Hi thanks for joining me today. I am going to show you how to use your fiskars trimmer and how to figure out the 1/8 versus the 1/16 mark and it is really pretty easy once you get it down. It took me a while, several years ago, but I have it now. Okay, if you look real close to your trimmer, here is your one and here is the two inch and in between the one inch ands the two inch you have 15 lines. The lighter colored lines are your 16th lines and the darker lines are your 8th lines. Okay, so, again, the line next to the one is 1/16th so if you are going in 16th it would be 1/16th, 2/16th, 3/16th, 4/16th all the way down to 15. But, instead of counting that way, the first line is of course is 1/16th and then the next bolder line would be 1/8th. So, then after that bold line then you would have 2/8th’s Well technically, that is actually a 4th, but then you would have your 3/8th’s and then your 4/8th’s except that is 4/8th is actually a half. So, each of the dark lines represents an 8th and the lighter lines represent a 16th.
Okay, I am going to show you really fast, let say that I want to cut this. Let me put on my cutting blade on here. Let us say I want to cut this at 1-3/16th’s Okay, I want to line this up and if I just wanted to count the lines, let us say I did not know how to do this yet. Okay, we will line up the roots 1/16th, 2/16th, 3, 4. Let say I want to cut it at 1-5/16 okay. It is kind of hard to do it up in the air, but anyway so you saw that.
Now, let us say I wanted to cut this at 1-7/8th’s Okay so the same thing, the bold lines, see here, I want to make sure you can see that and I am going to move this over, so this is 1/8th, 2,3,4,5,6,7 so the 7 and 8th mark is right before the 15th and 16th. Okay, you just continue to count all the way up to you get to 15. Okay, so I just cut that in 2-7/8th.
Do you have any questions? Let me know. I am going to show you that the other term that some of you might have and it is this one. This one does not have the 16th lines on it, so you could use it for cutting and scoring on the 8th marks, but this trimmer is the only one that actually has the 16th marks. So let me know if you have any questions. Thanks a lot. Bye.
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