Cricut blades are an essential part of the cutting process in a Cricut machine. They are intended to be sufficiently sharp to cut through any sort of material or picture set in the machine.
After some time, the sharp edges will wear out, turning out to be dull and cutting conflictingly. To be frank, it seems to be pretty unreasonable to change your Cricut blade from time to time. So, today let’s figure it out together how to sharpen Cricut blades, instead of buying a new one.
How to sharpen Cricut Blades?
To sharpen the Cricut blades, use heavy duty aluminum foil step by step as mentioned below:
Check Your Cricut Blades For Dust
Check your Cricut blades for dust or any residue before endeavoring to sharpen them. While it is extraordinary, the residue can accumulate on your cutting edges and cause the sharp edges to cut ineffectively. Eliminate the top to see the cutting edges, (with the help of a magnifying glass if necessary). Search for any filaments that might be appended to the circuit blades. Use compacted air to brush the residue off.
Sharpen The Blades With Your Aluminum Foil
Try sharping your Cricut blades with the help of a thick heavy-duty aluminum foil.
Line Up Your Aluminum Foil
Tear off a thick sheet of your heavy-duty aluminum foil and line it up on your Cricut machine.
Make Slices On Your Aluminum Foil
After tearing off a piece of heavy-duty aluminum paper and placing it on your circuit machine, Make a file on your Cricut to slice three to four straight lines, three to four circles and three to four squares.
Adjust The Speed Of Your Cricut
Then set the Cricut speed to “moderate” and the thickness to “1.” Setting the Cricut to a quicker speed will be less compelling in sharpening your Cricut blades.
Test Out Your Cricut Blade
Test your Cricut blade on a rough paper and, repeat the whole process if the blade isn’t sharp enough yet.
Which Materials Can You Use Your Cricut Blade On?
How many types of Cricut blades are there? There are about seven types of Cricut blades and three other crafting tools that you can use for cutting. These are:
- Fine point blade
- Deep point blade
- Bonded fabric blade
- Rotary blade
- Knife blade
- Wavy blade
- Cricut joy fine point blade
Each of these Cricut blades has different functions. Neglecting to use the correct blade can harm your materials, or even the blade itself. So, you don’t need to stress over this, however, on the grounds that before you will cut a particular task, the Cricut Design Space programming will mention to you what type of blade you can use to cut off a specific material. Let’s dig into the details:
Fine Point Blade
The Fine Point blade is the most well-known blade in the Cricut family, and it accompanies the entirety of the Cricut Machines. It’s made out of German Carbide, which is a very tough and excellent material most generally used for cutting device materials.
This Cricut blade is ideal for making perplexing cuts, and it’s intended to cut medium-weight materials. It used to be silver in color; however, it presently arrives in a wonderful, brilliant golden color. It works with any of the Cricut Explore Family machines and the Cricut Maker.
You can cut many materials with this primary blade such as Printer Paper, Vinyl: Glitter vinyl, printable, outdoor, holographic, Iron-on or also HTV (Heat transfer vinyl), Cardstock, Washi Tape, Parchment Paper, Canvas, Light Chipboard, and Faux Leather (Paper Thin).
Deep Point Blade
In the event that you have to cut thicker materials, the Deep Point blade will be your closest companion. You can also use this blade with all Cricut machines, just like the fine point blade.
The edge of this blade is so a lot more extreme – 60 degrees contrasted with 45 degrees for the fine point blade, which officially permits the blade to enter and cut unpredictable cuts in thick materials.
You can cut Craft Foam, Aluminum Foil, Genuine Leather, Metallic Leather, Magnetic Sheet – 0.6mm and Corrugated Paper with this blade.
Bonded Fabric Blade
There’s a major proviso with this blade. However, the fabric you will cut through with this blade should be attached to a backing material.
In case, if you are a sewer you may get to know what bonded fabric is, but on the off chance that you have no related knowledge with fabric, let me disclose it to you in a really quick way.
“Backing” is a kind of material – like warmth and bond, which you have to follow, bond it to your fabric so you can cut with this bonded blade. Also if you don’t bond your fabric appropriately, you risk destroying and loosening up your materials and you may also end up harming your Cricut mat.
Terrible, isn’t that so?
This bonded blade can be used with all the Cricut machines just like the above two blades. This blade is pink in color and can be used with the Fine Point blade along with a pink fabric mat.
In the event that you don’t have a pink mat, you can also use it with the Standard Green Mat.
Lastly, you can bond all these fabrics with bonded fabric blade: Oil Cloth, Silk, Polyester, Denim, Felt, Burlap and Cotton
Rotary Blade
The Rotary blade is fabulous, and it’s driven by the Adaptive Tool System, which is the reason it’s just viable with the Cricut Maker Machine. The Rotary blade tends to slice through practically any material. What’s more, the best part is that you needn’t bother with any backing material to settle the material on your Cricut mat.
This blade also accompanies the Cricut Maker (this is a serious deal since you ordinarily need to purchase such devices independently or in a pack) and must be utilized with the Fabric Grip Mat.
The most common materials that you can pierce through with this blade are Cotton, Denim, Felt, Fleece, Gauze, Silk, Lycra, Microfiber, Nylon, Chiffon, Canvas, etc.
Knife Blade
This blade is a stand-out, and it’s just viable with the Cricut Maker Machine like the rotary blade. This blade is known to be the thing that makes the Cricut Maker an all-out creation machine.
You can make a lot of fun stuff with this blade such as the wood signs for your home, boxes, amazingly solid cake clinchers and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
The Purple or StrongGrip Mat is the ideal mat that you ought to use with this blade. Some of the time that mat is not even enough for you to keep the materials set up, particularly when you are cutting wood.
You can pierce through the leather, mat board, wood, balsa, heavy chipboard, and a lot more with this knife blade.
Wavy Blade
Rather than cutting on straight lines like the rotary or fine point blade, this apparatus will make wavy consequences for your finished cuts.
Getting curved lines in Design Space is very confounded, so this apparatus will prove to be useful in the event that you like such impacts.
Some of the materials that you can cut with this blade are: Substantial Cardstock, Folded Cardboard, Foil Poster Board, Kraft Board, Metallic Poster Board, Banner Board, Sparkle Cardstock, Cotton Denim, Wool, and, Wool Fusible Fleece.
Cricut Joy Fine Point Blade
The Cricut Joy just has a “Fine Point Blade.” The blade lodging has a white top, and the blade itself is very unique in relation to some other Cricut blades available in the market.
The Cricut Joy Blade isn’t exchangeable, in this way you have to utilize its particular lodging.
Here are some of the materials you can cut with this blade: Brilliant Iron-On and Vinyl (Without a Cricut Mat), Paper, Cardstock, Addition Cards with a Card Mat, Writable Vinyl, Folded Cardboard, Sparkle Cardstock and, Foil Poster Board.
FINAL VERDICT
You can easily sharpen up your Cricut blade with heavy aluminum foil and it actually works. Hope this blog works in the best way for your question “how to sharpen Cricut blades?”.
Happy crafting!
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