Originally Posted by sewitseams
i stopped at our harbor freight outlet last saturday. they had only one package of the blades and charged me $1.99. tried one when i got home. did not like it. i guess it didn't fit well in olfa handle or something, because it kept skipping . . . i tried two layers, four layers and six layers of fabric. it just would not work. oh well, so much for that "good deal".
I've been using a Harbor Freight "carpet cutter" for a little over two weeks (cutting fabric for two different quilts) and it still cuts like a hot knife through butter. I was fortunate to purchase 12 packages at $1.49 each package from two different HF stores, using a 20% off coupon! Bottom line, each package cost me (with tax) $1.29. I shared my bounty with the members of my bee.
Sewitseams, I don't mean to be a "smarta--", but did you put only one of the blades into your rotary cutter? The two blades in the package were a little difficult to separate. Belles