April 06, 2016 (posted 8-26-22)

Makergear M2 Cricut Cutting Blade Attachment

On this episode of “What will he bolt on to the printer this week” we have a Cricut brand cutting blade housing mount.

The mount is pretty simple but it does require me to remove the v4 hotend to use.

This was a pretty simple mount to design that bolts right on to the V4 mount. (At the time I had to CENSOR the New Gear as it was in Beta trials and I’m wasn’t sure if I could show them yet.)

It just bolts on with two 8/32″ and one 6/32 screws. The blade holder is pretty cool as it has a certain amount of cutting depth adjustment that can be made by turning the top dial. There is an adhesive mat (not shown) that is clipped to the bed and the paper sticks right to it.

Initial tests with normal printer paper did ok….

…but anything with small details like areas of the skull tore pretty easy while cutting and didn’t stay stuck to the mat. I tried a thicker card type printer paper but that was even worse.

Switching over to a craft type card stock proved to be the winner, it cut out prefect shapes and even the little details stayed stuck to the adhesive mat.

Here’s a few of the test cutouts. I think this would be good for cutting out stencils for things like airbrushing, I still have some more tests to run but I’m very happy with the final results on this attachment. The Blade/Holder and Mat ran me about $20. I’m not sure how long the Mats last but they came two to a pack so I still have a back up to play with if this one wears out to fast.

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