How To Cut Balsa Wood With Cricut Explore

With the Cricut Maker using the Knife Blade you are able to cut Balsa Wood that is one of the following thicknesses.

How to cut balsa wood with cricut explore. For the Explore there is no setting for cutting balsa wood. I walk you through the process of cutting with basswood and balsa wood on the Cricut Maker and Explore to. Expect to see Knife Blade impressions or cuts on the mat.

To do this click on Custom Materials. Balsa is extremely easy to work with but if you dont know how to cut it then you might end up wasting precious material. Some users have also successfully cut balsa wood using the Cricut Explore and the Deep Cut Blade.

Remove any stickers or packaging from the wood. And give it a name so Basswood. Always do test cuts though because balsa wood can vary in its texture and it also can depend on how sharpened your blade is.

It is generally cheaper and easier to find. Ensure the piece of wood is no wider than 11. Slowly run your fingers between the wood and the mat an inch at a time until the entire piece of wood has been removed from the mat.

First make sure you set the dial on the machine to Custom This is a screenshot of the cut screen you can see it was previously set to Cardstock so you will need to change that. Carefully bend the edge of the mat back opposite of the grain. Its another case where youll have to play around with the settings.

Dec 11 2015 - Testing if the Cricut Explore Air can cut and write on balsa wood. We had to jiggle the cut-out a little bit as if we were working with perforated paper. The good news is we discovered that the Cricut Explore Air can write on balsa wood without any bleeding.