icemanart

Thanks all for your input. I really am looking for someone who cuts their own stencils for airbrush and/or stencils for AB tattoos. I know it can be done with a lazer and have heard of people doing it with vinyl cutters. From this eorum and other areas, I have found that the material of up to 40mil can be cut with my cutter. The main material i use is 7 or 10mil stencil material. I really need the dn pressure setting of someone who has achieved this and what they used for a substrate. I am trying the ap tape today and will post how that goes, also got my 60 degree blades fri and will try with those too. I will also try spray adhesive with a backing of overhead projector mylar. Than ks again for all your input and keep it comming. Sincerely, iceman

This is a re-post from another forum area, but is a question I need an answer to and there were none posted. I have some 7mil Mylar without adhesive that I purchased from which I'm planning on cutting freehand paint masks. I have a couple questions I'm hoping some of you with experience along these lines might answer for me. First of all, would applying application tape to the bottom of the Mylar be suitable for holding things together during the cutting process? I'd like to put a base on the Mylar not only to hold any islands in place during the cutting process until I'm ready to weed, and for keeping the cutter away from the cutting strip as well... may as well protect it if I can. Next, I've been cutting with the standard 45 degree knife that came with my Pcut and it has performed really well with sign vinyl, but I do alot of airbrush work and bought this machine to cut both vinyl and stencils. Would it be appropriate to use that same knife for cutting the Mylar (which is over twice as thick and considerably denser) or should I be thinking about using some 60 degree blades specifically for this material? Finally, will I have to slow down the cutting speed and increase the downforce substantially, or will I be doing one or the other but not both... as a newbie I kind of understand that the two are related, but I've not seen any guidelines out there to make getting the settings right and less of a hit-or-miss proposition. Any help any of you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Iceman