Silver Bullet Cutters Forum

I have been very busy with vinyl lately. Here are 4 projects I just completed for our local gcasa office. The biggest 0ne was 100" by 45", my biggest project yet. It was a challenge, but I learned a lot, and it went smoothly. I am really wishing for a bigger cutter now. It would have made this project much simpler. I have a Lynx.

Denise these are beautifulI way to go!

Fantastic Denise!!

Beautiful Denise!!!!! You did a superb job!!!

Oh Denise!!!!! These are GORGEOUS!!!! WONDERFUL job!!!!!

Denise, those are all beautiful. You did an awesome job!

Those are marvelous, Denise! I am so in awe of people who do giant projects.

Wow - Great, Denise!

Wow...those are AWESOME!!

Those look great!! They are all beautiful but I especially like the "faith, hope, love" one.

Fantastic job - they all look great .............

May I ask which type of vinyl you are using ? Do you cut it with or without a mat ?

Thanks
Pandora

I used the mactac 8900. I was chicken to cut without a mat, so I made one. I sandwiched a long piece of heavy paper between 2 layers of peel and stick laminate, then coated the top with a mixture of aleene's tack it over and over and water. It has worked great. Its only 40" long, so I would like to make a longer one.

Wonderful job Denise!!

Your ingenuity is impressive!

dlhill wrote:I used the mactac 8900. I was chicken to cut without a mat, so I made one. I sandwiched a long piece of heavy paper between 2 layers of peel and stick laminate, then coated the top with a mixture of aleene's tack it over and over and water. It has worked great. Its only 40" long, so I would like to make a longer one.

You will find that vinyl on the roll cuts superbly without a mat, if anything it actually cuts better - I get less of the tiny bits lifting when cutting larger detailed vinyl without a mat.

Just make sure to pull enough off the roll to complete the cut, and if possible put the cutter on something so the vinyl can just hang down front and back of the machine - the curved shape of the cutter is designed specifically for this purpose and the curve gives the vinyl more stability as the head cuts left & right.

One thing to watch out for is cutting too close to the end of the roll, I always start the cut about 4 or 5 inches in otherwise it may pick up the loose corner and drag it across with the cutting head.

Using the starts as reg marks is a great idea, I never thought about incorporating reg marks as part of the actual design but I will now

They look fantastic, you did a great job with them, especially considering you used a smaller cutter! I started with a 15" cougar and replaced with a 24" specifically for vinyl work, if I had the space I would go for a 48" but its too much for my one bedroom flat LOL

I have cut without a mat a few times, but ran into issues with the vinyl feeding itself under my Lynx tables lol. I think if I remove the tables when I cut vinyl it would be fine, but I was in too much of a time crunch with this to risk it. I made the mat for contact paper, which I cut a lot of for church. The backing on that is too soft to cut without a mat, it just wrinkles.

yes cutting off the roll is actually better without the tables.

When cutting large vinyl decals the pro's have the cutter on a stand with a large bag/ sling thing under it, the vinyl just hangs out of the front of the cutter and collects in the sling as it cuts.

Do you use signcut? If so turn on step by step and sorting by length in advanced tab - it stops all that feeding in and out

Really beautiful work, love it all. Not sure about the sentiment in the third one though!

LOL.....Leave it to a Guy to complain on the 2nd one!!!! LOL

I gave up trying to change my man about 10 years ago! Wish I had figured it out sooner!