Bushwalk Australia

Are there any preferred models/companies that anyone has found durable based on anyone's real world experience?
Might see if I can hunt one down. Will be cutting anything from Argon to Cordura.
If you know an Oz stockist that would be good too.
I have good scissors -I'm not after them.
Ta G

I bought one then stuffed it on first use stupidly cutting along the edge of a metal ruler. Now I just use a metal ruler and a box cutter.

Spotlight have quite a few versions. I don't use one so no comment on quality. But should be easy to see in person now. Or have delivered.

Anything with the word (marketing) Titanium on it should be ok. Blades are expensive. I think one would be handy for lightweight fabrics like argon. Durability wise the Fiskars one I got was solid enough but the blades won't last long on tough synthetic fabrics. I cut quite a lot of DCF, X-Pac, pack cloth, cordura etc using a aluminium ruler with a rubber strip on its underside and a box cutter. DCF eats blades for breakfast....

I use a cheap rotary cutter for lightweight fabrics and netting. For heavier materials that don't distort and stay in place a steel rule and box cutter is fine.

Addition: for uncoated fabrics I often use a soldering iron and straight edge with cement sheet underneath - I always heat seal the edges of uncoated fabrics and tape.

Petew wrote:I bought one then stuffed it on first use stupidly cutting along the edge of a metal ruler.

Youch.

Meant to say I have a box type cutter and it's fine. Razor sharp.
Yep, Ta Pete, Fiskars and Clover keep popping up and as you said the cost/attrition of wheels is steep.

My wife is a Quilter. She and her friends get me to regularly supply whole cutter and spare blades from Aliexpress (China). Prices are much cheaper than Spotlight, for example, and I get spare blades 20 at a time. Delivery times can run out to 30 days or so occasionally. The quilters all use plastic rulers of various dimensions, clear and marked with grids. The clear ruler and marked grids make consistent sewing allowance margins easy to achieve. The rulers are typically 3 mm thick.

Ticklebelly wrote:My wife is a Quilter. She and her friends get me to regularly supply whole cutter and spare blades from Aliexpress (China). Prices are much cheaper than Spotlight, for example, and I get spare blades 20 at a time.

Gave up on the rotary cutter-going old school for the minute with the scissors. Needing mats and all that other crap put me off.