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1. 3M Photo Safe spray adhesive.
 For gluing your stereo photos to the stereo card. Be careful, office
supply stores also sell look alike spray adhesives that are not photo safe,
aka 'acid free.'
2. Memory helper card
In the middle of trimming your stereo-halves it's easy to forget whether
the next cut should be 3 1/4 or 3 1/8 inches. I keep a little square of
matte board, labeled with the dimensions of my standard Holmes stereo-half,
right on my workbench.
3. Corner rounding punch
Give a traditional look to your stereographs by rounding the top corners
of your stereo prints. This $8 model, available at craft and office supply
stores, is great for cutting photos but isn't strong enough to round the
corners of a matte board stereocard. But you should shop around -- some
similar models selling for under $10 can cut matte board. Alernatively,
heavy duty models available from specialty suppliers can cut stacks of matte
board -- but tip the scale at $170 or more.
4. A lorgnette viewer
5. An exacto knife.
Some folks do all their trimming and cutting with one of these.
6. A guillotine cutter
A step up from an exacto knife, the guillotine cutter is an affordable
alternative to a matte cutter. This model sells for $20, compared with $130
for a matte cutter. Downsides of the guillotine: ragged edges on matte board
cuts; hard to make cuts adequately square for first class stereographs.
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