Reddit reviews Silhouette Portrait 2 Electronic Cutting Tool

Yes, it's a stencil cut with a Silhouette Portrait ( http://www.amazon.com/Silhouette-SILHOUETTE-PORTRAIT-Portrait/dp/B009GZUPFA)
And I then bleached the shirt with a brand name chemical called Klorin.
Papa bless

If it's paper, I'd expect it to be made with a cutting plotter or vinyl cutter.

$120 new

Silhouette Portrait https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GZUPFA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_mHIcAbMH8DPCJ ur also gonna need vinyl, transfer paper, a little squeegee, and an exacto knife to get up and going.

I use one of these for all of my stencils.

I made an Iron Man one for my girlfriends sister.

I use a die cutter called the silhouette portrait

I started making new labels for my collection a few weeks ago, and it is a bit of a pain. If you're not interested in spending a lot of time and money getting labels perfect, I recommend going to retrogamecases and paying the $5/label there. If you're still interested, here is my process:


There are no good sources for high quality label scans that I know of, so I generally make them myself in photoshop using a heavily modified version of this template. The same guy has a European style template as well, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy. Fortunately there is a good source for cover art, which is the cover project. Generally you can make a decently accurate label using the cover art here. Sometimes you need to fudge around with photoshop to remove logos or other stuff that is sometimes on the cover.


For printing, I use an inkjet printer with high quality glossy sticker paper that I then laminate and cut with a scrap-booking cutting machine. After it is cut I can remove the adhesive backing along with the back layer of laminate, and it looks very close to a real SNES label. This particular sticker paper is very unforgiving, so make sure your sticker is even before touching the cartridge!

If there is anything you would like more detailed information about, let me know and I would be glad to help.

If you're willing to spend a little time on them print the fronts on 24lbs paper (really cheap at costco) and the backs on 65lbs paper (staples and amazon both have decent prices) then glue them together with spray adhesive. They come out pretty much the exact thickness as regular cards. Your public library should have a paper cutter you can use to get nice clean cuts.

To line them up perfectly place some painters tape on to the Front side of one sheet, hold it up (or tape it) to a window. Now that it's easy to see through, line up the cut lines of the second sheet and fold the tape down to make a hinge. Now go and spray some glue, let it dry, and head down to the library to cut.

If you want to be super fancy buy linen paper (I don't think that's cost effective though) they turn out really nice.

Edit: For super precise cuts, especially if you plan to make a lot, look into buying an electronic paper cutter (small CNC machine). My mom had a Silhouette Portrait, which is cheap-ish and cuts letter sized paper no problem. The price can easily be justified once you take the price of the dollar and shipping cards over time into consideration. You can also have the machine cut rounded corners making the cards easier to handle, or save you from using a corner punch on each card four times.

https://www.silhouetteamerica.com/shop/machines/portrait

Currently $160 CDN on Amazon.ca https://www.amazon.ca/Silhouettes-SILHOUETTE-PORTRAIT-Silhouette-Portrait/dp/B009GZUPFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482340271&sr=8-1&keywords=silhouette+portrait

Just recently they released an upgraded version of their bigger machine, the Cameo, which cuts up to 12" x 12" by default, and you can get a 12" x 24" mat for even bigger projects. It also has two blade slots which can be convenient (it's a nice to have but the cheaper machine will do the job you're looking for).

There is another brand called the Cricut that lots of people use as well that you may want to look into.

Lady, that's a shit-ton of feelings. Be kind to yourself, okay? The only part of that I can process fully is the laminator. Which is awesome. It makes me want to tell you about these bad boys that you could use to cut paper/fabric/vinyl before you laminate it. So you can do cards or 3d things.

Vinyl cutter? Also cuts other material

Here is the mobile version of your link

I have a Silhouette Portrait sticker cutter, but I wasn't able to use it on this mod (my cat chewed the wire in two!) So I just printed the design onto a sheet of vinyl and cut it out with an exacto knife. Not quite as clean as it would have been with the cutter.

Seriously though, you can get a die-cutting machine and a pen accessory to do this. I got one of these and it works pretty well. The software supports cutting/drawing along color-coded lines specified in a vector graphics file.

That's straight up genius.

Do you use the mould to shape the wood before or after the vacuum bagging? And do you laminate just the base layer or the whole ski? I'm super excited to see more progress as you get there.

What's the base material like? Would a vinyl cutter be able to cut it for you? When it comes to ski-shaped things this seems like an easy way to print guides or cut the material itself. Did you think about just taking everything to a workshop and getting them to CNC it for you, plywood, cores, base material and all?

And what do you think of fully composite skis? Seems like an easy way to make them without needing a lot of routing if you had a vinyl cutter that could also handle weaves. You'd have to start with an un-vacuumed layer of composite to give it a rigid strata to bag other layers on, but after that you could go for whatever mix of fibre materials you wanted. All at once if necessary.

[this](Silhouette Portrait https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GZUPFA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_I6Dczb3AV2SDZ) is the one I use. It doesn't quite have the power to cut through pla plate completely but it can do 0.25mm sheets fairly well and is I run it multiple times it can score 0.5mm sheets enough for me to finish cutting it out myself.

Currently $110 on Amazon.

£120