Dritz vs Omnigrid cutter

Wendy: My cutters are all Fiskars or Olfa. BUT I remember someone
who told of a major safety problem with a pressure sensitive
cutter, a Dritz IIRC. Seems the person dropped the cutter and it
fell on her foot with enough pressure to expose the blade and cut
her foot! UGH! Wouldn't DD1 do well enough with a regular cutter
and constant vigilance? I've trained my self to *close* the
cutter as soon as I finish a cut. Same way most of us are trained
to buckle up as soon as we enter a vehicle.
PAT in VA/USA

frood wrote:

Both Dritz and Omnigrid make a pressure-sensitive rotary cutter - safety
guard in place automatically, retracts to cut. I want to get one of these
cutters for DD. Anybody have one of these? Anybody know the advantages of
one brand over the other?

I do remember that, but IMNHO, I think the danger of dropping it on one's
foot is slim - first you'd have to drop it, then it would have to land on
your foot. On the other hand, if you don't close it, and just brush past it
grabbing the next FQ to cut, you've cut yourself. Knowing DD the way I do, I
think this is a far more real danger to her. I have talked this over with
her, and she really wants one with a retractable blade, too.

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"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
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Wendy: My cutters are all Fiskars or Olfa. BUT I remember someone
who told of a major safety problem with a pressure sensitive
cutter, a Dritz IIRC. Seems the person dropped the cutter and it
fell on her foot with enough pressure to expose the blade and cut
her foot! UGH! Wouldn't DD1 do well enough with a regular cutter
and constant vigilance? I've trained my self to *close* the
cutter as soon as I finish a cut. Same way most of us are trained
to buckle up as soon as we enter a vehicle.
PAT in VA/USA

frood wrote:

Both Dritz and Omnigrid make a pressure-sensitive rotary cutter - safety
guard in place automatically, retracts to cut. I want to get one of
these
cutters for DD. Anybody have one of these? Anybody know the advantages
of
one brand over the other?

I've tried both of those, and the Olfa one that works similarly, and i prefer the
Olfa. Less pressure on my poor tendonitis prone hands. I think it's more a personal
preference, and that it would help for you to be able to use one for a while so you
can compare for youself.

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"frood" wrote in message
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Both Dritz and Omnigrid make a pressure-sensitive rotary cutter - safety
guard in place automatically, retracts to cut. I want to get one of these
cutters for DD. Anybody have one of these? Anybody know the advantages of
one brand over the other?

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Wendy
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