connect the dots, using a silver sharpie for hard to see edges Options

[lilDetails]

I just recently started using dots, about 1 inch apart, on the edges of film when I am having a hard time seeing to cut. I have to do a great deal of 5% film and it is just hard to see through that film unless the shop lights can be turned off.....

Use a sharpie to make marks along the edge and then just connect the dots with your olfa to finish it off......

[naughtydog]

sounds good but if you can see the matrix to put the dots on - can you not cut it then also?

[FilmBlazer]

I believe he is marking the window before the film is layed and shrunk upon the outside.

[naughtydog]

aagh..Ok. Good idea

[lilDetails]

not marking before, but I have done that too.....

I am using this for the hard to see, I can't cut more than an inch at a time, I don't want to make a bad cut times.

Making a dot with a sharpie you can always move the mark. A knife cut will be a permanent mistake!

You can cut very quickly following the dots and not worry about making a mistake.

The picture has my light inside the window.

This has been edited by lilDetails: Jun 13 2008, 06:41 AM

[Limo Tint Larry]

you need to hire an umpaloompa with a really bright maglight!

[darkdan]

It's called a drop light. They're $10, buy one (or two).

[lilDetails]

hoohhuuhhooohhhaaahhh.............

If I didn't have MOST of the back windows on cars doing 5% (yes it is LEGAL) then it might be as simple as using the drop light.

If I could turn out the shop lights in the bay in most of the shops then it might be that simple too.....

This is for those really hard to see without moving the light 10 times to cut a foot of film sort of edges!

[darkdan]

Yeah, I don't miss Iowa and having to do 5% on every car.

[Beeline]

I just recently started using dots, about 1 inch apart, on the edges of film when I am having a hard time seeing to cut. I have to do a great deal of 5% film and it is just hard to see through that film unless the shop lights can be turned off.....

Use a sharpie to make marks along the edge and then just connect the dots with your olfa to finish it off......

I used to do that years ago when we cut out brake lights, but never the border. Good tip though.

[Beeline]

This is not 5% but you get the idea.......
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c231/shaedz/light1.jpg

[boomer]

Seems time consuming.

[tint325i]

i never cut film on a car, always on cutting board, no risk of scratching glass, if you say the state of my cutting boards you'd see why!! lol!

[TintWizard]

i never cut film on a car, always on cutting board, no risk of scratching glass, if you say the state of my cutting boards you'd see why!! lol!

You need to but stainless steel blades..and if you already do and it's still scratching , change the angle or the pressure and snap your blades often and you wont scratch the glass, I work on new cars for the dealer all the time..cars that arent sold yet, I always cut on the glass and never scratch it as I'm sure many on here do as well

[tint325i]

you need 2? why? i never cut on a car, and i never cut seals (vandalism in my book!! lol!) i didnt say i didnt know how to do it i just said i didnt do it, if im not cutting on the car then there is absolutely no risk at all, 100% no scratches, 100% no nicked gaskets, just the way i like to do things

[Lord_of_the_Tint...]

I just recently started using dots, about 1 inch apart, on the edges of film when I am having a hard time seeing to cut. I have to do a great deal of 5% film and it is just hard to see through that film unless the shop lights can be turned off.....

Use a sharpie to make marks along the edge and then just connect the dots with your olfa to finish it off......

nice idea, but i find it easier and less time consuming to cut on glass.
I have never scratched windows, gotta use the right blades.

[Tintim]

why don't you just make templates and pre-cut the film.

[solarworkscummin...]

good tip yo

[Tint_Guru]

A good way to prevent scratching the glass is to get a plastic button off an old shirt. Place it between the film and the glass, poke your OLFA through the tint into the button and cut away.

[lilDetails]

This TIP has nothing to do with cutting on the glass or off of the glass! It is all about making marks to follow to cut when you have a hard time seeing the edge of the glass. You can use the marker to make the marks and move them if you need to where a knife will be a permanent mistake if you mis-cut...

[maddtinter]

I just recently started using dots, about 1 inch apart, on the edges of film when I am having a hard time seeing to cut. I have to do a great deal of 5% film and it is just hard to see through that film unless the shop lights can be turned off.....

Use a sharpie to make marks along the edge and then just connect the dots with your olfa to finish it off......

What b/g is this?

[WISEGUYSinc]

i gonna guess that bg is on an older honda...

[twotint]

Looks like a older GM vehicle by the glass mldg.

[lilDetails]

I think it was a 1995 Grand Am, but I am not even sure now.....very dark corner and rear deck was black....