Question for Die Cutter Users
#42
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bar Harbor, ME.
Posts: 2,911
Not worth it for me either. I've had it since shortly after it came out and I've only used it a few times for cutting out shapes for a wall-hanging. The one really good use we had for it was cutting out paper butterflies to be used in our son's wedding this past Saturday. Cutting out 125 by hand would have been really difficult.
#43
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern, Utah
Posts: 973
I have the go and like the few dies I have, but find the cost of the dies makes it hard to buy many. Of course I am on a fixed income and retired, so if you can afford them it's great. If not it's a waste.
#45
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Thornton, Colorado
Posts: 1,023
I bought my ACQ cutter back in 2009 and have not regretted it at all. Strip dies do a lot more than cutting just strips. Turn the strips crosswise and you can cut perfect squares, for example. There are helpful YouTube and video tutorials online. I now have osteoarthritis in both my hands (worse on the right hand) and recently sold the ACQ cutter and ordered the electric version (Go BIG). It is supposed to arrive by tonight. Dies can be purchased for less...check Joann Fabrics online for their periodic deals....once they had some on sale at 50% off. Hope it happens again for others. EBay and Amazon can have some good prices, too. I have been to a few quilt vendor shows where dies are sometimes discounted by vendors.
#48
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 7,312
I love my Go!, including the strip cutters. As Paper Princess wrote (post #5), the accuracy is the main reason. But last year I suffered a badly broken right arm right at the top of the humerus and had to have surgery. Since then it has been difficult for me to cut strips because of the stretching to cut WOF, something that had never bothered me before. I bless the strip cutters now!
#49
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,388
PaperPrincess and nanacc this is exactly the reason I have started hinting to my DH that I sure would like to have an electric cutter for my bday and Christmas (they are 5 days apart). The accuracy is what I would like to have.
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