Go slowly, and it cuts very smoothly. Pay close attention to the corners of your letters, they tend to "stick" no matter what device you use. This thing works great, looking forward to using it on all my stencil projects! Nice company to work with. I like this product. I wish it was more of a knife but I got the hang of it eventually. Checkmark icon Added to your cart:. Cart subtotal. Angle the blade down so that the handle of the blade is no longer perpendicular to the work surface.
This angle should be close to 45 degrees to the work surface. Draw the blade to the right and toward you along that approximately 45 degree angle. Try not to draw directly toward you. If you slip, you can hurt yourself. Do not draw the blade away from you. You will not have the power and control in that direction. That 45 degree angle gives you some of the power and control of pulling toward you plus the safety of not hurting yourself.
Draw the blade toward next corner while pushing firmly down into the material. Stop when you get to the corner but do not lift the blade out of the transparency file. Angle it back up to nearly perpendicular to the work surface. The tip of the blade will be like a pin in the material. Rotate the design so that the next cutting motion will be in the same direction.
You want to always be cutting a little toward you and a little away from you. Repeat the cutting going from one corner to the next until you end up where you started. You have now cut a square out of transparency film. Lift the square out of the film. Cut the rest of the shapes on Page 2 of the practice sheets. Print more sheets if you want more practice or draw your own shapes!
Sometimes when I cut straight lines, I use a metal ruler as a guide. Cutting on a curve is a little different. The way you hold the knife is the same. What is different is that your motion as you cut is an arc instead of a straight line. And, this is what takes some practice, depending on how much the curved line curves, you can move the stencil as you cut. I utilize rotation from my fingers, from my wrist, from my elbow and from my shoulder depending on the size of the curve.
I also rotate the stencil film counter-clockwise with my left hand while cutting clockwise with my right hand. Cutting your own stencils takes practice to get good at it. If you need to, practice on paper first to get used to this type of cutting and learn to keep your blade smoothly on the line.
Work up to it too. If you overdo the cutting, you can strain your hand — from personal experience. The very best piece of advice I have for stencil cutting is Practice, Practice, Practice. The more you practice, the better you will get. Continue to use my practice sheets until you feel comfortable cutting sheets 2 and 3. Then move on to the more complex shapes on pages 4 and the smaller shapes on page 5. When you are cutting your stencils, start with the smallest elements first and work up to the biggest elements.
Cutting the big elements reduces the structural integrity of the stencil film to a much greater degree than the smaller elements. You want to maintain as much of the strength of the film for as long as possible.
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