Rope Cutter

I was looking at getting some paracord, maybe only 10 feet or so. Just because I kept needing small amounts of rope when twine simply wouldn't cut it. Well it turns out it's way more cost effective to buy in bulk for paracord. So instead or 10 or 20 feet, I bought 1000 feet in a spool.

So now I had a bulky spool of rope to manage every time I wanted to cut some length. So my solution was to mount it somewhere, and have a cutting tool readily available. The problem was, I lose tools a lot. So I needed a mounted cutting tool. So off to the 3D printer. I designed a small little tool that mounts to my wooden shelves right next to the paracord spool. So now I can just pull a length and cut it real quick.

I thought ahead a little about the blade to use. Since there are two common blades relatively the same side, I designed it to accept both blades in the cutter.

So you just loop it through the hole, loop around the notches (to get tension on the rope) and then a quick wiggle against the blade to cut it. Here's the 3D stl file.