I do a variety of crafts including origami. With origami, you have to get the cut exactly perfect and exactly square for the end result to come out properly. I'm often doing shapes for weddings or special occasions where there is an unusual request. I'll need to make large origami cranes from vellum, or watercolored origami lotus flowers, or that sort of thing. So I need a cutter that can do the job. I wouldn't dream of trying to do these by hand with scissors.

The guillotine might be fine for cutting coupons, or separating tax forms, or other things where it doesn't have to be precise. But I find that the drawing motion of the blade pulls the paper and, despite my best efforts, won't make an exactly perfect cut. With the rolling cutters, there's no issue at all. It's exactly perfect. Plus it's far easier and safer.

This unit is pretty much all lightweight plastic and doesn't feel sturdy. The blade does lock with a safety catch, but I wouldn't want this around kids. It's fairly sharp. So you have a sharp blade but it doesn't make precise cuts.

To make things a little worse, their guide lines are fairly fat, so you're not able to make a precise measurement, either.

So I'm not sure where I'd recommend this. In just about every situation where I could see someone using this, I could see them using the rotary one instead, and the rotary one would work better. Still, I'll give it three stars for being at least reasonably ok at performing its task.

We were sent a review copy by the Amazon vine program.
I do a variety of crafts including origami. With origami, you have to get the cut exactly perfect and exactly square for the end result to come out properly. I'm often doing shapes for weddings or special occasions where there is an unusual request. I'll need to make large origami cranes from vellum, or watercolored origami lotus flowers, or that sort of thing. So I need a cutter that can do the job. I wouldn't dream of trying to do these by hand with scissors. The guillotine might be fine for cutting coupons, or separating tax forms, or other things where it doesn't have to be precise. But I find that the drawing motion of the blade pulls the paper and, despite my best efforts, won't make an exactly perfect cut. With the rolling cutters, there's no issue at all. It's exactly perfect. Plus it's far easier and safer. This unit is pretty much all lightweight plastic and doesn't feel sturdy. The blade does lock with a safety catch, but I wouldn't want this around kids. It's fairly sharp. So you have a sharp blade but it doesn't make precise cuts. To make things a little worse, their guide lines are fairly fat, so you're not able to make a precise measurement, either. So I'm not sure where I'd recommend this. In just about every situation where I could see someone using this, I could see them using the rotary one instead, and the rotary one would work better. Still, I'll give it three stars for being at least reasonably ok at performing its task. We were sent a review copy by the Amazon vine program.