I almost broke the machine.. Cricut Vs. Brother ScanNCut Pushed To Their LIMITS 😩

All right, my friends. You guys seem to be obsessed with this video series, learning about the Cricut versus Brother Scan and Cut. And here's the thing. I've decided today I've got to see where is the limit on both of these machines. In today's video, we're going to do a head-to-head comparison where we're going to push both of these machines to their limit. We're going to try things like uh plastics, fabrics, woods, acrylic alternatives, and so much more in this video to really see which machine actually wins these comparisons. And I think the results may surprise you. This Brother Scan and Cut, y'all, have features that you don't even know about that I am going to expose in this video. The Cricut Maker is known for its adaptive tools and all of the amazing things it can do. What if I told you that these materials that Cricut has said for years that only the Cricut Maker can cut, what if the Brother Scan and Cut has been able to cut it so well, so easily, and with ease? That is what we're going to uncover in this video. With a lot of the materials that we have thought are traditionally only able to cut on the Cricut, we're going to try them on the Brother Scan and Cut and see if they can hold up. Go ahead and leave me a comment and let me know which machine you're rooting for and any other comparison that you think I should do. If you're new around here, my name is Tanner. I founded Makers Going to Learn many years ago and I am here to teach you how to craft better and use D cutting machines like never before. Let's go ahead and dive in. The first material we're putting to the test, fabric. And what I've done is I've went ahead and added some heat and bond to the back of the fabric to make sure that it's a fair comparison for both the Cricut and the Brother Scan and Cut. And I know my Cricut friends are going to be like, Tanner, you don't even have to use heat and bond on fabric. That is true, but I want to get a really good cut. And I think the Brother Scan and Cut will probably do better if I have the Heat and Bond on there to use with the regular blade. So, this is what we're going to do. We're going to cut it out and see how well it works. Are you guys ready? Let's dive in first with the Brother Scan and Cut. All right, guys. First things first, in preparation for this video, I uncovered something that I had no idea was such a big deal. Since these mats are Scan and Cut mats, did you guys know these mats are almost $30? It's over $20, like almost $30 for a mat. So, as we've been testing and wanting to learn more about these materials, we were like, you know what? We need to make sure we have some good mats on hand um from the traditional ones. And y'all, when I found out that these mats were almost $30, I about fell out of my my chair. It's crazy. So, that's partly why I'm using Heat and Bond to protect this mat because that's just crazy. I don't know about you, but who's who's affording these mats? No wonder people in the comments were like, "I've been using the same mat for 3 years because you can't afford a new mat." Like, it is crazy at how expensive they are. And I used to complain about the cost of a Cricut mat. So, anyway, it's really cost effective to take good care of your Brother Scan and Cut mat. I'm talking like your fourth kid. Like, you got to babysit your mat. So, these are my two mats. I have a standard tac mat and then I also have the low tac mat. But what I want to tell y'all about my about my faithful brand pretty new standard mat is that it's like it's already losing its tack. I don't know if you guys can see that on camera, but it's just not it's just not that sticky. So, here's what I'm going to do. I you know, I have my heat and bond. If you're using heat and bond, it's always best to put it heat and bond side up. And I'm going to lay this down. But here's what I'm going to do. There is technology in here that is scanning the mat. Um, so I've laid it down. So I'm just adding some painters tape here. I'm making sure that I don't get in the way of the scanning technology because it can mess up. So I'm not doing a scan and cut or anything like that, but I know it will scan them out. So I'm just trying to put some of this here because I'm worried. I am worried this is going to come up and we're all going to test the same material around the same uh shape. So today's shape is a star. All right. So I've just got my my tape down and now we're going to be able to set it up in Brother. All right, my crafty friends. I have a confession that I have to just confine in y'all because you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you. Um I actually am liking this little screen. Can you believe it? So, let's click on pattern. And once we click on pattern, we're going to do just a shape. I want to show y'all all these different shapes in here. Like, there's so many. Um, I'm just going to do a star. I think a star is a really good comparison. And we're just go flip through till we find a star. And then we'll make it just a little bit smaller. And you can just hold it. Beautiful. So, a little We'll do We'll do three. So, 3-in star. We're going to set that. And then I'm just going to move it down a little bit. I love how easy that was. We'll click okay. We're go select. And then what we're going to do is look, we are going to cut. Now, you may not believe what I'm about to tell you, but there is a auto detection with the blade. So, it's going to do the speed. We're go do a full cut. Um, I'm really, really excited. So, let's go ahead and load it in. All right. So, let's just take this mat. And again, we're using the standard mat. I'm going to load it. It's loading in. And I didn't have to mirror anything or anything like that. And you can see some of the fabric is here on the sides. I'm a little worried about that. Probably should have trimmed it down a little bit. Um, but we'll see. We'll see what happens. So, let's go ahead and press start. