Jumpshoutmedia
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Note: Sorry for the bad quality photo, it's the only one I could find of the cutter and it was sitting in the background, so I had to crop everything else out and zoom in on the cutter.
Does anyone remember this cutter?
I believe it was called a "linear cutter" or "linear slicer"
The first and only one that I ever saw like it, was the one shown in my photo, and it was made by a small company called Han-D-Cut, and I believe the company was just an older gentleman who owned and operated the company, and if I remember correctly.. this product was his own invention/design, he manufactured the cutters himself and primarily sold to the sign industry (I think I remember seeing him at sign conventions).
But anyway, the reason I'm asking is because this cutter has been an indispensable tool around my shop, I've been using it for 15+ years.
Recently, I was cleaning it up and making some adjustments to it, and I took a good look it and the home-made aspect of how it was manufactured, and I started to wondered if that type of cutter was even still available for purchase.
Then I vaguely remembered that at one point I think the old man sold the company or the design itself to another sign supply type company, who (may or may not) have re-branded it, and was selling an updated version of it under a different name, but I can no longer find ANYTHING like it online anywhere! (not even a mention of the product name on an old website)
Perhaps I'm just searching the wrong thing, but I tried "linear slicer, linear cutter, linear paper cutter, etc" as well as the product/company name "han-d-cut" <--do NOT google that phrase btw. and I even tried going to the website printed on the platen and an old box of replacement blades that I had, to see if it would forward to whichever company took over the product. The url was han-d-cut.com and the domain is no longer active.
I'm just wondering if anyone had or has one of these cutters, and if they know what happened to the company and/or the product?
Did it evolved into something else.. OR did it just disappeared all together, as I fear it might have!?
I seem to remember looking at the time that I originally bought mine, and being able to find several other products that were similar to the Han-D-Cut, in that, they had a fixed (NOT rotary) blade mounted to a track/rail of some sort, and you would drag the blade across the material to slice it, but all of the alternative versions were MUCH more expensive, and they didn't seem as skookum as the Han-D-Cut, which was made of aluminum, steel, melamine, and the only "plastic" on the entire thing was the blade carrier, which was machined out of a solid block of super-durable and very slick/slippery UHMW or Delrin.
If it did disappear, then that would be a damn SHAME, because it was a really handy, inexpensive way to cleanly cut/slice a fairly-thick stack of decals (10-20 layers thick), as well as prints, banner etc.
As I've already mentioned, I used the HELL out of mine, and as a matter of fact.. I feels like I've slid that delrin blade carrier across that guide rail at least a MILLION times over the past 15 years, and it has a shiny path/groove worn into the aluminum extrusion to prove it!
If anyone has any info as to the history of this product, and it's fate, I'd love to know!
Thanks
Does anyone remember this cutter?
I believe it was called a "linear cutter" or "linear slicer"
The first and only one that I ever saw like it, was the one shown in my photo, and it was made by a small company called Han-D-Cut, and I believe the company was just an older gentleman who owned and operated the company, and if I remember correctly.. this product was his own invention/design, he manufactured the cutters himself and primarily sold to the sign industry (I think I remember seeing him at sign conventions).
But anyway, the reason I'm asking is because this cutter has been an indispensable tool around my shop, I've been using it for 15+ years.
Recently, I was cleaning it up and making some adjustments to it, and I took a good look it and the home-made aspect of how it was manufactured, and I started to wondered if that type of cutter was even still available for purchase.
Then I vaguely remembered that at one point I think the old man sold the company or the design itself to another sign supply type company, who (may or may not) have re-branded it, and was selling an updated version of it under a different name, but I can no longer find ANYTHING like it online anywhere! (not even a mention of the product name on an old website)
Perhaps I'm just searching the wrong thing, but I tried "linear slicer, linear cutter, linear paper cutter, etc" as well as the product/company name "han-d-cut" <--do NOT google that phrase btw. and I even tried going to the website printed on the platen and an old box of replacement blades that I had, to see if it would forward to whichever company took over the product. The url was han-d-cut.com and the domain is no longer active.
I'm just wondering if anyone had or has one of these cutters, and if they know what happened to the company and/or the product?
Did it evolved into something else.. OR did it just disappeared all together, as I fear it might have!?
I seem to remember looking at the time that I originally bought mine, and being able to find several other products that were similar to the Han-D-Cut, in that, they had a fixed (NOT rotary) blade mounted to a track/rail of some sort, and you would drag the blade across the material to slice it, but all of the alternative versions were MUCH more expensive, and they didn't seem as skookum as the Han-D-Cut, which was made of aluminum, steel, melamine, and the only "plastic" on the entire thing was the blade carrier, which was machined out of a solid block of super-durable and very slick/slippery UHMW or Delrin.
If it did disappear, then that would be a damn SHAME, because it was a really handy, inexpensive way to cleanly cut/slice a fairly-thick stack of decals (10-20 layers thick), as well as prints, banner etc.
As I've already mentioned, I used the HELL out of mine, and as a matter of fact.. I feels like I've slid that delrin blade carrier across that guide rail at least a MILLION times over the past 15 years, and it has a shiny path/groove worn into the aluminum extrusion to prove it!
If anyone has any info as to the history of this product, and it's fate, I'd love to know!
Thanks
Thank you!