How To Cut Balsa Wood With Cricut Explore

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How to cut balsa wood with cricut explore. Balsa is extremely easy to work with but if you dont know how to cut it then you might end up wasting precious material. We used the black fine-point pen from the Cricut Explore. With the Cricut Maker using the Knife Blade you are able to cut Balsa Wood that is one of the following thicknesses.

This is balsa wood and is known as one of the lightest and the most efficient wood to use for making toys and other light wooden products. Its something that has changed my entire outlook on DIY decor. Make multiple passes with the craft knife as needed.

Balsa wood will generally break a little easier than Basswood. Some users have also successfully cut balsa wood using the Cricut Explore and the Deep Cut Blade. Cricut Wood and Chipboard Projects.

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. To do this click on Custom Materials. Its another case where youll have to play around with the settings.

Try the a custom setting using the Deep Cut Blade a pressure of 220 and multi-cut of 4x then adjust from there. Im so excited to show you what Ive learned about cutting non-traditional materials with my new Cricut Explore Air. 250 pressure 5x cut start yours a little lower on the test area and then go up to 5x if you need to.

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 remove the tape. The Cricut Explore Air didnt completely cut through the balsa wood after a single pass cut.