How do you clean your cutting mat

[CY343491]

Hi,
Sometimes my cutting mat messes with sticky things like masking tapes, pigments or glues or it just gets dirty by time. When i try to clean them with any thinner it all removes the grid pattern off the mat, is it about my mat's quality or a normal thing? So how do you clean your cutting mats?

 

[Belugawrx]

I don't...well, sometimes I spill a jar of lacquer thinner on it....there are some globs of glue which I scrape off with an Exacto chisel blade...but it's there to protect my desk top ...so..I mostly leave it alone.

 

[CY343491]

I don't...well, sometimes I spill a jar of lacquer thinner on it....there are some globs of glue which I scrape off with an Exacto chisel blade...but it's there to protect my desk top ...so..I mostly leave it alone.

Do lacquer thinner remove patterns on your mat?

 

[Jim62]

If it's Fiskars yes some chemicals will take off the print. Don't remember what did it to mine but I wasn't using lacquer thinners at the time. I just use one side for cutting tape and turn it over if I'm using any paint, thinners, or glue over it.

 

[the Baron]

I've used SuperClean to wipe old paint off the mat. I have used lacquer thinner to dab at other gunk stuck on it. But generally, I haven't really cleaned it. I like the look of a weathered cutting mat

 

[Belugawrx]

Yep

 

[Jim62]

I've used SuperClean to wipe old paint off the mat. I have used lacquer thinner to dab at other gunk stuck on it. But generally, I haven't really cleaned it. I like the look of a weathered cutting mat

Just look at all the memories forever captured on that cutting mat. That one is a keeper.