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Originally Posted by artdutra04
We thought the same thing until we bought a self-healing cutting board and one of those circular pizza-cutter-type scissors.
After that it took seconds to cut each one out.
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In theory, that's a better way.
But I was using my old cutting mat, which was an inch shorter than the length of the fabric strips, and trying to manage 10 yards of bright yellow 58-inch wide Spandex on a 34-inch wide card table. My little old Olfa cutter kept skipping, even after I bought new blades. So I had to touch up each cut with scissors. I considered buying a really large mat, but I didn't want to spend that much money on what I thought would be a two-day job.
In the other cutting area at our shop, people were marking the fabric with whatever was handy, and struggling to cut it with really bad scissors. The only pencil sharpener in the shop was the power sander... You get the picture.
We were "only" making some 80 balls, with another team. (We did the yellow and navy Spandex, they did the Lexan.) I had many thoughts about what the factory in China might have used to make the job more efficient.
David, I wish you well in your ball-making endeavor.