Yes and it took me so long to get back into cutting that my husband even cut the tips out of a pair of gloves for me because I was so scared of the blad. I just changed the blade and was cutting 2.5" strips when I bought the blade up from making the last cut somewhow it went across my topknockle and my finger and blood ws everywhere. We could not stop the bleeding so I had to go to the er and he put 4 stitches in it. He said it was not big but deep. And really it was very hard to keep the stitches in over the knockle they kept coming undone but it took awhile to heel but is better now and I still cut with fingerless gloves...