Weeding Small Vinyl Letters

Here s a rundown of our best tips whether you re looking to take a design to the next level or need a refresher on weeding small letter and decals follow these tips and tricks below.

Weeding small vinyl letters.

Reverse weeding vinyl is so much easier to do than the regular way most people week with their cricut or silhouette machines. As we all know weeding is the term we use to describe the process of removing the vinyl we don t want to use. Oh boy weeding tiny letters sure can be an arduous task. Sometimes when you pull up the vinyl you ll lose dots and commas or even entire letters.

More on this in the tips tricks section. These vinyl weeding tips are applicable to all types of vinyl whether that be htv iron on vinyl or adhesive vinyl. Weeding small letters and decals can be a difficult task but learning how to weed small letters and decals is crucial knowledge to have in the sign industry. I m seriously getting mad just thinking about all the times that s happened to me.

Weeding small letters is difficult. Very tiny components the whole decal is around 8cm x 9 5cm. These tips are especially helpful for weeding small letters and numbers or weeding intricate mandala designs. And then having to pick it off and hope to the silhouette gods that it won t wrinkle or ruin the letter it s stuck to.

In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. Then getting those small pieces of the inside of the letters stuck on other pieces of the design. First of all go slowly and make sure you have lots of bright light so you can see your cuts. Most vinyl cutting machines have a range of different blades.

Some people excel at weeding letters others can t stand the job. How to weed vinyl. Cut settings in cricut design space. Plus i m sharing my tricks for picking the right font to cut at any size even teeny tiny.

Let me know how that works out but when you cut out vinyl weeding has to be done. Reverse weeding is a new trick. Use the right blade. Cutting and weeding super small text live never a good idea.

How do i weed small vinyl lettering.