I had a miserable time getting perfect cut strips. I bought the Shape Cutter, I still messed up some strips. I bought the Alto2 Cutting Sytem, never have gotten the same size in mulitple cuts from that. I decided to just buy jelly rolls and not cut strips. Ha. I bought the Accuquilt Go die cut machine and strip die. WooHoo! perfect cut strips every time! Of course if I want a size strip I don't have the die for then it's back to hit and miss. But most strips I need are 2 1/2 or 1 1/2 and now there is a 3 1/2 die.