Thank you so much for all your Silhouette videos, Mags! I'm entertaining the idea of getting a Curio to cut polymer clay. I make miniatures of tile patterns and I was wondering, would the Curio be able to cut super small pieces, like 1/16 inch pieces?
I'm glad to be of help. 1/16 inch might be a bit too small to get a good cut. But if you are doing tile miniatures you might be able to cut a bigger square and engrave/score the lines for the tiles. Anything that is less than a 1/4" tends to get pulled up by the blade and messed up and/or messing up the other cuts.
@@MagsBCreations Thank you for your super quick reply! That's what i was afraid of and it totally makes sense. Thank you also for the tips! Just joined your facebook group as well :)
I wish you had more videos using the silver bullet because i bought a 24" silver bullet with all the tools but have really just used it for vinyl because there are no videos anywhere that i can find on how to set it up to etch, engrave etc ...None that go into much detail at all....So its a bit sad that i spent so much on this and cant learn how to use it :( if i were to of bought a sillouette or a cricket then there are tons of videos i could learn from . Would you have any suggestions where i might be able to learn to do the engraving and etching etc? I tried the learning center but people just mostly talk on there and I need learning videos so bad.
Hi Tammy! I started teaching how to cut polymer clay on the Silhouette machines soon after I got my SB and really haven't delved much into all the other things that it can do. You are right, there aren't a lot of videos online. I only use it now on a few of my items. And got a Glowforge laser LY which engraves materials that would be harder to do on the SB, so not much incentive for me to get deeper into the SB. I can help you with the polymer clay settings. But for the other materials I am at as much of a loss as you are.
@@MagsBCreations how kind of you to take the time to reply. I certainly have been excited to try with clay as well...I have plenty of premo to play with...I sa on one video where to take the clay sheets that are ready to cut like you do BUT bake them for just a little bit before cutting them...This makes sense and I was going to try that possibly today. Have you tried that? Also I am going to check out the Glowforge laser right now as well...Do you really like it?
@@tahomyjo I did some testing on cutting baked clay and it is doable. It just depends on the project. The items I make using the SB need to be pliable so I cut raw clay the most. If you pre-bake the clay you pretty much have to use it flat. I like my GF a lot.
@@MagsBCreations I never looked at it that way about having to keep it flat!! But what about freezing it first then let in thaw just a tad before cutting? Whatcha think?
You really don't need to firm it up to cut on the SB. I tested it on both SB and Silhouette machines and never found a big difference to the result. Maybe if you live in a particularly hot/humid environment. If your clay is really gummy then you should leach it in printer paper to help draw out some of the plasticizers. The only thing that causes a bad cut is if there are air bubbles between the clay and the freezer paper. If the blade hits an air pocket it can pull up the clay and give a bad cut. If you are just cutting solid color clay, no problem, just redo.
Hi Mags! When you took the excess clay off, were the cuts pretty clean or did you have to clean up the edges a little bit?
Thanks Mags! The detailed cuts on these designs looks amazing!
thanks Donna.
Thank you so much for all your Silhouette videos, Mags! I'm entertaining the idea of getting a Curio to cut polymer clay. I make miniatures of tile patterns and I was wondering, would the Curio be able to cut super small pieces, like 1/16 inch pieces?
I'm glad to be of help. 1/16 inch might be a bit too small to get a good cut. But if you are doing tile miniatures you might be able to cut a bigger square and engrave/score the lines for the tiles. Anything that is less than a 1/4" tends to get pulled up by the blade and messed up and/or messing up the other cuts.
@@MagsBCreations Thank you for your super quick reply! That's what i was afraid of and it totally makes sense. Thank you also for the tips! Just joined your facebook group as well :)
I wish you had more videos using the silver bullet because i bought a 24" silver bullet with all the tools but have really just used it for vinyl because there are no videos anywhere that i can find on how to set it up to etch, engrave etc ...None that go into much detail at all....So its a bit sad that i spent so much on this and cant learn how to use it :( if i were to of bought a sillouette or a cricket then there are tons of videos i could learn from . Would you have any suggestions where i might be able to learn to do the engraving and etching etc? I tried the learning center but people just mostly talk on there and I need learning videos so bad.
Hi Tammy! I started teaching how to cut polymer clay on the Silhouette machines soon after I got my SB and really haven't delved much into all the other things that it can do. You are right, there aren't a lot of videos online. I only use it now on a few of my items. And got a Glowforge laser LY which engraves materials that would be harder to do on the SB, so not much incentive for me to get deeper into the SB. I can help you with the polymer clay settings. But for the other materials I am at as much of a loss as you are.
@@MagsBCreations how kind of you to take the time to reply. I certainly have been excited to try with clay as well...I have plenty of premo to play with...I sa on one video where to take the clay sheets that are ready to cut like you do BUT bake them for just a little bit before cutting them...This makes sense and I was going to try that possibly today. Have you tried that? Also I am going to check out the Glowforge laser right now as well...Do you really like it?
@@tahomyjo I did some testing on cutting baked clay and it is doable. It just depends on the project. The items I make using the SB need to be pliable so I cut raw clay the most. If you pre-bake the clay you pretty much have to use it flat.
I like my GF a lot.
@@MagsBCreations I never looked at it that way about having to keep it flat!! But what about freezing it first then let in thaw just a tad before cutting? Whatcha think?
You really don't need to firm it up to cut on the SB. I tested it on both SB and Silhouette machines and never found a big difference to the result. Maybe if you live in a particularly hot/humid environment. If your clay is really gummy then you should leach it in printer paper to help draw out some of the plasticizers. The only thing that causes a bad cut is if there are air bubbles between the clay and the freezer paper. If the blade hits an air pocket it can pull up the clay and give a bad cut. If you are just cutting solid color clay, no problem, just redo.