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You're going to have to cut things. You're going to have to cut down your work. There's
a lot of cutting to do. And one of the ways that you can cut is with a single edge razor.
And I am not kidding, you better be careful with this. You do not want to cut your fingers.
This is a very, very dangerous tool. You keep it out of the reach of children and you keep
it in one place and you keep it way out of the way. Always put it back to the same place.
Now to cut, you're going to do that same thing of having it like straight up and down. Not
like this, not like this, but like this. And I, and I, and I got an idea. Forgot to show
you something. What you want to do is cut on a cutting surface. So here's a cutting
surface. And actually, if I'm going to go that far, I might as well show you that most
of the time when I cut, I'm going to be using a ruler. So here's let's say I want to cut
this line. So I'm going to take the ruler, put it on the line. Everything is kind of
like nose over the thing to make sure you're being exact. And then I'm going to hold it
down, and I'm going to exhale my breath, and I'm going to be ever so careful.
Cut all the way down to the end, and then, okay, so that wasn't, that razor blade is
had its day. It's not quite sharp enough yet to cut completely through, but that's okay.
Sometimes with certain kinds of paper, you want to cut them only halfway through and
then tear. Takes a little bit of skill to do that, but what you wind up with is what's
kind of like a decollete edge. And sometimes that's considered pretty. I mean the edge
is going to show. If it's not a piece where you're going to put a mat over it.