For years, many of our punchouts had soot from the laser cutting process, but not anymore! Over the past few months, you may have noticed your punchouts and cardstock are arriving cleaner than ever. That’s because we’ve transitioned from laser cutting to a steel cutting method.
Everything except Custom Acrylic will now be steel cut.
Now that we’ve made the switch to steel cutting, you can look forward to cleaner punchouts, smoother production, and soot-free shapes, opening up new creative possibilities that weren’t feasible before! Here are some things that you may have avoided in the past due to soot that are now possible:
Games with a lot of custom-cutouts have had a dreadful initial experience. For something like the Ziggurat this will be a game changer. I have a prototype dual-layer tracking board and map cut out in the post. Hopefully I made the steel “cut” and can report on how different this process makes components.
Even though I have made some critical comments about some of TGC’s components, the soot never really bothered me – but it’s definitely something that bothers a whole lot of other people, so it’s probably a good thing for creators and players that they’re changing it.