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. This auto detection is absolutely crazy. All right. Like, it's auto detecting the pressure or something. I mean, cricket could never. We have to tell the cricket everything to do, guys. What? Oh my Oh my gosh. Okay. Did you see it move around? I saw it move around, guys. Look at this. Oh, snap. Okay, let's take a look. Y'all, can we talk about all the video equipment behind me and I'm filming on this little bitty camera? Um, okay. I'm gonna unload it and we're gonna take a look. Oh. Oh, it cut so good. There's one area where it didn't move and it didn't cut that great. You can see there. Um, but other than that, the cut is really good. Like really, really good. Like, holy cow, good. Like and then, you know, if we technically, you know, didn't need the heat and bond, we could, you know, peel that off or we just peel the backer off and it has the heat and bond activated on here so we could apply it um like heat it up and things. But y'all, it auto detected. This is what's crazy about this machine. It auto detected the amount of pressure. So, like I did not edit anything out. I didn't set it to anything crazy. It's just on auto detection. And I think that's what's funny because like what if what will happen when we start cutting the wood? You know what I'm saying? Like the wood like it's crazy. So, let's go ahead and see how the Cricut cuts out the same material. All right, my friends. What we're doing is we're just going to take the same exact setup. We are going to put our fabric down onto the Cricut mat. Same exact setup, same exact material. really. Um I am using a strong grip mat. I am not using a fabric grip mat today. Um just because I just want something that was quick. Um and like we're using the same exact material. So you can see here's the Brother Scan and Cut Star. Will the Cricut be able to handle it? Um this will be really a good head-to-head comparison. I am not using the FA fabric grip blade. Um, I don't think because this machine has uh the bonded fabric which will allow us to do a pretty similar comparison um with the fineoint blade to the Brother Scan and Cut blade. Okay y'all, so my machine's connected. It is taking a little bit of time to get to this next material screen. I want to just pick the material with you. Um, so you'll see how long uh, you know, all the different options and things like that for bonded fabric and see if we need what blade. I'm pretty sure we could do it with the fineoint blade, though. So, come on, Cricket. Come on. Okay, as we wait, I just want to like check in and just remind y'all like I am not a huge fan of the Brother Scan and Cut little screen. But in times like this, I'm like, you know what? It's amazing that I didn't need a computer. I didn't need Bluetooth. I didn't need anything. But again, we're just cutting out like basic shapes. But I am starting to like see the appeal of the Brother Scan Cut. Like it just cut out fabric, which we've been told by Cricket for years like just isn't possible with other machines. So, I mean, it would be really easy if the Cricut would would load like it should. Let's press cancel and like maybe restart it. Okay. Okay. Here's my little star. Come on. Hello, Cricket. Okay. Have my star. I thought I could bypass some of this just so that you, you know, didn't have to see it, but for a comparison. Okay, look. I'm on the right. It's already working. I just had to restart it. So, we're going to type in bonded and see if it has bonded fabric. So, uh bonded cotton, which is exactly what we're using. And then we'll press done. And it does say to use the fineoint blade. So, that's perfect. Exactly what we have. Um doesn't matter if it's mirrored or not because it's just a star. So, yeah, let's go ahead and load it up. And here's what we're going to do. We have our our machine. We're going to load it in here and we're about to we're about to cut it out. Woohoo. Okay, so let's go ahead and press the flashing Cricut button and watch it cut. [Music] Oh, it cut out. Okay, y'all. I. Ooh. Okay. Here's the cut. I don't know if you all can tell this just from the video. The edges are a little rigid. It did stay on the mat, but it it has two areas where it did the same thing as the other video or as the other cut where it didn't Oh, there's two. So, like the other one I was able to just like rip it off. So, let me Okay. This was the cut. So, just head to head. Also, can we talk about how this star has so many more? I am literally shocked right now. I'm sure the fabric blade would do better. Um, but these edges just don't look as The left is the Cricut, the right is Brother Skin and Cut, y'all. Let's show it on this on the floor. Okay, my friends. So, the left is Cricut, and you can see like just how the fineoint blade did. And then the right is the Brother Scan and Cut. Um, and we can remove the the material, the backer, uh, just so that we can show it apples to apples. But honestly, I'm a little surprised at how rigid. Like, I just don't like the way these edges look. I mean, come on. So, that's a head-to-head comparison. Um, so let me know in the comments like which one you're leaning more towards. I mean, obviously, I think this should have cut better than this, but I'll let you decide. All right, my friends. So, we did fabric first. I think the next one we're going to do is wood veneer. This is one that I'm