Have you changed your rotary blade recently?
04-08-2011, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Dooneygone
I am so frustrated after I sent in two pxs of my first tee-shirt quilt. I followed the directions carefully (or so I thought) and all I see when I look into "My posts" is a thumbnail px of the quilt and a download to do for the back of the quilt. The thumbnail is not elargeable. I have no idea what when wrong. Worse yet, when I went so proudly to find my quilt picture, all I see are beautiful LARGE pictures of other quilts. Does anyone have any ideas what I might have done wrong or is it because I took the px with an iphone and sent it to my email on the computer????
04-08-2011, 12:13 PM
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In general I change my blade after 2 medium quilts, 3 small quilts, or 1-2 large quilts. Getting the blades at Harbor Freight brings the price down to about $1.50 each or so, and I can afford to throw them away for that!!
Also try sharpening them with those little hand turned gadgets. They work OK, but you'll never get the original sharpness back with it.
Also try sharpening them with those little hand turned gadgets. They work OK, but you'll never get the original sharpness back with it.
04-08-2011, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jillaine
Ah sweet joy!
Why on earth did I wait so long to change thee?
Why on earth did I wait so long to change thee?
BUT - what do you do with the old blades? How do you dispose of them??
04-08-2011, 12:39 PM
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Maybe I should try sharpening my each time I use it. Otherwise I think the sharpeners are useless.
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Some will want to choke me but I change the rotary blade at the first skip! I don't want the hassle of cutting twice when all I need is to use a new blade. I use the Grace blade sharpener before every cutting session so I'm always sharpening a sharp blade. When it skips I don't mess with sharpening it any longer.
04-08-2011, 12:39 PM
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Maybe I should try sharpening my each time I use it. Otherwise I think the sharpeners are useless.
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Some will want to choke me but I change the rotary blade at the first skip! I don't want the hassle of cutting twice when all I need is to use a new blade. I use the Grace blade sharpener before every cutting session so I'm always sharpening a sharp blade. When it skips I don't mess with sharpening it any longer.
04-08-2011, 12:41 PM
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I dispose of mine with in and old container (small plastic coffee container, or any small tin), and in my cubbord I have a small red sharps container from a friend who works in a dentist office. It will take me lifetime to fill it, LOL.
04-08-2011, 03:13 PM
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I had given up using my Martelli cutter after cracking 2 blades in it then I saw something that explained the notches on the Olfa blades. The Martelli cutter doesn't have a tension spring like the Olfa cutters do so it wobbles if you use the notched blades. Big Duh! moment for me. I snatched up some un-notched Fiskars blades for it at Joann's a few weeks ago and put my little red baby back to work and just went to town cutting up flannel scraps. I was stiff & sore that evening! I was enjoying my old gadget so much I didn't realize how long I worked. There is no way I could have cut up all my flannel scraps with one of my Olfa cutters in a single session.
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