Brother Scan & Cut Standard Cutting Blade

Always nice to have replacement blades for your scan n cut and being this is brother brand you know that the quality will be the same as the blades that came with your machine out of the box! The price is the same as what I have seen in the stores and with prime there was no shipping cost and I didnt have to stand in line at the craft store. The husband likes this as it prevents additional purchase :)

I got this to use especially for cutting fabric only. I have another one just for cutting paper. Will use this for the appliques that I will soon be making. I just wanted to up date here about the deep cut blade. I am still using my original one that I got with my machine. I have the Brother scan n cut cm550dx. When I purchased that one I got a lot of accessories with it. I have been cutting craft foam about 1/8 inch thick by 6inches wide by 9inches long. I am using my deep cutting blade. I wanted to make stamps from some of the patterns found within my Brother cut n scan. I found a tutorially on how to do it. I followed the instructions for the blade depth and the pressure depth. For me it was to much blade and pressure so I had to make adjustments. I also found that my standard blade would cut the foam if I set up to something like depth 10 or 11 and set the cut pressure at 10. However when I tried this with my deep cut blade I cut right through my standard mat. I used duct tape on the back to fix but it did not really do that well. When I started to make a new cut the mat slide to the side and my cuts came out bad so I had to readjust everything and use a side that was not cut and duck taped. Because it is craft foam I really needed to use my deep cut blade. My settings are on 8 3/4 or almost 9 for my blade and my cut pressure is set to 7. I had to make many test cuts to get it right. I cut out about 12 stamps designs and 8 backings to place the stamps on. For me with these settings everything cut really well. I missed out here on getting the deep cut blade when I ordered some new mats. I had to order a standard mat to replace the one I cut up. The price here for the deep cut and standard blades are very reasonable in comparison to what I have see elsewhere. I see most reviews are dated 2014. I know these are mostly old reviews here now for the deep cut blade. If you see this review and want to comment on please do. If you are interested in cutting foam and are not quit sure how to do it. Do and test cut first. This way you will not get scoring or you will not cut your mat up like I did mine. You will always have to set the depth cut for any of the blades along with the cut pressure. I think that is what the main problem is people are forgetting to change the cut pressure. First check to see what thickness can be cut via your instruction manual. I really like my machine and once I set it correctly it cuts fine and all is good.

I love what this machine can do. The best thing about is that you do not to have it connected to a computer. At first I had problems with the scan option but a friend told me that you had to have it in light for the scan to work well. I hope to do a lot with machine.

New replacement blade.

Not much to say its a blade and its sharp. I do a lot of cutting so its good to have these spares

good blades

Love these

First class product

Excellent