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Originally Posted by sbd Thanks so much. I actually have the genius but find that it shifts the dies because of the spacing of the magnets. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Thanks again. |
You aren't doing anything wrong. The magnetic platform for the Big Shot does the same thing with most of the dies. If you're using a large die, you usually are the boss, but small dies choose where they want to be on the platform. It makes sense, because the magnetic spots are just that.....spots. Most of my dies are small, so I seldom fiddle with my Magnetic Platform anymore, especially because it doesn't hold any die tight enough that there isn't slight movement if I have to roll more than one pass to get the die to cut. "Slight movement" means I have to fiddle with all the edges of the die cut to get them clean.
I have a stack of shims of many different thicknesses. My goal is to make the sandwich thick enough that I'm able to cut on the first pass. However, when the sandwich is so thick I have to struggle to turn the handle, I back off rather than chance breaking the Big Shot/ Cuttlebug.
If you're mass-producing, you'll notice the sandwich you began with was fine when your die was new but it changes as your project progresses, by the way. Dies get "old" and need more pressure, to cut cleanly.
Magnetic plate for Cuttlebug?
