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  • How to Make a Carbide Burr

    Carbide burrs are a type of rotary file that are fitted to a drill. They are used to deburr metal tools and surfaces. Tungsten carbide is an extremely hard metal that can operate under high heat without losing its cutting edge. The friction of drilling creates a great deal of heat. Carbide burrs give metals a highly smooth finish and can be used to finish such precision work as the cylinders in automotive engines. Carbide burrs are usually around 1/2-inch long and come in a multitude of shapes, including round, oval and treelike, depending on the application for which they…

  • How Can I Make Perfect Circles With a Plasma Cutter?

    Cutting straight lines and other shapes with a plasma cutter is a task that requires skill, concentration and precision; cutting a perfect circle with a plasma cutter without help is nearly impossible, even for the most skilled metalworker. A plasma-cutter compass makes it much easier to create perfect circles of varying sizes. The setup and execution of this task can be accomplished quickly, in most cases.

  • Fiskars Circle Cutter Instructions

    Fiskars makes a circle cutter that is ideal for cutting out perfectly shaped circles on any part of a page. Circles can range from one inch to eight inches. A clear base on this cutter ensures you are aligning the cutter in the correct spot and a gripper placed on the foot of the cutter keeps it from moving out of place while you are cutting. A Fiskars circle cutter is a great tool for those who enjoy crafting and scrapbooking.

  • Circle Cutter Crafts

    Cutting a perfect circle with scissors is challenging. You may have tried tracing the shape of a circular object onto a piece of paper and then cutting it out. Even by cutting slowly and following your neatly drawn line, the circles are rarely perfect. By using a special tool called a circle cutter, you can cut perfect paper or fabric circles for crafts. Circle cutters are very efficient and speed up the task of cutting out multiple circles.

  • How to Make a Circle Cutter

    A circle cutter is a type of jig or assembly used to guide a cutting device in a circle so that a perfect circle shape can be cut. Circle cutting jigs can be purchased for many types of cutting devices such as mat board cutters for framing photos inside circles, or plastic rotary cutters used for cutting fabric circles. These cutters are more specialized or less common than the circle cutter jig used for cutting wood. Circular pieces of wood are used for all kinds of purposes, making the wood circle cutter a common tool accessory in most wood shops.…

  • DIY Circle Cutter

    Many crafts and projects require cutting accurate circles out of paper, cardboard, foam, or other materials. While you can do this freehand to a certain tolerance, you will get a much more accurate circle by using a simple-to-build jig that directs your blade in a near perfect circle. A similar technique can be modified to work with different tools, including jigsaws and other power tools.

  • How to Adjust a Circle Cutter

    Circle cutters can be used to make circular shapes in many different materials, from photographs to drywall. While they are available in a variety of styles, they all operate on the same principle as the drafting compass. Instead of having a pencil on one end, the circle cutter has a sharp blade, which cuts the paper.

  • How to Use Kemper Circle Cutters

    Kemper pattern cutters are small metal cutters that closely resemble cookie cutters, but are smaller. Each cutter has a spring loaded handle on top that makes ejecting the clay shapes easy. They are used to cut out shapes from clay, thus creating intricate designs or adornments for the finished clay product. Kemper manufactures the pattern cutter in a variety of shapes, including the circle cutters which cut different sized circles in the clay.

  • How to Pack for a Crop Weekend

    When you have the luxury of getting away for some quality, hard-core scrapbooking, you do not want to waste your time looking for supplies and photos. If you pack only the necessities, you will have less to haul into the venue and you will have plenty of time to create beautiful and unique scrapbook pages. And isn't that the point? Read on to learn how to plant for a crop weekend.

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