How To Cut Clear Vinyl Sheets

Put on safety glasses before doing any kind of cutting and wear ear plugs if you use an electric saw.

How to cut clear vinyl sheets.

Harder clear plastics such as polycarbonate may require multiple passes with a knife but the result will be a clean cut finished edge with no chips or cracks. Acrylic sheets are fairly simple to cut. It comes in sheets or rolls depending on the size of the vinyl. Corrugated roofing sheets are an inexpensive way to cover a patio shed or greenhouse and are available in colors such as white blue and green as well as opaque colors and clear plastic.

Softer colored plastic sheets often require two passes and then must be snapped on the score. Although the clear vinyl won t fray you may want to finish the edges to give your project a professional look. Trick is to not go too fast or too slow. Cut decorative edges or sew fabric edges to your project.

Clear vinyl sheets are convenient to have on hand for added furniture protection extra privacy automotive applications or weather proofing projects. Just put some blue painters tape around the role where i was cutting. P i ve cut a few rolls with a miter saw now issues. You can easily cut thin plastic sheets less than 1 16 inch 063 thick with a utility knife.

I don t recall what the tooth count of the blade i was using but it was the standard blade i use for cutting wood maybe a 60 tooth p. Htv has a clear plastic carrier sheet that covers the top of the vinyl and the other side is where the heat sensitive adhesive is it is not sticky or tacky to the touch. The cricut can cut a maximum width of 12 so i had to cut my vinyl down by hand to make it fit on the mat. Recently i ordered some white adhesive vinyl without paying attention to the width it was 15 wide.

If your sheet is relatively thin less than 3 16 inch 0 48 cm you can use the scoring method. The reason that you need to mirror your design when working with heat transfer or iron on vinyl you cut the design on the back side of the vinyl. Or fold a strip of soft fabric over the sides and hem the material. You can cut along the sides of the clear vinyl using pinking shears or decorative scissors.