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2. Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   Paper cutters are also used for cutting thin sheet metal, cardboard, and plastic. A variant of this design uses a wheel-shaped blade mounted on a sliding shuttle attached to a rail. This type of paper cutter is known as a rotary paper cutter. Advantages of this design include being able to make wavy cuts, and perforations or to simply to score ...

3. Guillotine cutting - Wikipedia

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   A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing rectangle to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine. Guillotine cutting is particularly common in the glass industry. Glass sheets are scored along horizontal and vertical lines, and then broken along these lines to ...

4. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

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   The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [2] [3] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.

5. Talk:Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   there is a difference between a guillotine (one blade which rests in a stop after cutting, cuts like a knife) and paper cutter (two blades, produces shear force like a scissors). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briesas ( talk • contribs ) 22:41, 12 November 2012 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]

6. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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   The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈɡɪlətiːn, - loʊ -/ GHIH-lə-teen, -⁠loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a ...

7. Sharpening - Wikipedia

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   Sharpening. Sharpening is the process of creating or refining the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting. Sharpening is done by removing material on an implement with an abrasive substance harder than the material of the implement ...