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Flexible, reusable material for vinyl cutter?

Alright, so someone I know has a vinyl cutter and is also an airbrush artist. He wants to know if there is any material other than transparency that he can use to cut a stencil out. He wants something that a thin plastic, reusable, able to stand up to aibrushing and not break down after 2 uses, and that's somewhat flexible. Does anyone have any idea what he could use?

In addition to transparency sheets, fabric stores sell various weights of plastic to use for cutting out one's own stencils... and old x-rays work well too. Other possibilities like that might be "rubylith" that's used for screen printing, or old film or negatives, etc.

On a more exotic note, very flexible blank "decals" (without an image) can be made from liquid polymer clay, then have a shape cut out of them**.
Or even sheets of dried permanent white glue or acrylic paint could be cut out after being poured onto glass/etc., then drying.
A little more expensive would be making sheets of a 2-part silicone mold-making material.

**This is usually done on a sheet of glass or a ceramic tile/etc., then baked for a short time in a home oven at about 300 F to cure. There's more info here on using liquid polymer clay to make thin, flexible films like this, if he's interested:

http://glassattic.com/polymer/LiquidSculpey.htm

(...click on the category called FILMS...)

HTH,

Diane B.