Would this work to cut stencils from recycled plastic (water bottles, blister packs, similar thin plastic)? Would I need a different tip or tool?
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I use the tool to melt crayons.... The tool comes with a variety of tips.... Yes I do believe it can melt a plastic bottle.
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Hello Diane, Yes, this tool would be great for the job you described. It even comes with a tile cutting blade. Hope that helps!
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I have not cut wax paper with this cutter, but I have cut laminated plastic/foil bags. I see no reason why it would not work.
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I am not sure that this will do the job you are hoping to do...I have heard of the foam knifes being used to cut stamps, but the ones I have heard of doing so are hot knifes. This cuts foam board well because it has the blade for the paper and the heat for the foam. I think you need more heat than what this will give you.
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No. This will not work for that application. You need to give more information. What kind of cutting boards (Wood, or plastic)? If you need to smooth plastic, then you could use two part resin to accomplish that.
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I cut 1/8" plastic engraving stock with it. It works great if you are careful to use a sturdy straight edge and make 2 or more passes and then snap it.
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If you have a lot of area to cut it is a lot faster. If you are not used to cutting curves this takes the work out of it. If you use the stencil cutter it works best if you have a temperature controller like you would use with a solder iron. If you let the cutter get too hot you can have lots of plastic strings. Medium temperature, medium speed and you will be very pleased.
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This cuts fondant, sugar sheets, gum paste, and supposedly sugar cookie dough (never tried that) directly, mostly to be used as decorations. Its really not meant for making stencils (a regular cricut and some food-safe vinyl/cardboard would work for that). This machine works well for big broad shapes, but not particularly great for fine detail work on fondant and gum paste because of the soft nature of the materials.
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You would use this transfer paper, much like putting carbon paper in a typewriter, to make a copy... or in my case to transfer my drawing on to wood. I'm not really sure how you would go about using a stencil with it. As for finding the stencils, I'd run it through an on line search. Happy trails.
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In my classes we use the stencil cutter for small curved area, in particular. For long straight lines we use an exacto knife and a steel ruler. So the answer is yes.
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Absolutely! That's what I bought it for. Just use your vinyl setting. I cut an entire roll of this out with my Cameo to cover the blades of paper ice skates that I made 25 of my co-workers for Christmas. Cuts beautifully on the Cameo. I think I downloaded a picture of the ice skates I made. Check the reviews to take a look. Everything was cut on my Cameo.
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I would echo the remarks of another commenter that the tool is intended for grasping as you would a "pen", although perhaps with applying much greater concentrated effort if you're inscribing actual characters onto something for identification, particularly metals. And, whether marking plastic or stainless steel, the pressure applied seems to make little discernable difference in the depth of the cut. At any rate, the intended purpose of the tool is to score a distinct, indelible impression upon a hard surface which may not otherwise be reliably marked.
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I would not recommend this tool for the job....not enough power. Blade has a back on it so the angle of the cut would be too shallow. Use a skillsaw or table saw or band saw with infeed/outfeed table or rollers.
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Yes, but use a "hot knife" or a rotary disc, because it is styrene-type hard plastic, and difficult to cut. They also cut to fit, I believe at extra cost, and worth it.
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Hi Debra: I have used this tool to cut out graphics printed on matte photo paper and it does just fine. No worries.
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I'll use wet saw (not bouncing) and good (not bouncing) glass cut blade. It depend glass hardness, but bottle glass is soft and I think that you'll get cheeps up to 1/32". Try to cut slow.
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Certainly it will be useful with shrink tubing! Mine came with four interchangeable tips, one hot knife, torch, one shrink tubing torch (only difference between the latter is length of tip), and tinning tip.