My wife just surprised me with a Cricut Explore One for my birthday! I have been purchasing weapons stencils online from different vendors but have not always been able to find exactly what I was looking for. A couple months ago, I cerakoted a couple Yeti tumblers. My wife wanted flamingos on her cup. A high temp flamingo stencil is not readily available, so I figured if I could find suitable decals, they might last long enough to flash cure then I would remove them and finish curing. Well, just plain flamingo decal were hard to find locally at the craft stores. While looking at Michaels or somewhere, I saw the Cricut machine and studied it for a minute. Well, today my wife surprised me with one. Blank high temp adhesive vinyl is readily available so I have a new tool in my project box. Does any one else have one? Any advice?

I think my wife has one & know her mom does. Don't think ours has been out of the case since we got it. Moving hasn't helped.

My wife does but I'm not sure what all it's capable of.

My Mom uses one for her scrapbooks.

You gonna start scrapbooking, Tommydogg?

My wife bought one .
It lasted 5 yrs & died.
She never replaced it.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
My Mom uses one for her scrapbooks.

You gonna start scrapbooking, Tommydogg?

Yup! Going to scrap book some guns!

Made a quick trial run last night to see if this machine would serve my purposes, and it will. I have to order some high heat vinyl before I make a weapon stencil. It is not all that fast, but its quicker than express mail!

I bought one for my wife also, she wanted to join one of those scrapbooking clubs. Anytime she expresses a desire to be social...I encourage it. It never happened. A few years later, I pulled it when my daughter "informed" us about the need for valentine cards for her class. It was too late and treacherous to make the trek to the store, so I pulled out the machine and made a bunch of hearts and other shapes and gave them to her to make her own cards. In the process I discovered the machine was pretty neat. I started using it for cutting out stencils for painting. Now I've got some vinyl for doing our own vinyl graphics. It has finally earned its keep...and has me thinking about a more capable machine.

Here's some of the work I've done with ours:

We buy similar from the neighbor to give as gifts. You put the stencil on a Ozark/Yeti steel can koozie.

Wife an original one and one that works on bluetooth. She uses it all the time for personalized gifts and lately for doing things for JROTC (2nd year for son, daughter just about to start). It is a neat little machine and if you are crafty you can make some money too.

We've had three. We keep upgrading in size. The first we gave to my sister, the other two we still have.

It's basically a CNC cutting machine for light stock (that makes it pretty manly). Great for stencils, custom decorating, and it's gotten a workout doing things for Girl Scouts, like cookie signs, etc. It can handle vinyl, paper, some card stock, even thin brass on some models. I'll probably use it to make stencil for the aged crate project... thinking like a Texaco logo on the end, red star/green tea, plus lettering.

Better list at https://help.cricut.com/help/c...e-materials-settings

AK, Other than the ammo cans, I don't know what the other stuff is, but it looks like you made good use of yours!

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My wife just said she wants one so guess where I check first!

She said cricket. I thought these things were called KRI-Cut

She laughed a little when I asked how many extra doodads it had.

My sister-in-law has one. My wife and her use it just about every day to make stencils for a lot of crafts. It can be quirky at times. Vinyl stock is available in variable thickness and the cutter has trouble with the thicker stuff if there is any kind of detail involved. The program can be irritating to use. Sometimes I think Apple designed the program as it can be challenging to navigate around it.

If the cutter gets gummed up or just not cutting as crisp as it was, take some balled up aluminum foil and poke the cutter into it a bunch of times.

There are a bunch of these machines being used by others. If you have any questions on using it or problems that you can't figure out. Google it. It most likely is on the web of remedies and hacks.

I have one and use it for vinyl...

I etch glass and use vinyl for patterns and outlines.

Anything you find online can be made into a decal.

Use print-and-cut to make stickers for the Grandkids.

I looked at a couple and there seems to be a lot of moving plastic parts. How long do they last?

I skipped the smaller cutter and went to a 24” vinyl cutter fron www.uscutter.com. I have had it for about 7 years and have done tons of things with it. I’ve even made enough with it as a hobbie to pay for it.

Uscutter has an excellent forum that gives tons of advice.
Mike

My wife has one. She makes leather earrings with it.

She had an older one that she used to use for scrapbooking.

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Originally posted by Sig Sauer Kraut:
My wife has one. She makes leather earrings with it.

She had an older one that she used to use for scrapbooking.

Interesting. What is the maximum thickness of leather that it will cut?

Thing sounds like a loud can opener