Westcott TrimAir Paper Trimmer 12’ (30 cm) | Premium Cutting Machine with Wooden core and Titanium-Coated Blade | Guillotine Cutter incl. Grid & Measuring Scales for up to 30 Sheets | 15106

As a greeting card designer i've been through a fair few paper cutter's and trimmers. This is by far the best one i've had. The blade self sharpens, and the cuts are clean with no fraying or tearing. Very sturdy and quite heavy. Feels a lot more expensive than it was.

A very good trimmer for this price.Perfect size for small places, wonderful choices for those who are at the beginning of their stationary business.

The example we received was fatally flawed. The alignment grid was misaligned by 2mm over the length of 30cm, so that nothing could be trimmed to a right angle. I have given it 1 star for accuracy and "ease of use" - since with a great deal of difficulty it would be possible to quite separately produce my own right angle alignment grid, properly align it to the blade, etc, etc - but you don't pay £47 for that kind of faffing about. That's a pity because otherwise the machine was of good quality, sturdy and sharp. And fine if you just want to make random cuts. We had to return it, and didn't have time to mess around trying a second sample. The company who makes it needs to try some quality control.

I purchased this to replace another item which I was not happy about the blade was bending when cutting so it wasn't straight. This 1 is brilliant the blade cuts without bowing away from the counter blade it has good safety features light weight but very sturdy

A good weight (not too heavy to manoeuvre but heavy enough to stay in place while cutting) & sharp. Cuts cleanly through multiple pages and cardboard. Safety lock is sturdy so won’t accidentally slip when moving. About 1 cm too small if you’re planing to cut a full a3 lengthways but great for smaller sizes. Can cut a signature of 10 (ie 20 pages) but I doubt you’d get anything thicker under the guard Grids not perfect (about 1mm off from the top and bottom) but accurate enough for a home project. Just be sure to have something consistent to line a signature against if you’re using this for bookbinding. Clearly a return as box has obviously been opened before but I can’t see anything wrong with the product

This is a rather specialist review as it deals with cutting 2mm card. I use this for making slip cases for books and decided that a guillotine would make the job quicker and easier. It did. What I found cutting by hand was that I often did not get a 90 degree angle along the edge (Simply because I did not seem to able to hold the knife at a consistent angle). This produces much better results and there is less fiddling about trying to get a good join. Additionally it is far easier to take a sliver off the card than it is by hand. Accuracy is easier to maintain. I agree with the criticism that using the blade and straight edge of the machine does produce errors but as I mark out the card it is easy to cut to the line by lining the marks up with the edge of the cutting plate. I can confirm that the blade is very sharp. I managed to cut myself on it . You have been warned.

Great cutter. Be careful with blade though. It’s extremely sharp as I found out to my cost! It does cut accurately

Good quality and heavy enough. Unfortunately after some time of heavy usage one side of plastic which you keep paper on place stuck and when pressed broke off so now is slightly loose so cutting paper require more precision and attention to not broke the other side. Used for 80gsm and 120gsm paper and easily cut 5 sheets of both. Used on my working bench so rubbers do a good job and hold trimmer on one place.