4 Pack Combo German Carbide & Deep Cut Replacement Cutting Blades for Craft Cutting Machines Compatible with Bridge Air Expression 2 Explore One Maker Refine Cutters

These work with VariQuest Cutout Maker 1800
These work perfectly with our VariQuest machine and are 90% cheaper than OEM replacement blades.

Hard to find replacement blades, cheap packaging
I cannot find these blades at any craft stores in my area — even the store where I actually bought my Cricut from (what’s up with that?!). Works as expected. Had to look up how to actually change out the blades and the packaging it came in felt cheap and was a very crumpled. They claimed minimal packaging to help the environment or something like that. The blades themselves were fine, so not a big deal.

Great replacement
Worked great

They are not excellent, but not as bad as they are made out to be.
**** Update 1/19/2016 ***************The blades are still fine, but it did occur to me that some people have mentioned “these are the only blades they use”. Well, think again. The cut angle also plays a big roll in cut quality. Imagine “slicing” a tomato at an angle. Then imagine slicing a tomato with the blade straight on, parallel with the cutting board. You’ll only accomplish squishing the tomato and not cutting it. This isn’t any different. With a taller angle on the deep blades, you are basically trading cut-angle for “depth”, so the effect is like pushing the blade into your material vs slicing your material with the standard blade.I may continue using the Bridge Cutter blades, but I’ll be switching over to the standard depth blades. I feel the deep blades are worthless (to me anyway) since the deeper you cut, the higher the material ends up, where you suffer more of the thickness of the blade shaft itself. Notice the attached photo. it is sharp and narrow at the tip, and thicker (yet sharp) at the top of the edge. This is the reason why my polycarbonate got kicked off the sticky mat. The material was binding at the top of the edge and basically… the cut was “OVER”, and so was my work-piece… as well as my cutting mat.********************************************************************I just got a Cricut and after a couple days of testing, it seemed I needed to buy “deep cut” blades. So I went on a search for deep cut blades. After reading reviews, it seemed it was worth the extra (not few bucks, but a lot more bucks) money to get the original Cricut blades. Well, I needed them right away and the Cricut blades were not in stock (Amazon Prime). I ordered these just before Christmas and they arrived today (12/28).People have said these are not as good as the Cricut blades. People also say they are not as long as the standard blades. It is said these also don’t last as long. If you’ve read my other reviews, they can be very extensive and detailed, but after a few days of testing the Cricut, these Bridge Cutter Deep Cut blades, and based on my application, this is my take on these blades.First of all, I’ll say that these fit a little tighter than the Cricut blade (I only have the original blade). Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I work in the industrial environment, working with CNC machines and such so tighter tolerances are a good thing. In this case, a tighter (not binding) fit is better because there will be less wiggle, resulting in a more precise cut.As shown in the attached photo, the blade on top is the Bridge Cutter blade. Below is the original Cricut blade. The Bridge Cutter is obviously shorter than the Cricut blade. Does this matter? I might, and it might not. Based on reviews, this is a disappointing factor since “how can this blade cut deeper if it is shorter?” Ok, base on the included image by Bridge Cutter, it is clear that the depth of cut is not based on the total length of the blade, but the height of the blade “EDGE”, which is shown as taller than the Cricut blade. Does this affect the reach of the blade to the material or the mat? No. My immediate need to to cut some 0.04″ polycarbonate plastic and after about 12 passes, the material got knocked off the mat and the blade started scoring my mat, so the answer is “no”, the shortness of the blade doesn’t seem to affect reach (Cricut, I can’t speak for any other machine).I’m sure these blades would work fine with stickers or vinyl. I have been cutting a ton of paper and transparencies and these blades are fine. They will definitely not last forever but they should be fine. As far as people saying these aren’t sharp or a dull Cricut blade cuts better than a new Bridge Cutter, well, looking under the microscope, these blades are quite sharp. Again, working in the industrial market, it should be known that all cutters are NOT made equal. Not all knives are made equal. So this is no different. The sharpness of the blade is not the only factor in how well it cuts. It’s also the method/technique. In this case, other factors like pressure and speed also have effect on cut quality. Unfortunately, you can’t control the speed of these cutters but you can control the pressure. A direct swap of the blades may not yield the same results. For those who are not having luck with these blades, try adjusting the cut pressure in the Materials section of your application.So far, I’m pretty indifferent towards these blades which, however, I was hoping the packaging these blades arrived in was better thought out. What you see in the photos is just a cardboard backing and the six blades are taped using packaging tape to secure them to the backing. The rubber caps are a nice touch, but as these arrived, the blades could have fallen out and I could have lost some. These coming from Amazon’s warehouse, the picker would just go to a bin a pick up a package, not knowing if any blades fell out or not. These could have been put in a zip-lock or a sealed baggie would have been much better. This product was only $15, so that’s about $2.50 or so each, so it’s not really worth returning if one had fallen out. I’ll probably purchase more of these blades when they all go dull or chip based on my more extreme applications (I’ll be trying to cut the copper off copper clad boards to make PCB at some point soon), so I hope my next order will show up in a baggie instead of just taped over, yet loose.

I bought this for my cricut explore air 2, the red colour thing you see in the picture is basically a cap to protect the actual blade. To install I basically remove the original blade component from my machine and carefully remove the long thin blade and replace it with this product. Very happy with the price

Good quality.