Wife was looking at a cricut at the Joanne’s this morning. I told her my cnc could do all that with the right cutter head… Guess who is now trying to mount a cricut blade to his CNC…
Cool, the rotary blade is geared!
For what she’s wanting to do, I think I can just get this:
If all you’re doing is vinyl you’re good.
Vinyl, thin paper, Iron transfers.
One of the coolest things I saw while watching was the cricut makes a sticky hold down board. It has a light-weight tacky area that you can put the paper down onto. The backer is the same material as those big cutting mats. It looks like it gives an awesome place for the cutter to run over so that it doesn’t damage the tip.
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Guess who better start thinking about building another MPCNC because they won’t have access to the one they have now anymore… 
Cost-wise, I could just buy her a Cricut. I want to say my MPCNC was about $300 to get running.
Guess who’s just passing by spamming links and hopefully get banned from the forum…
https://wisepick.org/best-vinyl-cutter/
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-vinyl-cutter
https://heatpresshangout.com/best-vinyl-cutter-for-a-small-business/
I think the cricut blades are tangential cutters, so the rotation is driven by a motor, unlike a dragknife. If it rotates freely, it’ll probably work though.
My wife ended up getting a cricut from her mom for Christmas. We still haven’t had a chance to power it on and use it.
I’m sure it will do better than the MPCNC did, although I can’t complain. I got good results from all the cuts I did.
The last cut I did was to cut out a mask for a paint job I did on something. It came out well. Required minimal work with an exacto to clean up some of the sharper corners.
For the past four years, I’ve had a Silhouette Cameo. It’s awesome, but not at all appropriate for manufacturing or heavy work, in my opinion. I use mine for cut-up experiments, mock-ups, making stencils, textures, and so on. It’s pretty convenient, but I’ve never tried cutting 500 invites with it, and I think it would be a little painful. While I have designer friends who used a Silhouette for party paraphernalia projects and used it for a long time before switching to another cutter…
Talk about raising a thread from the dead 
The wife has been using her cricut for a few years now. She uses it weekly for all types of stuff. For Christmas this year we added a heat press to her toolbelt.
I’m not sure about mass producing anything with it, but it’s been keeping up so far. I’ve had her use it to cut a few paint masks.
Now use that with heat transfer paper to transfer pictures to wood and cut puzzles with your laser!
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