Cutting roll of paper on table saw or miter saw??? Good or bad idea?

[LCHIEN]

I need some 22" wide art paper for an easel.
It comes in 24 or 17.5" rolls, nothing in between.

I was thinking about buying the 24" roll and cutting 2" off on a power saw. Either the table saw or the miter saw.
I actually cut some rolls of plastic shelf liner to the required width for the kitchen. It worked but the rolls were smaller, under 2" diameter and the plastic melted where it was cut and left a mess on the table saw blade. But it did cut quite well and left a clean edge, I eventually cleaned the saw blade with simple green and a stiff brush.

One thing I am worried about is the roll of paper wanting to spin as the blade bites into it. That would be a mess! Especially if it spun the wrong way and sprayed a stream of paper? Might be a 3" diameter rolls of paper with a cardboard core.

I've cut dowels and PVC pipe on wood saws before.

But paper and cardboard is just wood, right? Not sure if you could clamp it successfully being round. Maybe a semicircular cradle like clamp would work.
What could go wrong?

[mpc]

I did something similar a while back but I used a bandsaw with a fine-toothed metal cutting blade to cut cheapie roll-up window blinds from the Borg - just thin white stuff around a cardboard core/tube. Worked fine. I have the Rikon 10-325 bandsaw with the Striatech motor upgrade that lets me dial the blade speeds to pretty much anything from 50 fpm to around 4000 fpm; I used a slow speed. And I used my V-groove sled (a 2x4 with a v-notch cut in it) to hold the rolled-up blind and the miter gauge to guide it.

I suspect an old-style plywood blade on the table saw would work well too. Those old plywood blades had lots of itty-bitty metal teeth, not carbide, so they cut a narrow kerf.

mpc

[LCHIEN]

Oh, I remember I once tried to cut a round item on my fixed speed bandsaw, that's where I got the fear of cutting round stuff.

it really grabbed that with all the teeth and started it rolling and got very out of hand!

[twistsol]

I have cut rolls of rosin paper on my miter saw and didn't have any issues. I had a 6' wide roll that I cut in half so my wife could use it to cover banquet tables for a ladies' craft night.

[LCHIEN]

Come to think of it, I also cut some 6-foot rolls in half once so my daughter could use them for a birthday party table covers.