so I'm wondering how hard it would be to make my own??? 
Sure you can. The risk is the the sharp edges of cut metal can hurt you. You can use a strip of copper flashing from the hardware store, and using pliers, shape it to fit. You can use a little rivet gun (like a staple gun) or two sided apoxy tape, of just a heavy tape to hold it together.
Oh great - thanks for the info... looks like I'll be heading to Home Depot on the way home from work!
If that fails there is an easier solution.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-20377.html
JoAnn.........I"ve searched high and low for this stuff to make cookie cutters, everyone at my Home Depot thinks I'm nuts!!!! Do you have to cut the copper flashing down??? Or are you able to actually find it in like a 1" width???? I saw the little kits online for making your own cutters and they say they come with copper ribbon......so that's what I've been asking for and you wouldn't believe the looks people are giving me. One guy actually said .........you wanna use it for cookie cutters??? I don't know if that's food safe...copper!!!!.......I said, aren't most cookie cutters made from copper???? He said...oh, yeah I guess but I'm sure it's a different kind !!!!! LOL Anyhow, maybe I need to start asking for the flashing....the only stuff I"ve seen is about 6" in width and it feels too flimsy to be a cookie cutter to me.
I bought a cookie cutter "kit" (where you shape your own), but haven't used it yet.
Instead, when I don't have the rigth shape cutter, I make a template on my own and use it as a guide to cut the dough with a sharp knife. I havppen to have a laminator for my business (not food related), so I laminate them on cardstock and can reuse them - very similar to the process Cake Princess posted about in an earlier thread. She even gave pictures of each step!!
I make templates too........but it would be so much faster to make my own cutters.........the templates work great though, I use the plastic sheets that they sell in craft stores for making your own stencils they work great and they're washable and reuseable!!!
I love my cookie cutters, but there are some shapes that I make templates for because I only need a few, or I need it RIGHT NOW 
LOL! (usually due to lack of planning, but that'd be a whole other thread 
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I have started saving my lids from margarine tubs, crisco cans, and coffee cans to cut and use as templates - free is good!
Laura.
I bought a cookie cutter "kit" (where you shape your own), but haven't used it yet.
Instead, when I don't have the rigth shape cutter, I make a template on my own and use it as a guide to cut the dough with a sharp knife. I havppen to have a laminator for my business (not food related), so I laminate them on cardstock and can reuse them - very similar to the process Cake Princess posted about in an earlier thread. She even gave pictures of each step!!
That is what I did some thirty odd years ago. If you don't have a laminator, you can cover the cardstock or ordinary cardboard, I used to use the cardboard that came in pantyhose, and cover it with clear contact paper, the shelf liner you can use for covering books? It is vinyl and food safe. Then you can wipe them clean and re-use. I used to store these cut outs in photo albums with plastic sleeves to keep them flat.
I think people use the aluminum flashing and tin cutters for making cookie cutters. You can buy aluminum sheeting in different grades and use that with a pair of tin cutters.
Hugs Squirrelly
I actually did this on monday. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, but my sea turtle cutter did turn out pretty good. I couldn't find the copper flashing, but I was able to find some thin metal that I cut into strips with some tinsnips. It's time consuming, but works in a pinch.
I needed a jockey silk cookie cutter for the Derby and I made one using a sheet of aluminum I bought at Lowes. I just cut it into strips and bent it to fit around my paper template and had my brother in law weld it for me. Then just sanded the edges so it wasn't so sharp. Worked pretty good and cost was under $2 for the cookies cutter. Plus I have enough metal leftover to make 7 more.
I have started saving my lids from margarine tubs, crisco cans, and coffee cans to cut and use as templates - free is good!
Laura.
Now that is a great idea! May I call you "Martha" for that tip? 
I'm going to use that one for sure. I'm working on my "C-Game" cookies for the cookie club!
kos
I needed a penis (mortified!!!) cookie cutter and couldn't find one so I bent a lighthouse cutter I had and made it look like one. Some needlenose pliers and a little elbow grease was all it took! Good luck!
check this out!
http://whatscookingamerica.net/PegW/CookieCutters.htm
khalstead!!! Not that all Home Depot employees are dull or anything like that~~~ but I've gone into our local HD and asked for some pretty simple stuff, that I KNOW they have to carry (PAINT, for instance.....and I get this dull, lobotomy-type response!!!!!!! LOLOL!
[email protected]'re crackin me up and I know exactlly what you mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You would think there would be some criteria for placing people in certain departments?? I think they should at least know where all the products are and the uses for them. I understand they may not all understand why we think we can use this stuff for cakes....but if I say I want this that would normally be for a certain use......but instead I want to use it for cakes......they should still know where it is....or if they even carry it in the first place!!!
I looked in the yellow pages (I think metals or machining) and found a metal company that ordered some light-weight (bendable) gauge copper for me. They even cut it into 1/2" strips for me. I found 1/2" to be easier to shape than 1" wide. It cost me $50 for 50 strips.
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