CARL Heavy Duty Rotary Paper Trimmer 18inch - 12238

I invested in this to perfect the colouring book I'd made for my littlest sister 🐾 It certainly did what it said on the tin! It sliced through 10 sheets of thin card plus 2 sheets of 300gsm gloss card with no issue at all. It takes a few slices up and down but it's not physically difficult whatsoever and it made quick work of this book, plus a couple other books I'd made with the same thickness! I popped the book in as is, which is 4mm thick when closed. I'm pretty confident it could handle thicker stock, too! The magnetic ruler is pretty awesome and the whole guillotine didn't slide about on my smooth wood table. The way you clamp the blade ruler down before use holds your work strongly in place, but I'd recommend holding it down yourself too to ensure maximum precision. I've only used it 3 or 4 times thus far so I can't comment on durability over years, but I should hope for the price and based on how sturdy it seems right now that it's gonna provide years of smooth.like.butter 😂

Clamps 30+ pages at a time and cuts through all with a few swipes. The fluorescent ruler makes it easier to line up the cut

Cuts easily and accurately through chipboard and several layers of other thickness of paper/card. Wanted it to cut mainly chipboard and I can’t fault it as it works so well.

Just what I needed for cartonnage - see picture - thick greyboard cut easily - cant think how I managed without it

I have the 18”. I use it to cut 2mm mdf and 2.5mm greyboard for crafting. It cuts the greyboard with hardly a thought but the mdf (chipboard, artists board, call it what you will) takes a lot more effort anything from 15/20 passes. However it cuts accurately and pretty cleanly and, importantly, squarely. I tend to get bevelled edges with a Stanley knife and safety ruler despite my best efforts. It takes up a lot of desk space in use, but it’s not too heavy so easily stacked vertically in a shelf or on the floor against a wall (where mine lives) to free up space. I’m very happy with it. Updated - So a couple of weeks later. A new project required cutting 2mm mdf, which had to be accurate to the mm (previous cuts had been less critical so I hadn't picked up on the accuracy) and found that it's actually 1mm short. I measured and double checked everything, and liaised with others who use this cutter, and in the end I discovered its the magnetic guide itself. 2 things. 1. It has play where it sits on the top and bottom bars, so I ended up masking taping the area that clips onto the bars, and it now fits snugly. 2. But the main thing is that the guide isn't square. It sits perfectly on the cutter bed, but then slopes very slightly outwards toward to top, so that the thicker the material or pile of paper, the more margin there is for error. I have included 2 photos taken against a right angle ruler which I hope shows the problem, one with the guide resting normally on the ruler and the other on its side. Either way it shows a gap that wouldn't be there if it were square. Now that I know that, I use the right angle ruler to measure and butt the board against, and use the guide to hold the ruler steady. It now cuts accurately no matter the thickness. Down to 4 stars because I (and others before me it seems) shouldn't have had to do the quality control research for the manufacturer, far less find a workaround. I was going to return it, but now that I know the problem I'll keep it, since otherwise it's a good cutter.

I didn't realize how long the cutter is. It cutter measures 22" long by 13.5" wide. My portable collapsible table works for it. The base is very sturdy. I have arthritic fingers and I find it's easy to use. Very little pressure on my joints to slide the cutter bar across. I like that a drop down lever holds down the paper tight. The paper doesn't move. The magnet is a bonus. What it doesn't explain in the description. It doesn't cut 6 pieces of paper all at once. What you need to do to cut 6 pieces is; Secure desired amount of paper under the bar. The cutter will cut only the top sheet of paper. Remove that first paper and slide cutter bar across the second piece of paper, so on and so forth. It's very quick and each piece is cut perfectly.

Excellent massicot… malheureusement, il est plus petit en profondeur que son prédécesseur et m’empêche de couper des pages 30x30cm malgré que ce soit un 15 pouces. Il fait bien 15 pouces en longueur mais pas en profondeur vu qu’il s’arrête à 29,5 cm.

Muy práctica, corta diversos materiales, por ejemplo la tela como si se tratara de papel.

Easy to use. Cuts well - even the thicker board. Well designed paper holder. Would have been good to have the 13" paper guide length included on the markings rather than stopping at 11-12" as the 13"x19" paper sizes are well used by photographers and art printers. But well done to the designers of this product and their quality control. Only used it for a few weeks but exceeds my expectations as a fine art photographer wishing to reduce 24" roll paper down to 13x19" and other sizes for printing. The other amazing thing you could do.... include a fold-out extended measuring guide on the left side to help measure longer paper pieces so we don't have to measure and mark separately before cutting longer sheets.

Posseggo 3 taglierine, di cui una ghigliottina professionale, una dalhe a lama scorrevole e una più piccola sempre di marca nota che uso quasi tutti i giorni, ma che ahimè non taglia più a dovere. Quindi volevo sostituirla. Dopo varie ricerche durate giorni, mi sono imbattuta in questa. Letto e riletto tutte le recensioni oltre ai vari video, non ho esitato a prenderla. Sono rimasta a dir poco stupefatta quando mi é arrivata. Taglio preciso e pulito oltre al fatto che taglia proprio a filo del righello (quindi sai di preciso dove sta tagliando). E per me questa era la cosa più fondamentale di tutti, visto che con molte taglierine ( anche marche note) si va ad occhio. La misura è perfetta, é leggera e resistente. Ho provato a tagliare cartone di 2,5 mm e 35/40 fogli da 80g, ha tagliato senza sforzo e con taglio impeccabile. Un altra cosa che mi é piaciuta, è il cambio di lama, in dotazione esce anche quella per il tratteggio, che dire …….. fantastica anche quella. Sono contentissima del mio acquisto e la consiglio vivamente. Vince alla gran lunga su molte taglierine in commercio. Soddisfattissima!!!!! Peccato non averla comprato prima.