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Lots of threads here and on TFG lately on glass.

Only recently tried not cleaning boxed paper interleaved stuff at all - big success.

Also been very careful on the maxi-slasher, which has a metal 'bed' or channel for the glass to stand on - how many times have I manged to let a sheet of glass drop on that and chipped off a chunk. It's also got a hard back for the glass to rest on and slide against.

Have been using sheets of suedette board against the support to protect coated glass - works fine, but writes those boards off after a few sheets - extravagant!

So - thinking of permanently lining the bed and back of the slasher with fabric - I say permanently, but it will need replacing now and again as glass slides along both bed and back.

Thinking of suedette but not sure of adhesive, needs to be fairly strong but not permanent.

John,

I have a 2mm thick strip of flat, not hard, plastic on the bottom shelf of my cutter to prevent breakage.
I use a sheet of cheap matboard behind the glass and when sliding the glass along, I grip the glass and the matboard so they do not slide on each other, but slide together.

Roboframer wrote:Thinking of suedette but not sure of adhesive, needs to be fairly strong but not permanent.

Govenlight do self-adhesive display suede, might be worth a try!

Not your average framer wrote: Govenlight do self-adhesive display suede, might be worth a try!

Overkill and unnecessary in my humble opinion!
One hazard with anything that has a textured surface is that it can hold onto little glass fragments that you may not see, so when you slide glass on it........scraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!!

KISS principle rules!!!

Slide-it-with-it sounds good and simple Ormond

Just looking for a quick-fix - something there anyway - I have a stiff brush (!) and if the suedette was ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, black .....?

Yes ..... BLACK - I must get the BLACK out .....

.....BLACK ............BLACK - ..... I am blind - the gulls have taken my eyes!

For those occasions, I use strips of double sided, smooth mat (mount?) board. I simply tack these mat boards with a short strip of rolled over masking tape to keep it in place. I feel comfortable sliding this premium glass over the mat board and don’t have to worry about the board slipping. Masking tape has such a low tack that it is easily removed without worrying about residual goop being left behind.

One slab of mat board is cut to the dimensions of the cutting table plus a little. Since you are not scoring past the level of the “groove” in the glass cutter, one sheet that covers the whole thing will do.

The other mat strip covers the 45° metal brace that holds the horizontal measuring arm to the cutter itself also held in place by the masking tape.

Originally we used suede, but it was an expensive accessory. And, as others point out, because of the nap (knap?, gnap?), it tended to collect debris, not the least of which was lint which is awfully had to remove from that material.

We reuse those two strips of mat board. Before using them again, we dust them with a camel hair brush which seems to be all that is needed to keep the goobers off.