Our troop’s cookies arrive tomorrow. I think they ordered 15,000 boxes and my wife has to go help unload, load, transport and unload again. Usually I help but luckily I am going to be busy in the shop
My tests on the vinyl worked out pretty well and I did some pretty small lettering with tight corners with no issue using the stingray. I should be able to do the larger letters she wants for her car with no issue.
I need to try it on coroplast as well for a potential business connections.
Nice work @CullenS
The exposed knife does matter because typically the tool is dragged along the material while pressing directly up against the material being cut. This is why the tool is spring loaded. The depth of the knife is adjustable for not only the material being cut but also featuring the material being cut.
In current versions of purpose built vinyl cutters they have an “auto knife” feature to their blades. This allows the blade to be exactly indexed for particular materials. So that you can setup the “CAM” operations in their software to cut through just the vinyl or the vinyl and the backing sheet. Creation of design features versus a cutout.
But there is a limit to the amount of adjustment available to the knife length on the stingray. After watching the video I assumed I was supposed of only have enough exposed to cu through the vinyl layer however it wasn’t possible to adjust that much as far as ai could tell. Even if I could then it seems the flat surface of the stingray would be dragging across the vinyl negating the spring. So, I am guessing I just misunderstood.
As I said in the video, the purpose built vinyl cutting machines are amazing. Refined, inexpensive and easy to use.
Where the Stingray excels is obviously price for capability and large format creations. Plus the stenciling aspect.
The Stingray does open new territory for the Shapeoko user. I’m happy to see you finding success with the tool.
