Originally Posted by marknfran
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.
Go to Harbor Freight, or you can go to their store online and buy blades. They are called Carpet Cutter Blades and they come with 2 blades in a package and it depends on where your at they cost is between $1.49 and $1.99. They fit 45mm cutters. Thats what alot of us are using these days. ;)