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I am not happy with my cut borders- is there a way to soften/round them?  They need fixing( they look jagged, uneven, unacceptable). I'm not sure if there is a tool? What am I doing wrong? Is this the way the are supposed to look? I am struggling with tooling. Thank you for any help.

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Try running a large, shallow, smooth beveler down each cut line where the border stamp will go. Don't go too deep. Then carefully run a modeling spoon down the cut line to knock off the sharp corner that's left. Then do the border stamp.

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you can get a plastic beveler tool which fits into the swivel knife instead of a blade. That might help

PS. I made my own versions

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Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..

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Thank you both. Frekd how did you make your own if I might ask?

 

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Easiest way I know is to use a back beveler.   It rounds off the "back" side of your cut.  Barry King sells them

Terry

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28 minutes ago, Alexis1234 said:

. . .. Frekd how did you make your own if I might ask?

Dead simple; I bought two bars of certain plastics. 1 is delrin and 1 is nylon. The delrin is the diameter to go into the knife. The nylon is smaller in diameter. It slips into a hole drilled in the delrin part. I used a modelling knife to pare away one end of the nylon bar to get the bevel shape I wanted. It can all be done on one bar but I had to be awkward. The cost of the two bars was about $3 and there's plenty to do other profiles

I first saw this thing on here but found a. they were/are very costly and b (were) very hard to get. So I made one.

If I find it amongst the mess on my desk I'll photo it and put it up.

Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..

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I cut my lines, then I bevel with a push beveler. after that I round over the edges with a back bevel blade in a swivel knife. My push beveler and my back bevel blade for the swivel knife are both from Barry King.

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Thank you! I'll have to put in an order with him

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Your geometric lay out looks great.  I find it much easier to carve something than lay out geometric patterns.  It's much easier to hide the mistakes with carving.  

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Barry King also sells a push beader like I used here.   You could use this tool between your wishbone border stamps.  I cut two parallel swivel knife cuts then push the beader down the cuts.  

Nice job,

Scootch

 

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