Drag Knife allowable cutting depth

[Bigchepin (Gato)]

@Ryguy13 I recently came across this thread on a tangential cutter that may be of interest to you.

Tangential cutter in development

Some people may have seen where a few of us hijacked a drag knife thread to talk about hardware off topic. Sorry OP. I was able to remix a drag knife to increase the offset by a couple of mm’s, which effectively enabled me to cut lots of circles in 7mm double wall cardboard pretty reliably. Useless for anything with corners because the huge offset trashes the minimum radius of cut. The answer for thicker material seems to be a tangential cutter. I thought I would share my progress working o…