This involved sitting at a drawing or light table making many long cuts using a straight edge and X-Acto knife.
One morning our typist Pam was helping with paste-up. We heard a loud scream.
Her X-Acto knife had rolled off the slight angle of her desk and stuck in her thigh.
At one time, X-Acto made a knife handle with a hinge on the top end. You could flip the end making a bend in the handle preventing it from rolling. I couldn't find any of these online.
There is a no-roll handle on this Gripster knife -On TRF there is a thread on Model Rocket Tips.
Sooner Boomer wrote:
Stick an eraser on the end of your X-Acto handle, this will help keep it from rolling.
GrouchoDuke had the best answer -
A zip tie works really well too.
I just added a twist tie to the back of my knife handle.
My father was an illustrator in the late 60's and I remember as a kid he had wrapped masking tape around the end of the handle creating a tab which stopped it from rolling. He had a lot of other cool stuff on his drawing table, too.
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