Tip Jar - Selecting a Blade for your Vinyl Cutter

Where are you Josh Ellsworth!?!? It's 2016 and my Brother and I are starting-up with 2, 'lower-end inexpensive' (MH & SC) not mentioning any names of course. We are going to make t-shirts and decals, but getting off the ground is proving challenging to say the least! I am the technically adept, my Brother has the creativity and vision! I am the Marine who won't let anything get in the way of completing a mission! My Brother an almost-pro Skateboarder & Snowboarder has contact with those two big demo's and seasons' of people! We are ready to cut the Vinyl, but I'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon wondering why SirDoesn'tCutsAlot isn't taking a simple, short sentence of text and turning it into cut vinyl ready to be weeded!? Please help us Josh E. !!!

i am also a beginner,.  i have a ASC365 cutter, and the sellers where oriental and their english was not good. SO i had a hard time asking questions with setting it up, he showed me visually, but when i got home, i realized i didnt have an understanding of why he was doing what he did, now that i am setting it up, i can see where i have questions on what is appropriate in doing so.
this video showed the correct depth of the blade, so that is good. But he didnt show if the blade should be 90degree in its holder or 45 or what ever to get a good cut, after seeing this video  that he explains there are different blades, now to find the appropriate blade for my designs.  Where can we see a video with blades doing different types of cuts/shapes and explaining the blade used for such.

thank you
shawn michael

I've been losing my mind trying to get good cuts of detailed art on Rubylith film. In this case, the art is a printed circuit board pattern, for exposing photo-resist. It's always either cutting too deep and scoring the Rubylith's backing substrate, not cutting deep enough, or having trouble with the fine detail... (If not some combination) I think I've tried both 45 and 60 deg blades, so I was considering giving 30 a go since Rubylith is super-thin. But it sounds like I'd lose out on detail..

amazing information. Thank you so much for this. I am a beginner and will do my best to do things right. As a graphic designer for over 15 years doing vectors all i need now is to cut them nicely ;) GREAT VIDEO, RECOMMENDED FOR EVERYONE LEARNING THIS VINYL CUTTING TECHNIQUES :))))

Unreal! I have struggled forever... do it once like you said... perfect!! Thanks sooooo much!

A cutter similar to the one demonstrated in the video can cut most roll good materials be it heat transfer vinyl, sign vinyl, window vinyl, or sticker material. You'll just need to adjust the blade depth and downforce according to the material loaded.

One question I have. Can vinyl cutters do heat transfer and sticker too?

Thank you

Glad the video was able to help, and hopefully you are on the track to growing your business with your cutter and heat applied vinyl.

Awesome thanks great info ...when i got my Uscutter SC series in the PDF i got with it shows this also how to set your blade up .. so i am happy i did it right the first time .. just the offset stuff stumped me lol thanks awesome guy

"thanks for the tip" i see what you did there

Holy Cow! I was way too far out on the blade. Thanks for the tip.

Ni5ei I do not know anything about the science of the blade technicalities, but the blade supplier should state what off-set the blade they supplied should be set up with. Do not adjust the off-set of the blade to suit different material, you will need to change the blade to suit different material and set up that blades off-set into your machine. Hope this helps

I meant "diameter" of course...

Josh, can you explain a bit more about offset please? Ross from Clean Cut Blade told me that as long as the dimater of the blade stays the same, the offset is also the same. Offset = distance from center of the blade to the tip of the blade which equals half the diameter of your blade thickness. That distance stays the same whichever angle you're using. It's only when you start cutting thicker materials that the offset is changing.

Hello, great video and information. I wanted to know, if a Roland cutter could cut other materials other than vynil? (paper, cardstock, transfer paper, generally paper media) I have a Roland Stika SX15, very old school...