Nick Gravestock wrote: >Aha! >Your problem is your cutting method. >A chisel point is required, not a "slicing cut" with a blade. >Exacto do a chisel point blade that would do for parchment/paper, and >probably cardboard. >Small carving chisels thinned down without "blueing" the steel are best. >These come in flats and various radiuses of curve to make the curved >roses. >I don't think you will succeed in any material with a slicing cut. >Nick > > > Thanks for your help. So I should be using a sort of chisel technique on parchment or cardboard?! Well, it was obvious that I was never going to succeed with the slicing cut of the scalpel.
I had a quick google for Exacto chisel point blades - and didn't really find anything. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
