What a difference this made🥰
09-19-2022, 02:59 AM
#31
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Posts: 3,798
I change blades so often it's not even funny, or so it seems. My old blades and dull needles are dropped into an old empty Kraft Parmesan cheese container and stored on my cutting table until it's full. I get a new container and start all over again.
09-21-2022, 10:29 AM
#34
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Join Date: Jul 2021
Posts: 357
Originally Posted by QuiltE
''Totally agree .... dates really tell us nothing, as to when we need to change a blade. Old worn cutting mats can impede the "cut like butter" ability. Just got a new cutting mat and oh what a difference it makes to the ease of cutting and how long my blades will now last!
Like Tartan, I keep a rotary cutter with an old blade and marked as such. Works great for paper and such.
Used blades, pins, needles all go into a piggy bank that just happened to have the right slot size for the blades to go through. It'll be a long time before it will need emptying. Only wish I had put a date on as to when I started it, just for curiosity's sake!
Like Tartan, I keep a rotary cutter with an old blade and marked as such. Works great for paper and such.
Used blades, pins, needles all go into a piggy bank that just happened to have the right slot size for the blades to go through. It'll be a long time before it will need emptying. Only wish I had put a date on as to when I started it, just for curiosity's sake!
09-21-2022, 01:34 PM
#35
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,411
Originally Posted by SusieQOH
One of my worst habits is not changing blades often enough. A new blade is so nice!
09-21-2022, 08:04 PM
#36
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,833
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I put my old blades in the plastic container the new ones came in - but I have " used" written on the top and bottom of the container.
Leslie
09-28-2022, 03:06 PM
#37
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Beautiful Hood River Valley
Posts: 22
Originally Posted by Tartan
It will cut like butter….until you hit your first pin. I have an old rotary cutter that I keep old blades for, for cutting paper and card stock.
