NT Professional Mat Cutter, 45 Degree Bevel Mat Board Cutter, 1 Cutter (MAT-45P), Aluminum Die-Cast Grip, Red/Grey

I haven't learned how to use it. Not enough instruction

This Matt cutter works great but you will also need some other tools like rulers and guides

I have used a few NT products over the year so when I need to buy a bevel cutter to custom-cut the mat for my frames, I pick NT brand first. The blade is sharp and the instruction on the package is easy to comprehend. I cut the mat board on large cutting mat and a long metal ruler I already had. They came out nicely. The trick is to overlap the cut on each corner by 1/16 - 1/8 inch or so (you won't see the overlap cut mark anyway)

Not clear instructions. It says to lower the blade, but the pictures aren’t clear on how you should do that. I think if I had lowered it more I might have cut the mat in fewer than 6 or 8 passes.

I do not recommend this product because it is very uncomfortable to cut. The cutting side is a face of the matt and it leaves dents because the bottom is not flat. The second bad thing is it moves in different directions and it is very hard to control. The third one is the mark where to stop or start is very broad and makes angles cut too far or not cut enough. The design is very poor. Sorry guys! Very disappointed.

Love this mat cutter. Needed a couple mats for some pictures around the house. Local craft store was fairly pricey on them cutting them. Was able to purchase the matting boards and cut them myself. Very easy and simple to use. Highly recommend.

Yikes. This thing was a disaster and no mistake. I did read the reviews before buying so I was ready to test it out before making final cuts, but goodNESS! I had to test an entire piece of museum mat board before I finally figured this thing out. Here are a few things worth mentioning: 1. I never was able to find the sweet spot where the blade could cut through the museum board, which is dense, but not cut too far into my cutting mat. The blade either didn't cut all the way through, or it sliced right through and far into my cutting mat. The issue for me was, I had to press down so hard for it to cut through the mat that my wrists were sore from the effort. 2. The blade would line up right on the line I wanted to cut at the beginning, but as soon as I pressed down hard enough for it to cut through the museum board, it veered off by about 1/8", sometimes more. I had to learn to angle in my straight edge to accommodate this. Angle it too much, though, and the blade would go too far in the opposite direction. 3. Okay, the edge of my cutter, I found, was 3/8 of an inch away from the blade. I needed to get a clean, accurate cut, and the dashes on the side of this thing, intended to help you line up your blade to the line you want to cut, are useless. I'd measure out my cutting line, and then I'd measure out the line I used for the straight edge you need to press your cutter against. Once this was done, I'd then angle my straight edge about 1/8" to accommodate the veering issue. 4. At first I used a ruler as a straight edge, which slipped all over the place. I got out my skid-proof ruler but this too slid away because I had to use a lot of pressure and I'd end up pressing the blade too hard into the straight edge. Lucky for me, I have a big piece of tempered, 1/4" thick and 24 x 36" glass that I set against the cutter and I STILL got some slippage, but not as much. I finally was able to cut my museum board and make an acceptable, passable mat for my print, but my gosh it took a lot of fiddling and in the end I wish I'd just bought the $150 one at the art store and saved myself the wrist aches and the wasted piece of museum board.

Needed to modify a purchased framed mat to fit my daughter’s 30cmx40cm diamond painting. Didn’t want to pay a fortune to have it matted and figured I won’t need a mat cutter many times in my life so I went with this option over professionally framing or an expensive tool. I drew the necessary cut lines on back of mat with pencil. Laid down a cutting mat, my purchased mat, and then a heavy metal ruler. After determining where the ruler needed to be placed, I clamped the ruler down to my kitchen island so that my pencil lines were between the visible area of the tool. Pressed down on tool to confirm the blade hit the mat on the line. Used screw adjustment to adjust the blade to the necessary depth and pressed down and toward mat as I cut. I didn’t practice and it did wander a bit (more when I tried to push down with two hands than when I used one to steady the myself and one to do the cut) but it isn’t noticeable from my finished work. Worked as I expected and am happy to be able to frame the non-US standard 30cmx40cm diamond paintings my daughter has taken a liking to.

This actually works pretty well. Though it does have alignment marks to make things easy and repeatable, I did a test cut first, to get the feel of it and check how to get the bevels to meet without over doing the cut. Got excellent results on the first actual mount cut after that. I'd recommend using either a strong aluminium ruler with a handle for greater non-slip stability or, failing that, clamping the ends of the ruler if possible for best results. It's reasonably well made and should last well with occasional use. However, though the blade it comes with has four cutting edges it will inevitable wear out (whatever claims they make for the longevity of the steel), and there don't appear to be replacement blades available. For occasional use this is pretty good and I'd recommend it for that. However, if you're cutting mounts daily and in quatity then the Logan is the way - though clearly at greater cost. This is great value for the money, though, and works well when used with some care and attention.

Es ist nicht so einfach einen Passpartout schön zu schneiden. Trotz diesem Tool.

Es una herramienta que le añadirá valor a mis acuarelas. Gracias. Fácil de usar.

This works great. Was super choked I could never resize matting because you don’t get that nice little 45 degree cut. But now I can. Little try and error required to gettin the hang of how to place the device while holding a straight edge so definitely practice on scrap material first

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