I kept reading posts about how people couldn't make their deep cut blades work, but still purchased the housing and blade anyhow.
This is how I make it cut with my baby bug.
Tape chipboard or mat board (I like HL Mat board, the huge 36x48" sheets that I can cut down myself) to the mat around the edges using blue painters tape. I use a mat that is no longer sticky because I can't make it stick to even a new mat, so why waste sticky mats.
Load mat into machine.
Set speed to 2.
Set pressure to max.
Set blade depth to 2.5 (in between the 2 and the 3 on the deep blade housing).
Select design and cut.
Now this is the important part!!!
Hit Load Paper
Hit Repeat Last
Change blade depth to 3.5
Cut
Hit Load Paper
Hit Repeat Last
Change blade depth to 4
Cut
Hit Load Paper
Hit Repeat Last
Change blade depth to 4.5
Cut
Hit Load Paper
Hit Repeat Last
Change blade depth to 5
Cut
Hit Load Paper
Hit Repeat Last
Change blade depth to 5.5
Cut
I know that is a TON of cuts, but it allows you to cut layer by layer through the mat board and it produces a nice cut. You will not necessarily have to cut this many times if the chipboard cuts sooner than a 5.5 depth. I do not have to cut the mat board from HL at a 6, 5.5 is sufficient. If you purchase the grey chipboard from the art section with the .04 depth you only need to cut to a 4 and the chipboard with the .055 depth you will only need to cut to a 5 depth... or at least that is my experience.
This is still not a fool proof method, but, it does work about 75% of the time, which is better than 0% that many people are experiencing.
Hope this helps a lot of people who are having problems with their deep blade and housing. It took my BF and I about 3 hours to figure out that you had to go one click at a time.
I welcome questions, and hope that this helps A LOT of people out there who are frustrated with their deep cut blades.
I hope to get some new projects posted and a few other tutorials, tips and tricks that I have discovered recently.
