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gimpy

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Good Day Folks, I was wondering how you make your seam rippers,
I took notice that on 2-6-2011 "Jimm1" is showing some he made and
it looks like he took seam rippers with with the plastic ends and removed them.

Looking for ways to make these, and assistance is greatly appreciated
 
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I made two, one for me, and one for a sewing sister. I claim to be 4th generation tailor. Anyhow, I like the kit with the scissors on the other end. It seemed appropriate to make one out of micarta IMG_3144.JPGIMG_3145.JPGIMG_3146.JPG
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When I first started making Seam Rippers I did very similar to what carlmorrell did on his ends, tapered down. I sell lots of these in Hawaii and I was getting complaints from some of my customers, customers. The complaint that I heard the most often was that when the user tried to rip a seam their fingers slid off the tapered end. So I went to a dog bone style and haven't heard a peep about it again. My customer in Hawaii buys close to 100 of these a year for his store and they seem to do pretty well for him. He's got another load of Koa headed my way next week to start on another order of various items. I do like the Micarta though.
 
wolf creek knives said:
When I first started making Seam Rippers I did very similar to what carlmorrell did on his ends, tapered down. I sell lots of these in Hawaii and I was getting complaints from some of my customers, customers. The complaint that I heard the most often was that when the user tried to rip a seam their fingers slid off the tapered end. So I went to a dog bone style and haven't heard a peep about it again. My customer in Hawaii buys close to 100 of these a year for his store and they seem to do pretty well for him. He's got another load of Koa headed my way next week to start on another order of various items. I do like the Micarta though.
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Funny, never heard of the term "dogbone ends", but that is what I did, my curve is subtle.
 
Just a bit of a notch for ergonomics (this is a bit less of a notch than I usually do, I blame that rando thumbprint in the pic).
Not really shown in the pic is where I sanded one side down to be flat in order to slow down it's tendency for rolling.

Another thing I do that I picked up from here is to swap out the colors of each end so there is a visual cue as to which side is which.

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Very nice work. On a somewhat related subject, I noticed that "Diamond Art" is a very popular hobby (mainly for women). I am pretty sure that one of our suppliers sells the kits that make the pens (they are called pens too, but serve a different function). I do not know what that demand is for these pens, but it could be another source of business for us penturners.
 
Nice selection of wood. My late BIL made quilts. I gave him a seam ripper from Woodcraft. Said it was the sharpest he had used.
 
Darios said:
Just a bit of a notch for ergonomics (this is a bit less of a notch than I usually do, I blame that rando thumbprint in the pic).
Not really shown in the pic is where I sanded one side down to be flat in order to slow down it's tendency for rolling.

Another thing I do that I picked up from here is to swap out the colors of each end so there is a visual cue as to which side is which.

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How do you finish the sanded side?
 
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