How To Cut Balsa Wood With Cricut Explore Air 2

Attach a piece of 132-in thick balsa wood onto your Cricut StrongGrip Adhesive Mat.

How to cut balsa wood with cricut explore air 2. Load your project mat onto Cricut Design Space and press Go. 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.

Set the dial on your machine to CUSTOM and change the CUSTOM MATERIAL setting to 331 pressure and somewhere between 4-8 cuts. Hold the tip of the knife at 45 degrees to the wood. Select the Post-It Note custom setting in Cricut Design Space.

The good news is we discovered that the Cricut Explore Air can write on balsa wood without any bleeding. Select your Explore and then scroll to the very bottom and click Add New Material. Tape it on all 4 sides.

To do this click on Custom Materials. Place your material on a stronggrip mat. Apply very light pressure to the knife.

Design your design in Design Space. Basswood Cricut Projects Cutting basswood and balsa wood is a unique ability for the Makerno other Cricut machine can do it. In this video I show you how to cut balsa wood with your Cricut explore series machine.

The Cricut Explore Air didnt completely cut through the balsa wood after a single pass cut. To cut properly you must hold the knife correctly. I have an entire post and video all about using the Cricut Makers Knife Blade to cut wood if youre new to it.