setting blade depth

[darcshadow 1,641]

The thickness of a buisnes card .020" is about 10 times too much blade. Oracal 651, for example, is only 0.0025" thick. So you only need that much blade sticking out to cut through it. Any more than that and you are cutting into your backing material. Mz Skeeter has posted hundreds, if not thousands of times the correct way to set your blade depth. Follow her guide and you'll be cutting great right away.

[MZ SKEETER 4,727]

This is the correct way to set your blade depth. 

    To start with, you should set your blade depth correctly, by taking the blade holder out of the machine, and firmly cut across a piece of scrap vinyl, you will be cutting. You should only be cutting the vinyl and barely a mark on wax paper backing, Adjust blade to get there, Then put the blade holder back in machine, and use the force of the machine to get there, same results, only cutting the vinyl and barely a mark in wax paper backing. You should just barely see and feel the blade tip out of the blade holder. You should only be cutting with the very tip of the blade. Most vinyl is only 2-3 mil thick. so it only takes the very tip of the blade to cut. 

[Dakotagrafx 7,298]

Not so sure tony read the first post in this thread . . . . thanks for skeeters instructions that have literally helped thousands of people reading it on this forum.

 

[Racer88 24]

On 10/1/2019 at 9:48 AM, MZ SKEETER said:

This is the correct way to set your blade depth. 

    To start with, you should set your blade depth correctly, by taking the blade holder out of the machine, and firmly cut across a piece of scrap vinyl, you will be cutting. You should only be cutting the vinyl and barely a mark on wax paper backing, Adjust blade to get there, Then put the blade holder back in machine, and use the force of the machine to get there, same results, only cutting the vinyl and barely a mark in wax paper backing. You should just barely see and feel the blade tip out of the blade holder. You should only be cutting with the very tip of the blade. Most vinyl is only 2-3 mil thick. so it only takes the very tip of the blade to cut. 

I agree with Mz. Skeeter. I have been setting my blades this way for years and with Clean-Cut blades, I get excellent results for a basic MK 871 cutter. It just takes time and testing to dial it in for each type of vinyl.