Can You Laser Cut Vinyl Records

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Can you laser cut vinyl records.

Why your laser cutter could kill you by creating chlorine gas using pvc material. You can make one that will cut vinyl records for a couple hundred dollars or buy one for twice that. By heating the record or by using a hotknife you can easily cut your vinyl into whatever shape you need. If you want to precisely cut vinyl records a cnc router would be the safe and relativity cheap way.

If you have an old vinyl record that s unplayable or scratched upcycle it instead of throwing it away. Here you will find most of my designs that are available for purchase. Remember that you re creating the image by removing the negative space. You can make art designs jewelry and much more by cutting the record.

Since i can t control the power of the laser while it is cutting a vector path the laser cut records are cut laterally on the surface of the material. Showing 1 25 of 142 results. Support tutorials by hitting applaud button make a one time paypal contribu. Custom requests are welcome and are actually where most of these designs started.

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For example if you re going to create leaf shaped. All of our work is cut by a precision laser so we can give you more detail where others cannot. Create a template for the image you re going to cut out of the vinyl by sketching a silhouette on paper by hand using a software drawing tool or employing a photo editing program that will help adapt an image into an outline that can be transferred to the record. The main difference between these laser cut records and my 3d printed records is the axis that the grooves are cut on.

You may be wondering whether your existing laser cutting machine can cut vinyl or perhaps you ve attempted to cut this material with no luck so let s be clear you will need a laser cutting machine that is specifically optimised to cut vinyl. Although polyvinyl chloride pvc can in fact be cut with laser the thermal process produces hydrochloric acid and toxic fumes. Please do not use vinyl in a laser cutter. It would have been cheaper to buy a 400 vinyl cutter or even a 2000 graphtec than to sacrifice a 30 000 laser engraver.

Thee guys claim they have solved the problem but i can t see how unless they ve replaced every metal part with stainless.