Originally Posted by adorabowe
Hi!
I bought my Olfa 45mm rotary cutter about 4 months ago, but right from the beginning it was a bit blunt. I'm still not sure it's my method but I feel like I have to use quite a bit of force or go over the same area 2 or 3 times before I can get a cut without any thread pulling. I thought I might have just bought a dud blade so I replaced it with a generic blade but that was even worse! It felt fine for the 3 or 4 cuts but after that it was blunt as well.
Anyway I was just wondering if it's likely to just be my method (I cut kneeling down mostly) or if it's possible it's my rotary mat? I bought the cheapest/largest one I could afford and it didn't specify whether it was self-healing but I'm thinking it's not. Could the mat be blunting my blades as soon as I use them?
I have been using my olfa 60mm cutter for over a year without changing the blade. It has always had a skip in it, and being new to this, I thought it was just me. Well, today I started using my new olfa 45 mm cutter and WOW, what a difference. No skips and so much easier to use. I did not want to have to buy 60 mm blades so bought the 45 mm on sale; hubby got me a pkg of 45 mm blades because they were cheaper than the 60 mm. Guess I need to change blades more often.