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aaversa
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Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:28 am |
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Hello,
I am wondering if anyone has ever tried to make their own cookie cutter? I need a number 1 cookie cutter. I know I could order online but of course, I need it ASAP  so I'm wondering how hard it would be to make my own???
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JoAnnB
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Location: Salem, Oregon
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Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:33 am |
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Sure you can. The risk is the the sharp edges of cut metal can hurt you. You can use a strip of copper flashing from the hardware store, and using pliers, shape it to fit. You can use a little rivet gun (like a staple gun) or two sided apoxy tape, of just a heavy tape to hold it together. |
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aaversa
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Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:36 am |
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Oh great - thanks for the info... looks like I'll be heading to Home Depot on the way home from work!  |
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Cake_Princess
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Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:37 pm |
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KHalstead
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:52 am |
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JoAnn.........I"ve searched high and low for this stuff to make cookie cutters, everyone at my Home Depot thinks I'm nuts!!!! Do you have to cut the copper flashing down??? Or are you able to actually find it in like a 1" width???? I saw the little kits online for making your own cutters and they say they come with copper ribbon......so that's what I've been asking for and you wouldn't believe the looks people are giving me. One guy actually said .........you wanna use it for cookie cutters??? I don't know if that's food safe...copper!!!!.......I said, aren't most cookie cutters made from copper???? He said...oh, yeah I guess but I'm sure it's a different kind !!!!! LOL Anyhow, maybe I need to start asking for the flashing....the only stuff I"ve seen is about 6" in width and it feels too flimsy to be a cookie cutter to me. |
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bonniebakes
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:06 am |
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I bought a cookie cutter "kit" (where you shape your own), but haven't used it yet.
Instead, when I don't have the rigth shape cutter, I make a template on my own and use it as a guide to cut the dough with a sharp knife. I havppen to have a laminator for my business (not food related), so I laminate them on cardstock and can reuse them - very similar to the process Cake Princess posted about in an earlier thread. She even gave pictures of each step!! |
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KHalstead
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:27 am |
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I make templates too........but it would be so much faster to make my own cutters.........the templates work great though, I use the plastic sheets that they sell in craft stores for making your own stencils they work great and they're washable and reuseable!!! |
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slejdick
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:56 am |
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I love my cookie cutters, but there are some shapes that I make templates for because I only need a few, or I need it RIGHT NOW  LOL! (usually due to lack of planning, but that'd be a whole other thread  )
I have started saving my lids from margarine tubs, crisco cans, and coffee cans to cut and use as templates - free is good!
Laura. |
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SquirrellyCakes
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:25 am |
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| bonniebakes wrote: | I bought a cookie cutter "kit" (where you shape your own), but haven't used it yet.
Instead, when I don't have the rigth shape cutter, I make a template on my own and use it as a guide to cut the dough with a sharp knife. I havppen to have a laminator for my business (not food related), so I laminate them on cardstock and can reuse them - very similar to the process Cake Princess posted about in an earlier thread. She even gave pictures of each step!! |
That is what I did some thirty odd years ago. If you don't have a laminator, you can cover the cardstock or ordinary cardboard, I used to use the cardboard that came in pantyhose, and cover it with clear contact paper, the shelf liner you can use for covering books? It is vinyl and food safe. Then you can wipe them clean and re-use. I used to store these cut outs in photo albums with plastic sleeves to keep them flat.
I think people use the aluminum flashing and tin cutters for making cookie cutters. You can buy aluminum sheeting in different grades and use that with a pair of tin cutters.
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kyjettachick
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:30 pm |
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I actually did this on monday. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, but my sea turtle cutter did turn out pretty good. I couldn't find the copper flashing, but I was able to find some thin metal that I cut into strips with some tinsnips. It's time consuming, but works in a pinch. |
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Brendansmum
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:35 pm |
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I needed a jockey silk cookie cutter for the Derby and I made one using a sheet of aluminum I bought at Lowes. I just cut it into strips and bent it to fit around my paper template and had my brother in law weld it for me. Then just sanded the edges so it wasn't so sharp. Worked pretty good and cost was under $2 for the cookies cutter. Plus I have enough metal leftover to make 7 more. |
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Kos
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:40 pm |
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| slejdick wrote: | I have started saving my lids from margarine tubs, crisco cans, and coffee cans to cut and use as templates - free is good!
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Now that is a great idea! May I call you "Martha" for that tip? 
I'm going to use that one for sure. I'm working on my "C-Game" cookies for the cookie club!
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FatAndHappy
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:46 pm |
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I needed a penis (mortified!!!) cookie cutter and couldn't find one so I bent a lighthouse cutter I had and made it look like one. Some needlenose pliers and a little elbow grease was all it took! Good luck! |
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Darra
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:55 pm |
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Phoov
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:00 pm |
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khalstead!!! Not that all Home Depot employees are dull or anything like that~~~ but I've gone into our local HD and asked for some pretty simple stuff, that I KNOW they have to carry (PAINT, for instance.....and I get this dull, lobotomy-type response!!!!!!! LOLOL! |
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