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After a 2 month build on a custom 4 ft X 4 ft CNC machine, half the time was waiting on parts. It is up and running. First cut was shop space numbers. Made from Norwegian Birch. And then on to the good stuff. Masked and Painted then cut. mark-s

Yes, once I changed the holder it was easier to set the proper depth and the test on the scrap vinyl worked fine. Thanks.

Now that you got that problem solved with the correct blade holder,. I SURE hope you fixed that blade depth. on your going to be having a lot more problems.

The machine was built from scratch, everything was over built to with stand anything. There is a 3/4 inch steel plate used as a strong back (can`t be seen in photos) for the motor Z axis. Instead of 1/2 inch sides had a friend cut out on his CNC 3/4 inch aluminum, all motors are the best and strongest that could be found. My friend also turned some parts on his metal lathe so we could get extra beefer patrs. This thing is bullet proof. mark-s

And even if you do, it will not come out right...Just recreate it. Too easy. You should not vector Fonts. Find the font and recreate. It's only a football with a number. Just make a football and duplicate them,

This is the prototype we used just made everything bigger and stronger. mark-s

For those googling this problem, the issue was that I had the blade in the pen carriage, so that's why it was sitting so high. Digging through the box I found the proper carriage and now the blade is at the right height and it cuts properly on both ends.

The Xbox controller is how I move the motor forwards, backwards, up, down and zero to the start of the cut. mark-s

personally I would try lowering the slider for level of detail to maintain . . . but as stated above it is a simple design and would be much better to recreate it as a vector to begin with for a crisp clean image

Like everyone says 10 times too much blade but something else is wrong so best to get with support to fix or replace while new

You definitely have something wacko and hopefully can get squared away. Once you are fixed up adjust your blade depth. Like mentioned in an early answer your blade exposure is hurting my eyes. I realize to new people it seems like it shouldn't make a difference but it ABSOLUTELY DOES. Follow Skeeters directions and you can avoid a lot of future frustration due to improper blade depth.

Yes the .mov show them off and on. Only the most famous rolls of tape get a photo shoot like that.

I bought a 50w Chinese laser after doing much research. Having the height adjustment, bigger working area, better controller and just in general more features made me feel a lot better about it. I've added some upgrades that generally everyone recommends anyway and it's done well. I'm happy with it so far and will have some more mods going on to keep it going. Have yet to make a sale off it but I bought it with the intention to learn about it and sell later as it becomes more natural. Same process I followed with getting into vinyl and HTV.

I done a reset several times, also delete plotter and reinstalled from PC. The 009,006 say motherboard The 001,002 HP-GL codes ( I really don't understand what they mean)