While most commercial and industrial SMD stencils are made out of laser cut stainless steel, [Peter] figured out a piece of plastic and a $300 craft cutter is equally well suited for the job.

[Juan] recently learned a new trick to make cutting solder stencils a less painful process. He uses a laser cutter to cut Mylar sheets into stencils. [Juan] appears to be using EagleCAD and ...

Stencil machines cut or print fonts and symbols on materials and substrates. They are used to create stencils for marking applications or to print stencils for SMT applications. Marking equipment is ...