a little worried about for the Brother. Like, can the Brother cut this material? It's thick and it's auto detection can only go so far, right? Like, can it really detect this thick of material? Like, I don't know. So, let's go ahead load it on the mat. I'm going to do that standard grip mat again. So, let's get our standard grip mat. I'm gonna place it here. We're gonna cut that same star. That star it is got some extra edges than the Cricut one. But, I mean, y'all like it's this is a real What's crazy is I love doing these videos in real time. I think it's funny cuz like normally just so you guys are are aware like normally I make these videos and we do prep and stuff like that but like I can just sense that you guys are wanting like the raw and real and that's what we've been doing lately and you guys have just been loving it. Um which makes me really happy and I love just giving a true comparison. I usually would let other people on my team make all of these comparison videos and I'm like, I'm having so much fun comparing these because it really is shocking every single time. So, let's head over set it up. Make sure it's all set up. Is it set up? Does it save it? Oh, it's still there. Oh my gosh. We can guys. That's cool. We can just keep doing the same thing. So, I'm loaded in. All right, y'all. So, we have our star. We have our material loaded in right here as you can see. And now all we're going to do is press select. We're go cut. And then once we're once we're good to go, we'll press start and it's going to auto detect. How is it going to do? I'm nervous. Brother, can you win two of the three materials? I don't I just don't think it's possible, personally. What is it doing? Okay, so it detected it. Did you Did you guys notice that it like measured the material? Do you guys hear this? Oh, is it going to cut it twice? Oh, let's go get it twice. It's auto detecting, guys. It's auto detecting. Mm-m. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Oh, no, it isn't. Oh. Oh. What's it doing? A third pass, guys. It literally is detecting the thickness of the material. What is it doing? You hear that? Stop it. [Music] Guys. Guys, I'm nervous. I need like a tool. Okay, y'all. Okay, I think it Oh my Oh my gosh. Let's unload it. Okay, moment of truth. Moment of truth. Moment of truth. Hallelujah. Guys, look at this. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Are you guys picking up what I'm putting down? I cricket, can you cut like this? Can you cut like this, Cricket? We're about to find out. I did not expect that. I don't know what I was expecting, but I did not expect that to happen. Um maybe maybe the Brother Scan and Cut maybe the Brother Scan and Cut is on to something like that is crazy. We're going to get this same exact material, this veneer. We're go put it on this uh this mat here. And what we're going to do is once we get it on, we're go cut out another star on the Cricut and we'll see how it does. So, here's our mat. We're going to set up our star again and we're going to change our setting. All right, friends. So, we got to go browse all material. We need to type in wood and we want to use wood veneer. So, natural wood veneer. Press done. It's letting us know we need to load in the deep point blade. So, let me go get the deep point blade because it is recommending a different blade. And we'll see how it does. Look at this. We have all of our deep cut blades, all of our specialty tools. We're just go open up plant B. We're go pop the blades out. It's got the deep cut blade is in there. Looks beautiful. We're going to load this in. I'm so excited. And then now that it's loaded, we can press the flashing Cricut and let it cut. Oh. Oh. How many passes do we think it's going to cut? That's one. Here comes two. Oh, it says it's going to cut four passes. Okay. Pass three. Ooh, it's looking pretty good, too. Okay, here we go. Boom. Let's unload the map. Moment of truth. Guys, stop it. What? Okayoo. I was literally about to be shocked if it it's not popping off the mat like I'm having like Okay. Okay. You can see there's a spot or two that like down here it was wanting to stay stuck like that edge like but it didn't pop off which I don't think here's my thing. I don't think you have to I don't think you have to have it like wow like pop off the mat to get a good cut. Um I just thought that was really impressive. It seems like the Brother Scan and Cut like knows the material better than Cricut. Like that was a deep cut blade. The edges are not perfect, but here's the comparison. I don't know. I think the Cricut did pretty good. It was just I think I'm most impressed by the Brother Scan and Cut because I didn't know it could ever cut wood veneer. Like I've just spent years being marketed to by Cricut saying like we're the only machine that could do this stuff. Obviously not true. All right y'all, the moment of truth. We are going to cut one of your favorite materials right now, which is the acrylic alternative. And this is a file folder. I'm going to cut it up. We're gonna put it on the amazing amazing Brother Scan and cut mat first and then after that we are gonna put it on the Cricut mat. I am very nervous. I get nervous during comparison videos. Like these are videos are not prepped. They, you know, they could go sideways. Um, you know, we're just documenting the real life examples of what could happen. So, I'm just trying to get a good sheet here without all of the extra. So, let me just cut this out. This I have a whole video on using with Cricut, and the Cricut did really good. So, I'm going to put it on the Brother mat again. We're going to get the uh the the tape is very handy. All right. Highly highly recommend the tape. Very important for our project today. I'm just going to tape this down. Let me know in the comments what do you think. Who's going to win? Like, you got to tell me your vote for all three. I'm pretty I think I'm most impressed by the autoblade technology. I did not even know that it would work that good. Like truthfully, did not expect this at all um to even be plausible on these machines. So, I'm just securing this down. I like to do about four corners, but I also want to be mindful of the mat and things like that. So, okay, here is our tape down mat. Let's go ahead load it into this machine. Brother, scan and cut. Brother, are y'all going to call me? Cuz like, how many of these machines are we selling? