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  1. #1

    Question rotary cloth cutting tool

    Hi All

    New here and so far love the site.

    I have a shopbot tool and normally cut plywood boat parts.

    i want to cut cloth and would like to add a rotary trailing type cloth cutter. Has anyone seen a rotary fabric knife attachment for a cnc router machine??

    Thanks
    Eric
    Eric Van Nostrand

  2. #2
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    I posted this response to you on another site before I found this one ...

    Take a look at this guy's site
    http://www.carlsondesign.com/
    You may get some ideas or be able to retro one of his cutters to your machine.
    He also has some boatbuilding links and software

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    Those cutter heads are nice. I guess the price isn't bad if you were in garment cutting as a business. Seems like you could cover your sacrificial table top with a cutting matt and mount a standard rotary cutter knife blade on a spring loaded shaft that swivels for well under that price... most likely with hardware store parts... shouldn't be much harder than retrofitting one of his cutters?
    -Marc

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