Hold it at the same angle & pressure thru the whole cut.

(Hope that helps...I've never had a problem tho' so can't say for sure.)

Suzi

Is your cutting mat on a solid surface? Sometimes when I put mine on the carpet (when I'm too lazy to walk to the kitchen), it does the same thing.

Mary

Under really good, bright light check the blade. Is there a burr or dull spot on it that's preventing that area from cutting? If so, invest another $5.99 in a new blade before you make yourself crazy with frustration. I don't know any way to sharpen a razor blade.

It sure is maddening when that happens, isn't it?

Make sure you have only 1_ blade in it.The way they package the blades,they sometimes stick together and is hard to see,until they don't cut properly and you take it apart to check the blade.BE VERY CAREFUL DOING THIS !!!!
Kathi

Sandie, did you figure it out? If you hit anything except the fabric, like a pin or the edge of your ruler, it can make a nick in the blade that will make it skip every time it rolls around. Or if you cut in the same places on your mat, it can get a cut in it that the blade might slip into that might make it skip.

Donna

THANK YOU SEEEEEEEW MUCH!!!!!!!!!
Finally got the darn thing to work. It was probably a combination of all your hints, as I tryed all of them.
You saved my sanity. (What I have left anyway!)
Sandie in NC

It takes about 7.4" for a 60mm cutter to complete one rotation. If you're skipping is about that far apart than there's a chance your blade is at fault. I've also had skipping when my mat was at fault - always skipped at the same marking on the mat.

Do you happen to be a lefty? Rotary cutters are beveled in a way that makes them not work correctly if you are. Supposedly, you can take off the blade and turn it around so it will work, but I have never been able to make a rotary cutter work in my left hand no matter how much I fooled with it. So I use my trusty lefty shears, the best gift I ever got, from a beloved aunt.

I use the Ergo Rotary cutter. It doesn't hurt my hand as much as the regular one. There is also one for left handed cutters.

Here is a link that might be useful: martelli

I''ve used the rotary cutters for years and years, yet I was having problems with a brand new blade today and couldn't figure what the problem was, so I went on line to see if there was a possibility of manufacturing defects and came across this site and read the posts but it was kathi_mdgd that got me looking much closer and lo and behold I did have 2 blades. Yet I had been so careful taking what I thought was only one out of the package. what a relief, as I couldn't cut the cotton, the blade just seemed to drag. Thanks Kathi and all of you. I just love my Olfa cutters, have many different ones, and wouldn't part with them.

I'm glad someone mentioned having 2 blades in the cutter. It happened to me a few weeks a go. I had changed the blade and it just didn't cut well. After a day or 2 with this new blade, I decided to take it apart and found that I had 2 blades stuck together. I buy them in packs of 5 and they're coated in oil, so they were apparently stuck together so well I couldn't tell that there were 2 until I looked closely.

I just bought a single blade last night to cut some cotton strips for a baby quilt. The blade skips every few inches! So frustrating! I've not gotten one 'clean cut' at all!! I was replacing a blade that I believed must be old because it was doing the exact same thing! I'm using a quilt cutting board on my granite counter top, so some of the problems suggested above, don't apply. And, of course, I threw the packaging away!

Nanaculp, I just had exactly this same problem (including the granite counter top) -- tearing my hair out!!

I am having exactly the same problem. Bought replacement blade because the old one wasn't cutting well. The new one is skipping constantly and making me absolutely nuts. I, too, did not keep the package, but am pretty sure I only purchased one. I'll take it apart to check but if that's not it, I'm thinking there's a quality control issue at Olfa from so many of the same complaints.

We were having the same problem and tried new cutters, new blades, new mat, hand angle, pressure, lefty vs righty. Turned out to be something else - speed. It skipped when we went too slowly. When we went faster, skipping went away.