How do you take out stitching nicely but quickly?

[Dottonedan]

How do you take out stitching nicely but quickly?

Need to re-use this Polo if I can. Having a time getting it undone.  Do we have better ways for this rather than pricking each thread?

[T Shirt Farmer]

Magic wand right here... you will still have perforation holes and need to do your best to land new name over the old one

http://www.peggysstitcheraser.com/products.html

[mk162]

it's a gildan, if you did the embroidery, it's probably not worth it to take the name out.  If you paid to have it embroidered, then it might be worth it.  You have to look at how much time vs the cost of a new shirt.

[Denis Kolar]

http://www.amazon.com/Wahl-Professional-8685-Classic-Clipper/dp/B00011K2BA

That is pretty much the same thing. It takes the same blades. Peggy's blade is shorter version of Wahls (to cut closer to the fabric)
I bought Peanut and I git Peggy's blade. If I need it for hair cutting, I just switch blades

[Dottonedan]

Interesting.  I have several hair cutting clippers. (Dog groomer in a past life) and I cut my neighbors dogs hair for them.

I may try that. I have a few 5 blades. Maybe that will work better.

GREAT!  see it pays to post questions.


Yes, I paid someone else to have these done. It was provided to us as Roger and needed to be Rodger.  Rodgers is now correct and to him. This one will be for one other guy (same size) that would like one with no name so it would save me on the left chest logo as well.

I been picking at this thing for about an hour and it's going slow.

CLIPPERS!

[mk162]

regular clippers don't work as well at all...I know, my parents were too cheap to spend the coin on the stitch eraser

[inkman996]

Like Brad said beard trimmers etc will not work well at all. The tool you have is a great tool for clean  up but for a whole name forget about it. nWith out a stitch eraser you can do it old school, use a very very sharp exacto blade and basically drag it across the stitches on the back side always perpendicular to the stitch direction, its hard to explain but it works with practice I know thats how we used to do it before Peggy.

After cutting the threads and cleaning out you should have the underlay still showing thats when you use that tool you have safer than the sharp exacto getting that close to the fabric.

[Gilligan]

Yeah, Underlay sucks... as well as Tanami sitching.  You just better off getting a new shirt with that stuff.  But a basic satin stitch can be pulled out fairly easily with the Stitch Eraser or a razor.

It will still leave marks... might not be as noticeable on that material but I'm betting it will.  If you go over it with a name it hides it pretty well though.

[mk162]

you can also wash the shirt, that works well for fixing the shadow of the name

[Denis Kolar]

Peggy's stitch eraser IS Wahl Peanut with different plastic on the outside and modified blade.
Hirsch was selling Peanuts when I bought my machine and not Peggy's.

[inkman996]

Damn DK you are onto something here. Check the link below and tell me that's not Peggy except a different print on it! I wonder if there is any mod to the blades at all? If not then that trimmer is a hell of a lot cheaper than a Peggy.

http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=210441405&sellerid=20486793

[Gilligan]

It's not "cordless" but that is probably a good thing in the long run.

[Denis Kolar]

Damn DK you are onto something here. Check the link below and tell me that's not Peggy except a different print on it! I wonder if there is any mod to the blades at all? If not then that trimmer is a hell of a lot cheaper than a Peggy.

http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=210441405&sellerid=20486793

Get that and replacement blade for Peggy's, and you are good to go

[mk162]

Yeah, you might save a buck, but you are talking about a 1 time purchase since the peggy comes with a replacement blade.  I am not going to worry about saving $30 or $40 on a purchase I will probably never have to make again.

And I am about the cheapest guy out there.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

We just use Pam.




But she is usually the one who screwed it up in the first place.