Originally Posted by
dunster
Ouch - so sorry you are hurt. However, it sounds like you wouldn't have been wearing a glove at the time, even if you had one. I use the Dritz rotary cutter. Unless I'm actually using it, the blade is always retracted and unable to cut me. The blade comes out only when you press on the cutter.
3 of my rotary cutters are made this way and my olfa cutter has a slide up safety cover for when the blade is not in use. no finger cutting accidents for me yet but my rulers and templates show plenty of battle scars.