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23rd March 2008, 4:57am
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#1 | | catpie
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| cutting plastic?
eh yeah, anyone any idea how to go about cutting shapes out of fairly thick plastic? I've been seeing loads of necklaces/ jewellery etc kicking about and fancied giving it a bash myself.
...if I could figure out how. The only way I can think of it's done is by heat. Surely not a soldering iron though. It's too clean an edge. I could be way off on my presumptions of how the hell they're made though.
here's some examples of what I mean .
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23rd March 2008, 5:00am
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#2 | | says Addy
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| Re: cutting plastic?
A bandsaw.
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23rd March 2008, 5:02am
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#3 | | catpie
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| Re: cutting plastic?
surely there's too much prescision/ small scale to be a bandsaw. The plastics deff. acrylic. Don't know if that helps at all
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23rd March 2008, 5:23am
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#4 | | The Persecutor
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L4z0rz!!!1 | |
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23rd March 2008, 5:34am
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#5 | | Goned
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| Re: cutting plastic?
At school we used a bandsaw/hacksaw on ascrylic and then sanded it down with fine sandpaper and got that same finish | |
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23rd March 2008, 5:43am
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#6 | | The Persecutor
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| Re: cutting plastic?
Charlicat does it using nowt but her cutting wit and incisive remarks.
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23rd March 2008, 6:51am
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#7 | | =^.^=
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Enough about my sexual prowess.
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23rd March 2008, 8:32am
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#8 | | Stop pissing me off...
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cessnock
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| Re: cutting plastic?
only experience I have was like someone above said, school, bandsaw then sanding. You can be remarkably precise with a bandsaw, if you value your fingers. | |
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23rd March 2008, 9:14am
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#9 | | ~gone cackling~
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lancaster
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| Re: cutting plastic?
Deffo a bandsaw, we used em at school, coping saws work also, but we also had a cathedral sized piece of machinery to sand off the saw marks so thats gonna be harder to source. | |
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23rd March 2008, 9:48am
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#10 | | on a shoe driven mission
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: over a rainbow
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| Re: cutting plastic?
what they all said^^
just watch the plastic aint too brittle though
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23rd March 2008, 9:56am
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#11 | | one part of the perpetual
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: 57 43 46 55
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| Re: cutting plastic?
Lately i've been cutting sheets of acrylic on a CO2 laser CNC machine...(i'd also guess this is how the proper ones are cut)
...not so many of these machines kicking about, that's the only thing.
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23rd March 2008, 10:06am
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#12 | | Better not to err
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Glesgae
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| Re: cutting plastic?
Hot wire cutters/polystyrene cutters. You can get them dead cheap on the internet. | |
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23rd March 2008, 10:13am
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#13 | | one part of the perpetual
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Hot wires are really only meant to cut EPS foam. You'll have a hell of a hard time trying to get through acrylic (that's not of negligible thickness i.e. paper thin) with one and if you do, i'd imagine the cut wouldn't be the cleanest. Also...if you do try and cut acrlyic with a hot wire, wear a respirator as the fumes are pretty nasty. | |
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23rd March 2008, 10:30am
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#14 | | Better not to err
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Glesgae
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Unless you're cutting ninebars, in which case go nuts. | |
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23rd March 2008, 10:38am
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#15 | | Fat Cow
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| Re: cutting plastic?
Candy there looks like the love child of Scarlet Johansson & Kenny le goth. I had a friend who made her own jewellery and she used a coping saw (whatever that is). | |
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