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CARL Mfg. USA, Inc. PRT-100 12" Personal Trimmer
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Reviews
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Date of last review
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3
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4681
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11-22-2006
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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33% of reviewers
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4.0
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supersize
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Description:
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New Personal Series Trimmer features more options than ever before. Patented cutting rail and premium carbide blades hold paper and paperboards firmly in place and cut more precisely. 14" ruler swings out to trim oversized sheets. Trims up to seven sheets. Choose from 11 different cutting patterns (sold separately).
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Manufacturer's Web Site:
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http://www.carl-products.com
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Author
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Skay
SJ Jazzie
Registered: January 2004
Location: NE Iowa
Posts: 88
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Review Date: 2-1-2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
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Pros:
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Size, rotary blade, see through holder, ruler
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Cons:
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none that I've found yet
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I bought this a couple days ago. Very nice trimmer. I'm new to trimmers, so this is the first I've tried. It works very well, and I like the Rotary blade, and like that you can change the blade for different edges. I've got the grey one with see through holder. They had the Blue one, but preferred the grey.
Sharonkay
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msntlm
Scrapjazz Contributor
Registered: May 2002
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 2501
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Review Date: 3-6-2004
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 3
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Pros:
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lightweight
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Cons:
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difficult to line up desired cut
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I have had nothing but problems with this cutter! Because the blade is to one side (yet not directly over the edge of the clear bar) I can never line up my cut correctly! You have to press down VERY hard to make a cut, and the cutting bar does not come up at all, so it's difficult to position your paper/photos underneath.
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KarinvdB
SJ Newbie
Registered: January 2006
Posts: 7
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Review Date: 11-22-2006
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 5
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Pros:
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Cuts right along the line of the bar, portable, 12" swing out ruler
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Cons:
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Mine was curved, so were the cuts so it's gathering dust now
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What use is a paper trimmer if it can't cut straight? I bought this at a craft show and loved that it cut right along the bar so you could see exactly where you were cutting. That is, until I tried to cut a smaller photo straight. I kept turning it 90 degrees and kept having to cut a sliver off, when I started to suspect it wasn't straight somehow. And it wasn't, when you look how the transparant bar lines up with the cutting mat you can clearly see it's in a different position in the middle than on the outer edges, the bar is curved. I tried some full length cuts along A4 paper and you could clearly see it wasn't straight by holding the paper up against the table surface. I ended up buying a bigger cutter from the same brand (The DC-212) which used the same blades and mats so I could at least still use the extra blades I bought. That one works fine except it cuts about 1-2mm away from the bar, making it harder to get the perfect cut and it's not as portable. The ruler also only goes up to 20 cm so anything beyond that you have to measure and mark before cutting.
I've looked at this cutter a few times in stores but I keep seeying this curve on all of them, so I don't dare to buy another one, I'm not convinced it was a fluke in my case.
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