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[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

The hot wire story has been debunked several times.

https://forums.collectors.com/discus...-cut-is-solved

Thanks for the link. I'll be interested in reading. Local OPC employees have mentioned the wire as part of the process, so I have never had reason to question it.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Has it been definitively debunked? If so, I struggle with what I have heard locally over the years. Certainly wish I knew these former employees I talked to, but it was just conversations in passing, being local to the area. They would have had no vested interest in lying about it.

My only possible questions would then be, was the wire used initially, then this other system brought in? Or, possibly, both methods utilized at the same time? This latter speculation could certainly account for the varying quality as well, and how there were definitely more nicer cuts as the years progressed.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

Has it been definitively debunked? If so, I struggle with what I have heard locally over the years. Certainly wish I knew these former employees I talked to, but it was just conversations in passing, being local to the area. They would have had no vested interest in lying about it.

My only possible questions would then be, was the wire used initially, then this other system brought in? Or, possibly, both methods utilized at the same time? This latter speculation could certainly account for the varying quality as well, and how there were definitely more nicer cuts as the years progressed.

My problem is I can find no evidence that ANY paper has EVER been cut with a hot wire. I worked for a printing company for 4 years, nobody there had ever heard of it, not even the old-timers.

If a wire is hot enough to cut paper how is it not setting stuff on fire, or at the very least scorching the edges? I think it's an urban legend that grew very long legs.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

My problem is I can find no evidence that ANY paper has EVER been cut with a hot wire. I worked for a printing company for 4 years, nobody there had ever heard of it, not even the old-timers.

If a wire is hot enough to cut paper how is it not setting stuff on fire, or at the very least scorching the edges? I think it's an urban legend that grew very long legs.

Because the sheets were cut while damp. The rough cuts stemmed from when they were too damp, so the story goes.

But yes, it makes me wonder where all the singed-edged printer's scrap went off to!

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

Because the sheets were cut while damp. The rough cuts stemmed from when they were too damp, so the story goes.

But yes, it makes me wonder where all the singed-edged printer's scrap went off to!

If you've ever taken a sheet right off an offset press they are basically dry. If they weren't you'd have ink everywhere. This idea that the paper is wet enough to not burn when sliced by a hot wire just flies in the face of everything I know about printing.

[Snowman]

These comments are hilarious

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

My problem is I can find no evidence that ANY paper has EVER been cut with a hot wire. I worked for a printing company for 4 years, nobody there had ever heard of it, not even the old-timers.

If a wire is hot enough to cut paper how is it not setting stuff on fire, or at the very least scorching the edges? I think it's an urban legend that grew very long legs.

Most Canadians actually believe that workers in the OPC London plant were slicing up all the sheets using wires! I never worked in the printing industry, but man, this story made zero sense to me (cutting sheets using wires ?? WTF ??) I did manage to talk to Ken McAvoy, who was the supervisor at the OPC plant from 1980 to 1998, and he told me there was no such thing.