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    Re: Cutting baseplates (Was: Green plate sizes?) —Will Hess
   (...) you (...) line (...) Patience. Clamp the plate and ruler together and make many (MANY!) light cuts along the surface of the plate (1). This takes a while but it works! Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cutting baseplates (Was: Green plate sizes?) —Frank Filz
   (...) I haven't tried, but you should be able to get a nice clean edge by scoring with a knife (one pass) and then snapping. If done right, you don't break either piece. You also shouldn't feel bad about cutting base plates. In just a brief look at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cutting baseplates (Was: Green plate sizes?) —John Radtke
     (...) Has anyone tried using a big paper cutter? You might need to clamp it down somehow to prevent it from pulling to the side but it may work pretty well. John member #388 (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cutting baseplates (Was: Green plate sizes?) —Steve Bliss
   (...) For some reason (ie, "I heard somewhere, at sometime"), I was thinking that baseplates were formed by more of a continuous sheet-feed mechanism. Some kind of vacuum-forming, but with higher precision. Steve (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
 

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