Camping Betty

How do you keep the rotary blades sharp? I tried the sharpener thingies but doesnt seem to work for me. I use lots of blades when I am quilting and they get expensive.

Quilt4u

Try cutting tinfoil with them. It works for me.

Camping Betty

Thanks I will try that soon as I get back to my reg home. I am in the prosess of packing up the camper and going home for the winter, Yea back to my sewing room!!!!!!!!!!!

pocoellie

Go to houseofhanson.com, you can get blades VERY reasonable there.

joeyoz

When they get a little dull, I flip the blade and get a little more wear out of them. Then I just throw away and put a new one. Sharpening has never worked for me.

Here is a link for blades online if that will help. Good prices.

http://www.lpsharp.com/3.html

Yarn or Fabric

I bought a huge lot of them on Ebay - all olfa blades. I want to say I got 100 blades for like $50 or so - a few friends of mine and I went in on the purchase :)

Camping Betty

Gee that was a good buy

joeyoz

WOW! I'll have to check there myself. Thanks. :wink:

bearisgray

have any of you had trouble with a brand new Olfa blade skipping like ONE thread ??

Camping Betty

I checked e-bay and ended up biding on more fabric lol