Need new paper cutter/trimmer

It looks like purple Cow offered rotary and guillotine style trimmers; not sure which you had.

I currently have three:

A lightweight self-sharpening 12” guillotine Fiskars which may only be available from Club Scrap.

The 9” Fiskars triple-track card making.

The Tim Holtz 12” track-style Precision Trimmer.

I like all of them well enough. The little Fiskars is clearly most portable and compact. The scoring blade works well. It can’t cut 12” paper or even letter size into top-fold 11x4.25 bases, but is the best to keep on the desk once the main cutting is done for incidental trimming or for bringing on the go.

Which 12” I reach for at a given time depends on a few factors. Any sketch instructions written by Tricia at CS will be designed for that trimmer, so that’s a no-brainer. When I design a batch=project, often think of my cuts that way as well. Sketches from Stampin’ Up demonstrators, including Crafty Al’s Sheet-load of Cards, tend to work better for a track style trimmer, so I grab the TH. It’s also more compact and portable than the guillotine, so if I’m leaving home and working on a project where I need to make longer cuts, that’s what I take. Its scoring blade kind of sucks, though. It also seems to have more issues than my little Fiskars with the track clogging and needing to be cleaned out.

Good point, jill8909…the other factor affecting which trimmer I reach for on a given day is “not the one that most recently pissed me off”!

I have been around the block with paper trimmers over the last year or so. My office/craft space is multi-purpose so I do not have room for large guillotine or rotary trimmer to sit out. I need one that can pop into a drawer easy-peasy.

* I had a 12" Fiskars Sure-cut (the one with the wire). Love it but it eats through blades more quickly than I'd like. I have kept it for taking with me when I craft with others.
* Then I bought a Tonic Precisions 12" and it also eats through blades. <---- if anyone wants to purchase mine or my friend's for $10 each (retail is $35) + shipping LMK.
* When the Tonic rotary went on sale at 50% off a couple of months ago, I bought one. LOVE it! That said, the markings on it make it difficult for me to make tiny (1/16" - 1/8") cuts. So, I use the Tonic rotary for 1/4" or larger cuts, but then bought the 9" Fiskars Sure-cut for small cuts. It stays out on my desk when I'm crafting.

I think I have finally found my solution (fingers crossed). Good luck with your decision!

Dahle rotary trimmer is a workhorse. I use this to cut card bases & larger pieces of paper. Anything under 8" I use a small Tonic guillotine that sits on my craft desk.

This is the Fiskars guillotine from CS. I’ve searched for the model number on Fiskars web site and not found it. It seems almost like Fiskars discontinued it for retail and produces it only for CS now. It is a great trimmer. Every now and again I have small issue with it and CS gives great troubleshooting advice. My craft space is multipurpose. Any guillotine trimmer is bulky and somewhat tricky to store, but this one is lightweight enough to make it easy to pick and move from storage to desk and back.

I still use the original grey/orange Fiskars trimmer lol

Thank you

I have the photo trimmer with the bag too.