Cricut Explore Air 2 Balsa Wood

The cricut maker vs the cricut explore air 2 vs the cricut joy.

Cricut explore air 2 balsa wood.

Because i was being part lazy part crazy i decided to load the entire 36 in piece of balsa wood onto my cricut explore air. Cricut explore air 2. You absolutely can cut wood veneer using both the maker and the explore air 2 machines see cricut s guide here but you cannot cut thicker wood pieces like balsa wood. Balsa wood can only be cut using the knife blade and the maker with which the knife blade and housing work exclusively.

Cricut explore air 1 or 2 or cricut maker. The good news is we discovered that the cricut explore air can write on balsa wood without any bleeding. I used a not so brand new stronggrip adhesive cutting mat i had only used it twice before and i was pleased to see that no shifting occurred despite running 5 multiple cuts on the balsa wood note. I wasn t planning on cutting basswood until i stumbled into it when i had gone back to the store to get more balsawood.

It is definitely a lot sturider than balsa wood so i was a little worried about if it would cut or not. We had to jiggle the cut out a little bit as if we were working with perforated paper. The cricut explore air didn t completely cut through the balsa wood after a single pass cut. Cricut has several different cutting machines that are available for purchase.

Reach for cricut explore air 2 or cricut maker when you need to cut anything wider than 4 25 inches up to 12 inches. I did not unload the cutting mat for each re run. Similarities between the cricut maker explore air 2 and joy. The most popular amongst them are the cricut maker the explore air 2 and the joy.

Cricut maker has 10x the cutting power. Unfortunately the explore air 2 cannot cut thicker materials like balsa wood because it cannot use the knife blade shown in the blog post. The cricut maker is the machine for you if you d like to cut balsa wood or even other thicker materials like leather or even chipboard too.