When Sheila contacted me we started making small talk and chatting about the weather. I told her that we expected a rainy week, but that the change was nice from the hot days of summer. I asked how her weather was and she said that they were experiencing a lot of humidity in her area on the shore and that the weather change was very unexpected because they just recently moved from Denver. This instantly got me thinking about how humidity can have a factor in the paper and the settings that you’ll use. I told her that it sounded like she may need to adjust her pressure and blade length to make up for the humidity that was in the air. We increased her blade length and moved the pressure up to 18 and she said it was cutting like a dream. Sheila, like me, was used to using the same kind of pressure consistently. However changing temperatures and humidity can play huge role in your blade and pressure settings. I was lucky enough to do a show in Nashville a few years back with Klo and was shocked to see the stack of paper we were using start to curl. I looked at Klo and she started to laugh and say “You’re lucky your climate is so dry in Idaho, you don’t have to deal with curling paper.” I also noticed the settings I was using were very high in Nashville in comparison to the settings that I would use in Idaho. I thought this was a great question to address with the seasons changing and some of the discrepancies that you might experience with settings that may have previously worked, but aren’t giving you the same results as they previously had.
