Glad to see our tool is getting some discussion here. I thought I would take a moment to address some of the topics being discussed.

There are a number of vinyl cutting tools available, but they are not typically effective at cutting materials thicker than vinyl. Our tool is capable of cutting to a depth of 6.4mm without tearing your materials. It is being used successfully to cut veneer, leather, cardboard, gaskets, and many plastics ranging in thickness from 1.2mm to 6.4mm. The corner operations can be tricky to program, but we are working on a couple of different programs to facilitate programming the actions with a mouse click. Most objects being cut do not ever require sharp corners, so this is not typically a problem. There is a small amount of material left in corners. This is not typically a problem when separating the parts. swapping parts in veneers and other inlay applications is no problem as the tool has such a small kirf. Unlike laser cut veneers or routered inlays, it is no longer necessary to throw away half the material being cut. If you cut a dark and a light part and swap pieces, you retain two usable parts rather than only one.

There are other competing products on the market capable of doing similar things. Tangential knife products using a motor to orient the blade for cutting in the correct direction are an excellent solution, but tend to be cost prohibitive for the average user. These devices when purchased from other manufacturers typically start at $5000 US and go up very quickly. They require specialized programming and driver software capable of controlling a 4th axis in tandem with the usual 3. This tool is completely passive and accessible to anyone with a cnc router. It simply chucks into your existing 1/2in collet (we have a 1/4in tool in development). Our tool uses a specific,yet standardized blade that is accessible to anyone making the long term operation far less expensive than tools requiring $25 blades. Sorry about the US currency.

We are patent pending on this technology. The duplication of it is actually much more tricky than one might think. There are very important things that come into play in the proper function of this tool. Simply going out and trying to make one might yield some usable results, but to get the results possible with this tool would require a lot of attempts. This tool has undergone a great deal of development. Versions of this tool have over 11 years of use in production in our snowboard production as well as other snowboard manufacturing facilities.