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, this is crazy. Okay, let's make sure we have it all set up right. All right, my friends. So, we have our same star. We're gonna select again. We're gonna do cut. All right, start it up. Already loaded it in. We're becoming Brother Scan and Cut pros. How will it do with this material? Oh my gosh. It's thinking about it. I think this technology of it detecting the material is game changer. Oh, okay. This is cut one. Ooh. Okay. Here we go. Goes in for a second cut. It's like checking to see if it's cut through. Can you guys hear how quiet this is? Very quiet machine. Okay. Can it be that easy? Okay, so it looks like it's cut. Didn't even unload it yet. It's cut. Oh my gosh, y'all. Look at this. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. I can't believe this. This is crazy. How easy did it just cut out? Like it didn't even look like the Brother was under any stress. And this is a pretty unique material. You know what I'm talking about? Okay, so the Brother Scann and Cut. Cut like this. This is crazy. I'm loading it up to cut on the Cricut machine. It's going to be really good. I wonder I don't think you have to have a deep cut blade for it. So, here's the setting we've used in the past that has cut really well. So, let's just go over here to the Cricut. And what I want to do >> is just come over here. On the Cricut, we're just going to go other materials. And we're going to search acetate. Um, and then what we'll do is find acetate, and we're going to do more pressure. All right. So, we have acetate, more pressure, and then we'll be able to come over to our machine like so. We're going to load this in just like this. And then we'll be able to switch out the blades. So, we're going back to the finepoint blade. So, we'll open that up, place it in here, and now we'll be able to press that flashing Cricut. And how many passes do we think it's going to do? Okay, moment of truth. Oh. Oh, the finepoint blade is looking good. Okay, Cricket, come on. Let's go, Cricket. Woohoo! Two passes. Is it going to pop off the mat? I'm not Listen, I'm not Oh. Oh, okay. It's kind of popping off. Okay, let's look. Oh, boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Cricket. Looks good. Looks good. Okay, that's pretty impressive. All right, guys. What did you guys think? I had so much fun. This is crazy. I mean, from the fabric, I am just blown away by the Brother Scan and Cut Cricket. What's happening? the wood veneer brothers can cut. I I hate to say it, but it did really good. Even notice that we had to just think about this. We had to change blades for the Cricut and we had to tell it what material we're cutting. And then this material did really good. So, the acetate setting on here, finepoint blade, auto detection. With Brother Scan and Cut, you're not having to you're not having to think about anything. You're just having to have fun. you're just having to tell it what to do, which is I think the shockingest part of this whole video. I'm like, wait, if this is technology out there, why is Cricut not trying to do that? Because like, how helpful would it be if it could just detect how many passes that my card stock needed or my um fabric needed or my wood needed or like any of that. so we're not the ones having to always remember and like kind of like hack the system and like find the right settings and find the right pressure and things like that. I would love to learn more about how Brother even does that because you could tell it was like pressing and testing and I think that's the most intriguing part. Like I have always thought that the Brother Scan and Cut would be just for paper crafters, but as you've seen in this video, it can do a lot of things. The Brother Scan and Cut can do a lot of stuff. So be sure to leave me a comment. Let me know what else you want to try out on the Brother Scan and Cut. I think this video has been just so much fun to see what's happening, what's possible. I am really happy with the results of the Brother Scan and Cut. The Cricut did did not wow me cuz I've used all those materials, but even like head-to-head, the Brother Scan and Cut has some really good features that rival Cricut and I definitely see where you all are coming from. So, I'm slowly opening my eyes and seeing everything that's possible with the Brother Scan and Cut, which is phenomenal. Um, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, give me a thumbs up. Let me know if you like these head-to-head comparison videos. Like I said, I have usually strayed away from it, but I'm actually leaning in and having a lot of fun. So, if you have something you want me to uh review, do a comparison, let me know. I would love to share my thoughts, my opinions, and my findings with you. So, just let me know what that could be in the comments down below. Let's have a great conversation. And until then, uh, check out makerslearn.com to master all things crafting. See you guys soon. Bye, guys.