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Tennis balls can be used for more that merely playing games. When they're cut open up, you can slide them onto furniture legs or walkers to protect your floors and move them around easier. If you cutting a tennis ball in half, y'all tin can use the halves equally massagers to help alleviate foot and back pain.[1] Cut a tennis brawl is an easy procedure as long every bit you lot're careful non to cutting yourself!

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    Hold the lawn tennis ball firmly against a solid surface. Set the lawn tennis ball on a surface that'south knife-safe, such as a cutting lath. Grip the tennis ball in your not-dominant hand so the rounded edge of the seam faces up. Utilize your ring finger and pinky to support the dorsum of the ball and then it doesn't roll away.[2]

    • If yous don't feel comfy holding the ball while you cut information technology, secure the brawl in a vise grip.

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    Poke the blade of a utility knife through the middle of the ball. Hold the pocketknife with your ascendant paw so your index finger is forth the tiptop edge and pointing toward the blade. Carefully poke the finish of your knife in betwixt the seams until it breaks into the middle of the brawl.[3]

    • Make sure the blade isn't pointed toward your fingers or you could accidentally cutting yourself if the knife slips.
    • You may as well employ a craft knife, only information technology may not exist as strong every bit a utility knife.

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    Cut a one i⁄2  in (iii.8 cm) slit in the brawl. Move your blade up and down to saw through the ball's rubber. Make a straight horizontal cut parallel to the seams that's most 1 1⁄2  in (3.8 cm) long. When you're finished with the cutting, pull your knife out of the ball.[four]

    • Don't make your slit any longer or else it could hands fall off of furniture legs.

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    Rotate the ball past 90 degrees and brand another slit. Plough the ball so the slit you cut is vertical when you wait at it. Press the tip of the pocketknife 3⁄4  in (1.ix cm) to the left of the commencement slit near its midpoint. Make a horizontal cutting that crosses the kickoff slit and so it forms an X-shape. Once your second slit is i 1⁄2  in (3.8 cm) long, accept your knife out.[5]

    Tip: If yous find it hard to make ane continuous cut, start your knife in the center of the first slit and make a 3⁄4  in (1.9 cm) perpendicular cut. So, rotate the brawl 180 degrees and brand some other 3⁄four  in (one.9 cm) cutting that lines up with the other.

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    Leave the brawl well-nigh a window or well-ventilated area for 1 24-hour interval to dry out any wet. Sometimes, lawn tennis balls accept a small corporeality of wet inside them that could harm furniture legs. Fix the brawl on a windowsill so the cut faces down. Allow the brawl dry out for near 1 day before putting it on anything.[vi]

    • In one case the brawl doesn't have an odor, information technology'due south ready to utilize.

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    Trace a line around the circumference of the brawl. Agree the ball steady on your work surface with your non-dominant hand. Draw a straight line in the direction you want to cut on summit of the brawl with a pen. Rotate the brawl when you demand to keep your line around its surface. Make sure the ends of your line meet so yous know it'southward straight.

    • If a pen doesn't work on your tennis brawl, use a mark. The mark line will be noticeable when you lot finish your cutting.

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    Hold the brawl from above against a hard surface. Gear up the ball on a cutting board or some other surface where you tin can easily use a pocketknife. Hold the ball with your not-ascendant paw so all of your fingers are gripping it. Go along 3 fingers on the forepart of the brawl, and support the dorsum side with your pinky and thumb. Make sure your cutting line is betwixt your front and dorsum fingers.[seven]

    • Imagine your hand is a claw so you're only grabbing the ball with the ends of your fingers.

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    Beginning your cutting with a serrated pocketknife. Feed the blade of your knife underneath your hand so it's betwixt your front and back fingers. Use house pressure as you saw back and forth along the cut line. Go along cutting until yous're halfway through the ball before removing your pocketknife.[viii]

    • Stay circumspect while you lot make your cut and so you don't accidentally hurt yourself.

    Warning: This cut will boring your knives if you programme on cut multiple lawn tennis balls.

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    Rotate the ball to end making your cut. Turn the brawl by 90 degrees along the line you lot drew and hold it firmly again. Stick the bract of your pocketknife into the cut you started and continue working along the line you drew. Keep rotating the ball past 90 degrees and cutting until it's halved.[ix]

    • Turning the brawl makes information technology easier to cut and helps ensure you lot're halves are the same size.

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    Finished.

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  • Never cutting toward your fingers or else you may hurt yourself.

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Things You'll Need

  • Cutting board
  • Utility knife
  • Pen
  • Cutting lath
  • Serrated pocketknife

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