I use the one on my Brother quite often. It works well. I just like the threads clipped closer to the fabric. I don't want to have to go back and redo. My favorite tool for cutting the threads is more like a razor blade. I got it from a old-timely fabric store near us. It has a small magnifying glass and the blade in a plastic holder and only about 3/8" of the blade is exposed. The threads slide into the indention where the blade is exposed, gets them nice and close to the fabric and I don't have to worry about snipping the fabric along with the thread. Wish I could find another.

For those of you with the Janome 6600, I saw this tip on the yahoo group site. After using the auto thread cutter, you need to place the next piece of fabric under the needle and push the needle down button. If I remember, the problems are caused by trying to sew 'air' and not fabric.

I love mine and use it constantly.

HTH!

I use the thread cutter on my new 839 Bernina, it is wonderful, cuts it off right close and I just can move on to the next place that I want to sew, :thumbup:

I'm with Marjpf. I do use mine occasionally, find it convenient but as I'd probably go back and clip things nice and close anyhow, I just clip with small scissors I keep at my machine to start with.

I buy these little thread cutters. My local dealer carries them in his notions section. They're about the size of a thumbnail and they have a sticky back. I press them onto the back of my machine, behind the needle area. I have one on every one of my machines, and one on each machine in my classroom. They are really sharp and very handy.

you can buy a small cutter that will mount on the front or wherever you want to. It has a sticky tape on it. great for continious strip piecing. I have an automatic thread cutter on my new machine so I am spoiled. you can alway mount a seam ripper on something also if you have lot of things to cut apart.

My machine has done it since the day I bought it, and the models in the store did the same thing...I clean my machine regularly because I use a lot of flannel which tends to produce a lot of lint.

I have a 6600 and I love the tread cutter, but once in a while the thread jumps out of the tension take up leaver when I remember I twist it the opposite way on the lever. Some of the times the thread comes out of the needle, I have to retread it, thank God for the thread cutter. With my Baby Lock Ellangant 2 the thread cutter works fairly well. If the tension is not thight on the top thread it does not work the best. I agree the machines get really dirty fast . I wonder if it is the material now a days or the threads?

I don't use it becasue i feel like them seam is pulling when I cut the threads, so I always use a little scissors to cut the threads.

I don't have one.

I don't know how I would sew without the one on my Berninas.

I got a little stick on and it works pretty good.

All I own are vintage machines and the thread cutter comes off if I am going to earmark the machine for use in my studio. I can not tell you how many times I have cut my finger or hand on the stupid things and start bleeding on what I am working on.

To me they are a waste of time but in the early 1900's it was a neat new thing to have on a machine.

Billy

I have the same machine. Mine works fine but I don't always use it. Seems like it's set a bit higher on the side than I would like.

I have a Brother SE350 it is automatic just have to push the button on the front. I use it all the time.

Mine is on the front and works beautifully. I love it!
judee

My new bernina 830 has a little pair of scissors icon on the front of the sewing machine , when I finish sewing I just hit the little button and it cuts it right off, The thread cutters on the older machines I have are a real pain but now I am spoiled,the needle threader works great too, My eye sight is not what it used to be , so I do love it