime they push cardstock fibers into those score marks. If the dies were sharp, it would cut the cardstock cleanly and not leave behind paper fibers.
But I will leave it up to the experts here at CTD for the final say.