First off, this thing was cheap. We shopped around and found a cutter from US Cutters on eBay (don’t buy from their website). After negotiating my own shipping the end price door to door was around $505. Not too shabby for a 36″ vinyl cutting monster.

The cutter itself is about 50″ long and it comes with a stand. Along with the tiny little cutting blades there is a pen plotting attachment that you can use to draw with.

We’ve cut a few things already, mostly stuff for Rob’s farm as you will see in the pictures.

Applying vinyl is pretty straight forward as long as you think things through in advance. It’s really sticky and once it’s on whatever surface you are using it’s not really coming off without being destroyed.

Anyway, with the amount we spent it’ll save us a fortune in sign making costs. Since cutting a few yards of vinyl ourselves will cost about $4/yard and having a shop do it would cost 10 times that.

On the laptop note… when am I going to finally get my dual screen laptop? I want a 14″ laptop that has dual touch screens where one replaces the keyboards we now use. It should also fold flat and click together like a tentpole so I can use it as one big tablet. I’d create some illustrations but my non-touchscreen laptop would take too long. I wonder if there’s a WordPress plugin for sketches to an image…