Tonic - Tangerine - Tangerine Machine With Plates - 138e

It is everything and more on what has been said about it. Only regret, I wish I had not waited so long to get it. I love the size of the plates (all that space) and all the dies at one time I can cut out from the smallest to the largest with only one pass. I received it very quickly (4 days from the day I ordered it). The size and weight of the Tangerine is great plus the top is flat so your plates can be placed on top of of it. I use them as another work area as I place my paper and dies and you are not having to bend over. Love it, love it and would highly recommend purchasing The Tangerine. I also wish I had known about it before I had previously purchased 3 other die cutting machines.

It's the plates! So easy and uncomplicated. I use them all. The embossing is beautiful. It cuts like butter!

Customer service was amazing. I had the wrong delivery and billing address and they changed everything so quickly without any questions.

My former - discontinued - die cutting machine was in the process of biting the dust. Since I do quite a bit of die cutting, I needed a new machine. But I didn't want one that had relatively thin plates that would easily warp, something that seems to plague most die cutting machines. My former one had thick cutting plates & a thick platform, and I had never experienced any warping at all. Someone had suggested the Tangerine in a comment on a card-making YouTube video, as having thicker plates that wouldn't warp. So, I checked it out. It looked like a good-quality machine, and had excellent reviews, so I ordered it. And I have been very happy with my purchase so far! I have not tried running through an embossing folder or embossing with a die yet, so can't speak to the effectiveness of the machine for those purposes at this time. But I see no reason to doubt it would handle those operations just fine. I did keep the instruction manual for reference, mostly with the different sandwiches for die cutting, embossing, etc. My only "complaint," which is a very minor one, is that the only plates available are A4/Letter size. My old machine had a half-size plate/platform combo (about 5-1/2x8-1/2"), which had been an add-on purchase, as I recall, that I could use for smaller die cutting jobs. In fact, I used that more than the larger, approximately letter-size one that I had also purchased. (The larger was useful for large dies or die cutting multiple dies at once.) Using the smaller plate/platform just made the die cutting go faster, since I didn't have to crank through a large plate/platform for one or 2 little dies. It would be wonderful if the Tangerine had a similar option. I would gladly purchase it! But overall, the machine's pressure is excellent, and I like the fact that the "innards" are metal, rather than cheaper plastic. It is heavy, but I take that as a good sign of high quality workings. It cranks easily, too. The rubberized parts on the top, which I understand are to place the plates on as you set things up, are nice, though I honestly rarely use them. But, it's good to know they're there if I need them. The flip-out stabilizer on the bottom is a nice feature, though I'm not sure it makes a ton of difference in the machine's stability. The machine does still "dance" on the table when I'm running the plates through, so I'm considering putting a piece of non-skid shelf liner under it to see if that helps. Not a deal-breaker, though. Overall, it is a sturdy workhorse of a machine, that I highly recommend!

The Tagerine Machine works really well. It is great for larg projects