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Old 06-08-2007, 05:16 PM
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Re: Cutting out doors: Your techniques for keeping your blade straight?

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Originally Posted by Layla's Keeper
Another solution - albeit a slightly expensive tool to some - is a jeweler's saw.
Never tried one out on plastic, but used to use one quite often for silverwork ages ago & although very versatile in the shapes it can cut, imho a very sharp scalpel blade would give a finer cut, especially as it's slicing not sawing.

I used the scalpel method that I described earlier to cut all the doors & bonnet (there's no bootlid) on a Gunze AH Sprite body. Just dug it out from amongst all the detrius on my work desk, and the door gaps are very tight,to the extent that I think I'll need to sand the edges more to allow for the thickness of the paint!
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