cross cutter

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eddcase1
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cross cutter

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Help please
I am looking for a guillotine type cross cutter, the type attached to an a5 deck and uses stanley type blades
i know they exists as i have seen them even used one.
What are they called ?
who makes them ?
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Think you might have to explain a bit more about what you want. What does it do?
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it cuts balsa , card, styrene strip and light metals at up to about 2 -5mm, it looks like an A5 cutting mat with a guilotine down the middle, lift to change blades
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Something like this,,,??? thickness of cut will go up with the price....

https://www.viking-direct.co.uk/en/offi ... -p-7033647
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think of that in miniature hence stanley blade,handle is the same size
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This sort of thing? E M A Supplies. http://www.ema-models.co.uk/index.php/h ... opper.html
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thats just the thing. thank you very much. just ordered one.
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