![]() I haven’t yet tried my knife blade again on another material, but I think it survived this endeavor. The groans coming from my machine suggested that it wouldn’t like that. But I’m afraid to try a cut with any more pressure. I might test it out on this damaged one and do something with my other Dynaflex record. I haven’t tried the engraving tool on an LP yet. HOWEVER, using “cut” with the knife blade might work if you wanted to deeply etch at pattern into an LP vs. ![]() ![]() And I tried a sharp x-acto knife to try to cut through on the cuts, but didn’t make much progress and it would have been too labor-intensive to cut through the entire thing. I tried to see if I could break apart the design, but this ony succeeded in breaking the record. So, what I ended up with was a record with a deeply etched daisy pattern - but no cut-through. And around 18 passes, the machine was starting to emit some sounds which worried me a bit. The machine seemed to be cutting the material, but after 24 passes, still hadn’t cut through the record. I used the strong grip mat - I find that the off-brand ones you can find in three-packs on Amazon work as well as the official Cricut ones. I was worried about upping the pressure too much here. So I found a couple of inexpensive ones on eBay (didn’t matter what it was, I’d be changing the label anyway) and went to work.Ĭricut Design Space doesn’t allow you to configure a new custom material using the knife blade, so I chose to go with heavy chipboard as it had the most passes and quite a bit of pressure. RCA used to make a series of records called “Dyna Flex” these are (as you would expect) more flexible than a standard vinyl record. The Cricut Maker offers more pressure than the other Cricut machines, but can generally cut materials no thicker than 2.5mm.īut I decided to go ahead, risk my knife blade, and try cutting one. While I’m sure it would cut the thin little 45-sized records you used to be able to find on the back of a cereal box (I’m showing my age here), I wasn’t sure it would cut anything more substantial. I’m a recent owner of a Cricut Maker - and, for the most part, this machine has been more fun than I imagined - it will do many things. And wanted to dress-up the area with some wall art involving daisies made out of old records. My daughter gave me a small record player last Christmas, and I’ve been longing to listen to some vinyl lately.
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