Electric seam ripper..cost comparison
 

There is an electric seam ripper out there that quilters are paying $21.00 for on Amazon.

You can get the same machine (The one I use to trim my horse!) without the fancy name for $7.99 by buying a Wahl Pocket Pro.


Here's a video about how it works, and she is using the Wahl that I use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4dJfEPylYE

Watson

That's amazing!!!!! And thanks for the heads up, although I needed it a couple of months ago haha
Now if they could only invent a self-cleaning floor :D

I have one of those. Buried on a shelf somewhere in my sewing stuff. Too bad I never remember it and use my pointy seam ripper instead. Think I'll go find it now......;)

If you have a horse supply store nearby you can also get them there so you don't have to wait for delivery
Watson

Thank you Watson for sharing this information. I hope our local Tractor Supply carries this item.

Betty...they do, but they are the same price as those quilting ones.... That's crazy! Look at other tack shops. I can get them for less than $10.00 in Canada.


Watson

I bought a nose trimmer at Wallworld. Have used for ever, but be careful because if you don't get right on the thread seam it will cut whatever!!!!

I have a Wahl I bought at the pet store! Not sure what I paid but definitely not $21.

I just looked it up on line at Tractor Supply; it is $9.99.

I was shocked when my friend came back from the quilting show with one of these and said that she paid $25.00. I didn't have the heart to tell her I got one from Walmart for $6.00. I checked under the company sticky logo that was on it and it was a Wahl Trimmer. As we have all said before, if an item is used for some hobby, you can expect it to double or triple in price or whatever the market can bear.

I have the same one shown in the video, and it was sold as a pet trimmer, for around dog's faces. I have used it for years, but not the way the video demonstrates. It works better if you anchor the other end of the seam, either with a clamp or at the edge of a drawer, or just between your knees. I always start the rip out by taking out a few stitches with the regular seam ripper. The same tool is sold as a men's mustache trimmer, but they get a few dollars more for it when it's named that. It certainly looks the same. You have to apply a drop of oil on the blades occasionally, and sometimes it has to be cleaned because lint accumulates when you do as much ripping as I do.

How about a self filling bobbin (while it is in the machine)?
We could think up a lot of neat inventions, couldn't we?

I bought one of these at Walmart, it is called a mustache & beard trimmer. It was only 7.99.

I did get one of these at a quilt show , I love it .

I got one at a quilt show and thought it was wonderful until it ate some fabric. Then I was more careful in how and what I was un-sewing. Then it died within a year. So I didn't bother to replace it - just bought a few of the standard seam rippers.

The one I bought is rechargeable.

Interesting.. I use a rotary cutter to rip my seams - the 18mm one that I got years ago. You have to be careful, but any thing you use to rip the seam can rip the fabric. I recently saw Eleanor Burns use her regular size rotary cutter to rip a seam on TV.