Thickness of Cut for Bar Soap
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I do 1.25"
Mine are also 1.25"
Cutting at 1.125". Been thinking about 1.25".
My 3.5 x 2.5 bar is cut at 1”. Makes a 5oz bar of soap. Been using my new ts mold, which makes a 4.5 oz bar at a 1” cut, so might make those a little thicker.
Mine are 1.25 as well. I like a chunkier bar of soap. 1” to me felt a tad too small. Plus my mods give me exactly 16 bars with no waste other then beveling.
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I have the same dimensions as yours and I cut at 21 mm. I always use inches but my brain just cannot do the math of dividing the length of the mold by number of bars, LOL. I get 11 bars out of my 10" mold with 2 skinny cuts.
KimW
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I do 1" cuts for me, because I have really small hands, and 1.25" for the fam. Or, I'll bevel the 1.25" for me if I forget to cut a couple of skinnys. The fam thinks the 1" bars too small, even though that's the size of the TJ bars they used happily for years - LOL. I've never said a thing, I just cut 'em bigger. Silly.
John Affinito
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I use 1 inch
My 18" mold gives me 14 1.25" bars with two thin sample slices. My bars weigh 5.5-6 oz average pouring to the top or above. My customers and I also like chunky bars and not thin little 1" bars.
I usually go 1", I have small hands.
1.25" here also, I prefer a chunkier bar. Mine are same dimensions as yours and are usually between 5.5-6 oz.
I bought a multiple bar cutter and had it spaced for 1 inch bars. I wish I'd had it spaced for 1.12 or 1.25. I think a slightly larger bar would have been better.
1" My bars weigh an average of 5.6 ounces. I get exactly 30 bars/batch. My testers and customers prefer the thinner bar because half of them don't use a washcloth (I'm working on that) and the bigger bars are unwieldly for them. Also, bigger bars don't fit inside the mesh soap savers I sell.
I agree; I wish the 1-inch thickness for multi-bar cutters was not the norm.
KimW
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Me too! I emailed a vendor of a multicutter a few months ago and he replied very kindly, but was genuinely dumbfounded as to why anyone would want anything besides 1" bars, as well as why anyone would want a multicutter that could be adjusted for different thicknesses. So, now I'ma gonna make my own - I mean there must be a way, right? I made my own sliding cutter, so surely I can do this too (she says - LOL). Wish me the best!
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I do mine at 1.25" too, about the same dimensions as OP's - I think mine are 3.5x2.25x1.25. They make a nice chunk bar. People are really pleased with that size, and most tell me that they will cut it in half so they can rotate their soap stash quicker. I have at times wanted (or been asked for) a 1" cut, but dread asking my hubby to make me a second multibar cutter. Maybe after I close the books on 2020 he'll do it because I can actually pay him for it 
My bars are 5 oz 1" bars, I often wonder if I should make them thicker.
