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This was a 2 step process. Weeding and transferring a halftone was daunting, but it turned out to be fairly easy, just time consuming. I used the vinyl as a stencil and then fabric painted the shirt. I've already gotton requests for custom jobs. Do you think $50 is a fair price? Obviously multiple or existing designs would be less.

I noticed Oracal has a 023 Cream color out now. It's more on the yellow side. Right now I'm using the beige because that's what's handy. I have to recut everything else tho, because the color scheme wasn't matching the light pink, which is still very magenta.

Did beige work out for you? Jay, do you know if the Arlon is significantly lighter than other brands' beiges? I'm hoping to find a very pale pink. There are some wall vinyl options, but I don't think the adhesive is sticky enough on them. Any further suggestions? Thanks.

631 is "3 year vinyl" I'm not sure what this means. I have a job doing and entire office with lettering. Will 631 be permanent? Should I use a stronger adhesive vinyl instead. If so, can someone recommend something that comes in a variety of matte colors? Thanks!

Just fonts and clip art, but I had to be extra careful since my client provided the glassware. The blasting cabinet works brilliantly. I picked up the Harbor Freight cheaper one. My next question (I'll search the forum right after this) is how to recycle my media. I tried recycling it directly, but it jams up the air eraser constantly. Hopefully there is a screen or something I can buy.

I went ahead and got the box. I work out of my basement and much prefer the grit being contained rather than getting all over. The only thing I need to learn now, is how to recycle the aluminum oxide. I'm pretty sure the glass bits will jam up the gun unless I have a way to filter them out. Any advice? Thanks.

Does anyone else agree with this? I was keeping it at 65, but the needle dropped to around 40 when I was actually blasting. What pressure do you use?

I just used my Air Eraser for the first time, and I'm looking for a little advice. You can see my project here: http://forum.uscutter.com/index.php?/topic/38707-fired-up-the-air-eraser-for-the-1st-time/ I really like the reverse style on this. The problem is that it took forever. Can someone recommend a blaster that will do a larger area, but not be too big for craft jobs? I have a 100psi 5 gallon compressor, so hopefully something that will work with that as well. Thanks.

I solicited some used florist vases from coworkers to try out my new rig. Just and Air Eraser and small compressor. What a mess, a blasting box is totally a necessity. Here's a short movie showing all sides: https://www.viddy.com/embed/video/361ead57-c707-427c-955c-91f49c212749

Mine is clean so far. The one sticker on it, the ruler strip that came on it, doesn't lay properly. It catches the vinyl as it comes through.

I made some shaped .30 magnets. Scoring the vinyl layer and breaking off the rest worked fine. The thing I'm worried about is blow off if I sell them as car usable. The edges are all rounded merged letter outlines. The magnet ares is only 5.5" x 4", anyone know if that's enough surface to stay put on a car? I don't drive, so I can't test it.

Very cute. Are the striations on the lettering just the vinyl picking up the texture of the wood? I really like how that looks.

Did you have to manually cut out all of the rivet bumps?

I let the plotter lie still all summer, but I finally found a project to kick-start me again. I had a bunch of ideas today. I want to move in to some original designs. If you don't recognize the character, it's Hela from the Thor comics. I hope she's the villian in the next movie. The cutter was pulling up some of the sharp points, and I was wondering if the 12" MH was actually capable of doing fine details. I finally reduced the speed down to 4, and the pressure to 60, and it started cutting beautifully. I learned a lot about weeding doing this one. I'm much better at cutting in break lines and also got a helpful hint to design in your own weed lines. neato. The layering went super smoothly. 6 different colors in all. I put the smallest details on just using as small pieces of transfer paper, so as to not bubble up the vinyl. I like to present my stickers without the transfer tape on. Is there a best way that won't pull the vinyl up off its backing? Also, what is the safest product to remove adhesive left from the transfer paper. Click thumbs to enlarge

Based on your photo, I'd say that your vinyl is slipping, make sure it's staying under the pinch rollers, and make sure they're tight enough for the medium that you're cutting.

My cutter was collecting dust for a few months. Work, School and House have been keeping me away. The necessity for a quick gift inspired this creation. I borrowed the source image from a kids website(still had to give her a little bad girl makeover), so if anyone wants an EPS, let me know and I'll ask them.

I'm experimenting with cutting some decorative paper chains, and I have them laid out in Illustrator CS1. The design has no closed cuts so that it honeycombs out when finished. Is there a way to import such a thing? If I outline the stroke, what's the minimum width I can get away with on sticky board mounted paper without messing up the blade? Failing that, is it possible to draw open cuts in SBE? Still a NOOB, but doing my best!

With my usual ambitious zeal, I decided to go straight from 1 color decals to 4. Ugh. I learned a lot though. The design comes from Concrete Blond's Mexican Moon album. I love the image! Even though I redrew it, I guess it's copyrighted. Just doing this for personal use. 1. I need more light in my basement workspace. I had to keep running from the work table to the dryer, where I could actually see. 2. Start with the top layer and work down, don't skip to the middle. For some reason I started with the red layer and put it on the black before I put the white on it, duh! 3. I had so many problems with the gold detail layer, the thin strips were getting stuck to the blade. I had so many problems trying to weed this, that I finally gave up and applied the gold trim pieces individually. I'm getting the idea that I should round off any pointy parts to keep the blade from doubling back in a single point 360

I have some 3d papercrafts I want to try which require unclosed lines to be cut. Is there a way to import an Illustrator .eps that SBE will cut as unclosed lines? Failing that, can I draw lines in SBE that will be cut without being closed?

Won't let me upload my 640kb file? What it boils down to is I importing a series of "C" shapes using just Illustrator vector line, and when I import into SBE using the scanner (the other option is always blank) It closes them into backward "D" shapes.

I'm sure polyline will work, it just doesn't have the versatility I need. Postscript Scanner is indeed closing all the curves into half-circles. Looks neat, but not what I need. Postscript Interpreter has not worked with any of my Illustrator .eps files. I even did a version where the lines were very thin 2d arched boxes and SBE still closed them. Are there any suggestions on which formats will import better and preserve arcs without closing them into half circles. Which formats will let me use the Interpreter vs. the scanner. Thanks.

This mirror was a gift from the in-laws, perfect size and shape for what I needed, but the roses were a bit to traditional for me, so I punked them up a bit. It took quite a while to trace and scan the existing rose motiff, but once I had that, it was fairly easy to draw the vines and thorns. I've done a few stickers, but decals have turned out better, I need to remember that larger scale things have fewer weeding headaches. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/fatewilleatyou/photo-5.jpg (click for larger)

Great idea. I want to try etching, but I want to practice a bit on smaller things. Should I even bother messing with etching creams, or should I go right for a compressor? I did try to buy etching cream, but it's not available in stores due to local law.

by unclosed I mean that the paper needs to be slit, no paper needs to be removed. I read somewhere early on that all shapes imported from Illustrator need to be closed paths. When I pull my file in it just shows a black circle with none of the the cuts inside visible. I'll give it another try. I'm going to give it another try. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm trying to just use SBE as an output engine for the cutter, but I'll start drawing with it if I have to.

So, I've had my mh365 for a bit over a week and I've just installed my first big(for me) project. I got this idea right away and thought it would be months before I was confidant enough to execute it. I quickly discovered that I wasn't the first person to think of faux wrought iron. The help I got just from searching this board has been invaluable. A huge thank you to all the contributors! The most awesome thing I learned is that this medium is far more forgiving than I expected. I made mistakes at every step and was able to correct every one. My best advice to other noobs is to be careful, but don't be afraid.