What is everybodys opion on the best way to cut finger cards

ive been having good luck with tin snips, youd get a better cut with a power tool but theres gonna be alot more dust stirred up so its a tradeoff

When I first started recovering and refining I was snapping off my own gold fingers. I tried many different ways of doing this, like using a table saw, which by the way is not a good way to do fingerboards at all because of the dust and all the toxins it contains, not even with proper ventilation and suction would I recommend this method.

A few other things I attempted were:

Old paper cutters with the big cast iron cutter that has a steel blade, it works but not super well.

Side cutter, same issue as a table saw

Sheet metal break, works but it's hard to get it just right with all the electronic components

Honestly, in all the different ways I tried, the ultimate best was to simply take a 2x4 or 2x6, cut a slot in it with a table saw, across the grain (cut across the grain because if you try to snap off the fingers with the grain of the wood, the wood will eventually break at the grain) You can make several cuts at different depths, far enough apart that you are not going to break the area between, so you have different sizes for different length finger boards. You feed the board into the slot and then snap off the fingerboard part.

I even went so far as to make a contraption that could be sat on to provide weight, then you feed the card into the slot, lean forward using your weight and the fingerboard snaps right off.

You can do hundreds in a relatively short amount of time...

Scott