My husband has adhesive sandpaper for his shopsmith. He made me replacement disks...

I Have one and hate it. Don't waste your money.

Carole

I have one, and I kind of like it. I get a little more mileage out of the blades with it, but it definitely does not make them "like new" again. I've been thinking I would try to replace the sharpening disks on it with some emery cloth to see if it would sharpen better. I think the concept is good, but the design could use a little work.

I have one and like it. The trick is (a)don't cut yourself & (b) be sure to turn the blade over and sharpen both sides of the blade. You also have to use both sides of the sanding disks, so that means 15 revolutions; turn over for 15 more revolutions; & repeat on the other side of the sanding disks, so yes, that means a total of 60 revolutions. No, it's not the same as a new blade, but it sure gives a new life to the old ones. Wait for a 40 or 50% off sale, and then get one. BTW, you need to get one for each size blade you use, so no, you cannot sharpen a 28mm blade on a 60 mm sharpener.

I am so glad I read this. I was planning a trip to Hancock Fabric this weekend and a blade sharpener was on my list of things to buy. Since my local fabric store charged me $35.99 for a pack of 5 blades, I thought I might see if I could make them last longer. But this will not be one of the options.

I have tried one too; actually I was at a retreat and a quilt store was a "guest" there so I bought one from her and it didn't work for ____ so she took it back; no questions. It was way worse than b/4 I tried to sharpen it. Also, if you have a JoAnn's or at your Hancock, use a 40% off coupon to buy your blades or when they have their quilting notions on sale. Helps a lot! I sure wish I could find a tried and true method to give new life to old blades though.

In the Fall 2010 Keepsake Quilting catalog, page 117, they show some new acrylic rulers with a "diamond-powdered-encrusted edge" that's supposed to sharpen your cutter as you use it. Then, onpage 122, they show 2 different types of blade sharpeners. I have the one mentioned before that has the sanpaper discs and I'm not thrilled with it. Either I waited too long to try to sharpen my blade, or it just doesn't work the way I had hoped it would. (Now I know why it was on clearance - LOL) I don't know if the other ones in the catalog are any better, but I'm leary now. Think I'll just replace them with ones from Harbor Freight.

Who is Harbor Freight or why them?

Harbor Freight is a hardware type store. They sell carpet cutting blades that fit the rotary cutters. There are several posts on the boards about them. They sell blades that fit the 45mm cutter $1.99 for a pack of 2. Sometimes in the weekly sale flyers there is a coupon for 20% off. I haven't tried them but the posts on here speak very highly of them.