cutting surface

Forget the formica. The glass will slide around on it, making it difficult to hold in place while scoring.

One of my worktables is plywood surfaced, the other is carpeted. I've also seen the Morton surface used successfully.

HI Folks

I'd vote for the Morton surface...

- the way it's made, all the tiny glass chips end up in the 'waffle-holes', rather than on the cutting surface, on the glass, in your thumbs

- clean-up from time to time just uses a hoover or a big plastic 'bin-bag'

- the various Morton 'widgets' make repetitive, accurate cutting easy (if that's what you're doing)

- glass lies flat on the surface & doesn't slide about

Drawbacks..? - can be more trouble than it's worth if cutting tiny pieces of glass (for fusing ..?) - so you need a small flat surface also

Wouldn't be without it

Regards Adrian

Mo> Forget the formica. The glass will slide around on it, making it difficult

The Morton system is made from poly and will wear quickly. The "waffle grid" system from Cutters Mate is made from Lexan and wears considerably better. Also, the pieces can be clipped together either with open grid or smooth surface facing up ( to provide a smooth surface for cutting pieces so small they would otherwise fall into the grid openings), For multi-angle cutting, there is nothing available in the industry better then the Cutters Mate "Beetle Bit" system.

Dennis Brady

Victorian Art Glass -

"waffle grid" system from Cutters Mate is made from Lexan and wears considerably better. <

Lexan IS polycarbonate. Dumbass.

Praps he was thinking polyethylene....

I have about a dozen Morton surfaces that I've been using in classes that are over 16 years old and they are still as good today as the day I bought them. The Beetle Bit system is nothing more than a glorified Morton Portable Glass Shop. Both do exactly the same thing. And...as Moonraker said...dumbass.

Most likely or he wasn't thinking at all....

I'm thinking Cutters Mate is outselling Morton 10 to 1. Seems like everybody 'cept the dolts here know the difference.

Last month I sold 4 Morton Portable glass shops and I sold 5 Beetle systems....not really a 10:1 ratio. I wonder if you've really compared the two.

Or, perhaps, he was displaying that he knows as much about plastics as he does glass?

He'll be writing a book about it. ROTFLMAO

Seen it. Read it. Didn't contain anything that hasn't already been published...in many more books.

published...in many more books.>

Why, Chemo!!! Are you accusing the erudite Mr. Brady of plagarism?

I took a morton surface and turned it upside down, fit it into a wood frame and put a single tube light inside and made a light box and have cut glass on it for 25 years, and it has held up great, plus have used an old piece of plywood for my cutting square, works great for little to no money

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HTH :)