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Vinyl Explosion

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Well, I had some difficulties with the wall vinyl I’ve been using so I decided to stop being so cheap and do a bunch of designs to practice installing. Did some research on other user’s different techniques for Oracal 631 wall vinyl application. I cut most of the designs before I realized I should cut some [...]

Ahh Shoot!

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Tried to put up this dragon design onto my wall at home and ran into a few problems. Some people have had problems with the Oracal 631 vinyl material not lifting off the liner with even the highest tack tapes and I was one of them Thursday night. I squeegeed the front and back of [...]

Intricate Cut

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I wanted to use up the remainder of the sample sheet of wall vinyl today. I picked a bunch of designs that looked cool but were simple. Or so I thought. I sent a design to the cutter, cut it and started weeding it out when I hear “Holy crap! That’s the design your doing? [...]

Well, my boss has given me the given me permission to use one side of my office wall to use to graffiti up with vinyl. He just wants to see some designs in colors other than brown. HAHA! He’s nudging me to buy a sampler I saw online – 12 of the most popular colors [...]

Wading In

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I decided after my sample test of the wall vinyl to just bite the bullet and get a bunch of rolls of the more popular colors and just wade right in. I was disappointed when I got to the sign supply shop. They had barely any Oracal 631 material on the shelves and only in [...]

Well, I researched what type of vinyl was good for wall decals, wall art, wall tattoos, whatever you want to call it and I came up with Oracal 631 as a good first choice. It has a matte finish and is really easy to weed but I heard some people had problems lifting the vinyl [...]

Purchased a Graphtec CE5000-60 (24 inch. wide) Vinyl Cutter. Finally got my cutter mid January but I was working on a database project at that time so it had to sit. Got it unpacked at the end of January but had a few issues with the software plugin for Corel Draw. Emailed tech support for [...]