If any of you have a member of the family that sews, or especially quits, you may have seen one of these. A rotary cutter. It's used to cut fabric, think ultra sharp pizza cutter. (She also has a circle cutter model that works great on gasket material.) My wife uses it to cut large pieces of fabric into smaller ones for quilting, only to sew them back into larger ones again...??? Anyway, the blades are tungsten steel and rather expensive. Trying to show my shop can be useful, I said those could probably be sharpened. Mounted it on a mandrel in the lathe and tried to put a edge back on it. Everything I tried failed. Stones, wetdry paper, even diamond stones. All the above just held by hand on the rotating blade. Once in while it may have improved some, but nothing close to what a new one is. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John
Thanks,
John
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