How to Fix Cut Errors on Mattes for Picture Framing

Video Transcript

"Such as this. An exacto knife. What happened there is I didn't cut it quite far enough. The overlap. So we'll go in with the exacto knife on a beveled angle. There we go. And I've got it. This is fallen away now. We're going to flip it over and see how we did. Now we also have a tool here to alleviate this problem. What it is is a little sandpaper block. And you have different layers of sandpaper. And if you'll look in this corner you'll see there's a little bit of a snap when I cut with the exacto knife. So you'll want to go real lightly in the corner to alleviate that. Got the one side. There we go. Probably better of to go away from the core. Because if you'll see here, if you go towards it you're going to leave a little bit of blue from the matte board on the core itself. So we go like that. Once it's framed you'll never see that. The snag has been alleviated with the sand paper."