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Exploring Drag Knife Mods for a CNC to Vinyl Cutter

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Exploring Drag Knife Mods for a CNC to Vinyl Cutter

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We are interested in making a Vinyl Cutter out of our friendly neighborhood ShopBot CNC.

Here are the kinds of things a vinyle cutter can do:
https://makezine.com/2015/12/15/34-things-didnt-realize-can-vinyl-cutter/

This talk is all about turning our CNC, which is normally a rotary bit meant for cutting wood, into a vinyl cutter by exploring what custom attachments we can add the our CNC to hold a drag knife.

Hopefully we can get a solution that we can manufacture on the cheap in our makerspace!

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