To prevent a second cutting blade restoration means from interfering with a main body and a ratchet pawl, etc., to smoothly cut a cable, to perform compacting and to reduce the number of part items.

Relating to this cutter 1, a first cutting blade 2 provided on the tip part of a main body 4 provided with a handle 3 and a second cutting blade 5 are pivotally attached by a short shaft 6, a circular-arcuate ratchet tooth 28 is formed at the base end part of the second cutting blade 5, the ratchet mechanism 8 is constituted by pivotally attaching the ratchet pawl 31 engaged with the ratchet tooth 28 to an operation handle 7 pivotally attached to the main body 4 and the second cutting blade 5 is intermittently turned by the opening and closing operation of the handles 3 and 7. In this case, a circular- arcuate oblong hole 29 whose center is the short shaft 6 is provided on the base part of the second cutting blade 5, the tip connection part 10A of a second cutting blade restoration operation link 10 whose one end is pivotally attached to the side of the operation handle 7 is connected to a pin 42 loosely fitted to the oblong hole 29 and the link 10 is made to be along the outer side of the side of the operation handle 7.