Product Description

Scotch Gift Wrap Cutter is great for cutting gift wrap paper and curling ribbon. The product is faster than scissors for easy, clean, straight cuts. It also is designed for safety since there is no exposed blade. Product comes with a built in ribbon curler.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10313 in Office Product
• Color: Pink, Green, or Blue
• Brand: Scotch
• Model: 14-RC
• Published on: 2009-09-22
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.70" h x 3.75" w x .80" l, .5 pounds

Features

• Safer and faster than scissors for easy, clean, straight cuts
• Great for cutting gift wrap, coupons, recipes, food storage bags and many other home and office paper items
• Comes with built-in ribbon curler
• Made in the U.S.A.
• Designed for safety since there is no exposed blade

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Does what it says! A decent tool for cutting out articles, etc.
By Debra Hamel
The Scotch Gift Wrap Cutter does well what it claims to do. It offers a safe tool--safe because the blade is not exposed--for making straight cuts in wrapping paper. It's more convenient to use for that purpose than scissors and is probably safer as well. When I'm cutting wrapping paper with scissors I inevitably end up with jagged cuts. If you're using this for wrapping presents, though, it's possible that you'll still want to have scissors nearby in case you have to make cuts when you're working on the ends of a package: cutting off extra bulk to make square corners might be more easily achieved with scissors.

The Scotch Cutter works well with thin paper, but a bit better with the thicker, higher quality gift wrap. If the paper is very thin you have to take a bit more care in holding the paper firmly at the edge when you're beginning your cut. The curling ribbon feature is just a bit of plastic on the back of the device against which you can run ribbon to cur l it. This works fine, but there's no magic involved in the process.

I've tried the Cutter also on newspapers and magazines. In both cases it works well for cutting out articles. It certainly excels at straight cuts. It can also make curved cuts to a limited degree, but for cutting out images or anything but the most basic curves you'll want to use scissors or an X-Acto knife.

-- Debra Hamel

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Handy Tool for Gift Givers and Crafters
By T. Adlam
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2K5U07I6ATDC4 After playing with this tool for a couple of weeks, I'm pleasantly surprised. While it can be looked upon as nothing more than a glorified knife, it does come in handy. The plastic covering helps protect from the occasional nick and from scarring your cutting surface. It's worked near flawlessly on almost all of the paper I've tried it on: wrapping paper, tissue paper, magazines, printer paper, even card stock (though they advise you not to). For me, it does cut more quickly than a pair of scissors and requires less effort (i.e. no opening/closing motion).

Overall this is a great product, especially if you do quite a bit of clipping--whether coupons or arts/crafts--but I am concerned about the blade's lifespan. While I don't expect it to last a decade, it seems to me that with continued use, the blade will be worn out in a few months' time.

There is one other caveat; while it's relatively simple to use, it doesn't come with crystal clear instructions. For instance, the demonstration image on the back of the product showed the tool being held a specific way--unfortunately, that wouldn't work for me and I had to adjust accordingly. Basically, you might need to play around a little bit until you find your comfort angle.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Scissors, please.
By Katherine Hooper
Great idea, but not really very practical. It cuts great after you get it lined up perfectly, but if you don't, it just snags the paper. It takes more time to get it into a position that will make it cut smoothly than it does to get up and find a pair of scissors. Anyway, you need the scissors for other parts of the gift-wrapping process (cutting the extra paper off the ends, cutting ribbons, etc). Why have two tools?