![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t we all? Again, you want the blade only slightly deeper than your paper – you don’t want it cutting way into your mat. The settings recommended by your machine are for their brand of paper only, and of course, you want to use a variety of papers. Adjusting the blade to cut paper is much trickier. Take a minute and watch this video: ADJUSTING THE BLADE FOR VINYL CUTTINGĬutting Paper: Lately, it seems a lot of people are trying to cut paper. Other adjustments are made in the pressure setting (thickness on the Silhouette) It should be sticking out just less than the thickness of a credit card. ![]() Most people have their blade out too far. Any other adjustments should be made with the pressure or the “thickness”. This is a lot less than you might think it is. Too far and it will cut the mat, not far enough and it won’t cut through. The blade should be extending no further than very slightly more than the thickness of your material. THE BLADE: Blade adjustment comes first, whether cutting vinyl or paper. That’s a professional Graphtec blade and to use it you need to understand what the blade is supposed to do. You may have purchased a CB09 blade for the Silhouette. With a click blade, the higher the number, the more the blade sticks out. Hobby machines all come with click-type adjustable blades (if you have an old Silhouette or Wishblade, it came with colored caps to adjust the blade. By calling pressure “thickness” they confuse a lot of people, because thickness of the material you are cutting actually relates more to blade depth. While working with paper, it was necessary to develop an understanding of blade depth and pressure (called thickness by Silhouette). I think that’s because I started and worked with paper for many years. I have a much easier time with vinyl than many people I see posting in Facebook groups. It’s not their fault, the machine companies push the idea that all you have to do is to press a button. A lot of people have ventured into the world of cutting machines with very little understanding of what they are doing. ![]()
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