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Mike, that would be awesome!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!! And yes us girls are known to be quite vocal

I have 2 girls but SEVEN!!!!!! I hope you have a man cave when they are all hormonal and moody I will admit girls come with drama, just how we tick. Lol. Thank you for the info!!

Thank you for the help. My cutter came with "sure cuts a lot pro 3 software" and I watching quite a few great videos about that on you tube. Do you have a brand preference far as vinyl goes? Not sure what cast is but will check it out. Thanks again

I want to share a really cool story about my business and maybe it is meant to be for someone who happens to read. Months after I started my business I had a technician come out to do a maintenance on my two commercial machines. While he was here he was telling me he just left a job where a lady who only had one machine was going to be out of service for FIVE WEEKS due to a part that had to be special ordered. I knew nothing about her but I asked him to give her my number to see if she would like to utilize one of my machines when I wasn't using it. Well, she called and offered to pay for the use of machine time and I declined any money. The outcome was amazing. She lived alone and only family was a son in Chicago and recently lost her husband to suicide. Little did she know my dad had just hung himself. Just by me offering a kind gesture I have become a great friend and source of strength to her and she has to me as well. Her machine eventually got running again and to this day we meet weekly for lunch or dinner. What's really cool is she still to this day comes over sometimes with her own orders and we each work on our own customer since I have 2 machines and just to enjoy working around each other. She ended up having 12 years of experience in the industry and has been instrumental in my success and all I did was reach out to someone who needed a hand up it a HAND OUT!!

The point of a business website is for people to go it. My gallery is show my quality of work. Other people's work have definitely contributed to some of my best ideas. I retired a year and a half ago from the fire department as a firefighter for 24 years due to a very bad injury. I guess helping and fixing problems is just in my make up. I don't concentrate on my "competitors" I just focus on the quality of my work and happy customers. The majority of all my business is referral based. But, if anyone comes across this and is new to or considering embroidery I would love to share all that I have learned that has made me successful and keep you from making many of my mistakes and losing money when I started.

Well actually myself and 2 other embroidery business both less than 10 miles apart all share with each other and back each other up. Not everyone is out to screw someone over. Heard a great quote and I strive to live by it "The way to be successful is to help others succeed" I hope my work does inspire other to create and design. Guess I just see things very differently. Hopefully I can come across others in my area who share the same views.

I will continue to search the forum. I think we've gotten off track from what I was asking by my post. I'm looking for fellow cutter folks in my area who would be willing to get together.

Sue as far as how I thought I would get experience, I thought the machine would have come with a lot more for learning. I knew there would be a learning curve and I have been reading and watching endless videos. Yes I learned how to embroider but it came with a very costly learning curve. I'm trying to avoid that with this.

It's my business contact number. I do have the the blade set correctly or at least I think I do. It's trying to understand why on the dos and donts and take in any expert help I can get. I gain so much from group,or hand on style training so I thought just maybe I could find some folks in my area.

I had an opportunity to train 2 people with my same single head, 15 needle embroidery machines as mine and without a doubt has made a huge impact on their business. Would love to find that person in the cutter industry. I will admit my personality is very black and white Making me a perfectionist. I want anything that has my name attached to it to be exceptional in quality. Check out my website, it's kinda speaks for itself. Jakesandjills.com

I'm struggling to understand the common terminology in the industry. Example, I literally can not find what my appropriate speed and whatever my down force should be. I have 2 commercial embroidery machines and the learning curve on that was quite expensive and I really want to avoid that and get a good solid start from experience people who can even help me avoid the common mistakes that I haven't even come across yet.

I would be extremely helpful even if I could talk with some experienced folk. Would really like to hear from you if you have some spare time 678-300-8380

I'm new and in Georgia and I'm wondering if their are group classes or get togethers for learning. I have read sooooooo much material and watched endless videos. I swear it makes me wonder will I ever get it

Thank you so,much for responding!! Been a LONG DAY and I finally had to walk away. i wish I could find some classes or spend some time with an experienced person. Webinars for projects start to finish would be great too. The learning curve is going to be greater than I thought as far as terminology, vector or if a file is cutable etc. I have ZERO EXPERIENCE with illustrator or such programs which seems as though that's how I make a JPEG a vector.

I bought my list cutter and I am brand new to the industry. I purchased the 28" Titan. I have it put together but I literally cannot find one single tutorial for this cutter. Everything on the uscutter site is not my cutter. I am completely lost and need help. I cannot find anything on whether to start from the right to left or vise versa. Absolutely no information on down force, zero out, cutting etc. I have searched you tube and google and have found NOTHING for this cutter. Please help before I scream!!! Thank you, Kim