The quick ripper
 

Has anyone tried this seam ripper. It's battery powered and had a few good reviews, no bad ones. I saw it on Amazon. It's a little expensive at 15.49. But if it works and saves time ripping, which I do more than I want to admit, Lol, then it might be worth it. What do you think?

I bought one, and it works nicely. I did find that I changed batteries more often than I would like. So I bought a Wahl Peanut. I no longer have to replace batteries which upped the cost over the long term. They both work very well. I prefer the one I plug in. It never failed, that when I had a long seam to rip, the batteries always died before I was done or got so weak that I had to get out a manual ripper to finish. Now, I do not have to keep a big batch of batteries on hand.

The WHAL Peanut cost more at first, but soon pays for it self. Best I have used. I got mine on Amazon or ebay.

I have one but when I posted about it here, I got ridiculed for not buying a mustache trimmer instead. Luckily I'm used to that so I don't care but I like mine.

Not abut to pay $15. for a seam ripper. I have more than a dozen. would rather get a good ruler or better yet more fabric.

Why did you quote me when you said that? I was not asking the question.

I bought one at a quilt show, it was my special purchase for the show. And it does work well. A friend said it looked like a mustache trimmer to her, and she is right, but I was there and it looked cool. They said it does not cut into the fabric and that is not totally true, I had trouble when I was trying to remove decorative stitches. But I do like it if i have a lot to unsew.

I bought one at a recent quilt show, and believe it or not, I have yet to use the thing regularly, although it does work very well! However, the price you're quoting is really good... I paid over $20 at the show (she admits sheepishly). :)

It really does come in handy especially on long straight seams - however it is a mustache/beard trimmer and you can probably find one cheaper at wally world

I bought the one at the quilt show, cost over 20.00. I peeled off the sticker, it was a Whal that Amazon has for half the price. New use, higher price. Like Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute and I was one.

I do use it and you have to be careful, it will cut your fabric (I did it).

I have one and like it as jeank said I did cut my fabric once. I now tilt it up a bit.

Thank you ladies so much for the review! Sounds like I need to look into the mustache trimmers instead or maybe the peanut. I have never heard of that one.
Gale I'm so sorry that you were made to feel bad about your trimmer. Sometimes words come across more harshly than might have been meant. I can't say. I just hope you won't give up on the board. There are so many wonderful people here. Makes up for the few that come across a bit rude sometimes.

No worries-I've been here forever (seems like) and quit for a while when they moved the board but came back eventually. I've been abused worse here. I can take it. lol. thanks!

I have one, kept it in the package thinking I should not have gotten it. Then my friend said it was her new favorite gadget, that's all it took - out of the package it came. I love it use it all the time. I still have original batteries in mine. But, I also have nipped the fabric.

Thanks cindyb, if I get one, ill be careful.

Gale, :)...

One has to be so careful when removing a sewn seam especially if you want to reuse the fabric. I just take my F&P and cut about every five or six stitch. Then when done, I just gently pull on the remain thread on back and it comes out so nicely. I even have even learned to clip the thread on the fabric I will NOT be using again and then there are no little threads I have to pick out. Works great for me.

I do this too, although it doesn't always work the way I want it to.

I have had mine for a couple of years. I love it!

Love mine, turning it upside down seems to eliminate the fabric cutting problem.

I put an entire,,,, yes entire baby quilt together wrong. It was a mess, I remembered they had this little seam ripper at my LQS. I ran and bought it. Worked great!!! Took the entire quilt apart in a short time. Then I remade the quilt! I love my little ripper!! My batteries have never been changed in a year. So it was worth the price for me!

Mike's girl, I have one that I purchased at a quilt show a couple or three years ago and I love it! I'm glad that it is battery operated so that I don't have to rely on an outlet. I placed a rechargeable battery in it, and the battery has yet to need recharging. I use it a lot, unfortunately! It saves a lot of time when 'unsewing.' I highly recommend it if you have to do much ripping.

I know how you feel. It really irks me when I buy something and get told you wasted your money you could have bought this or made do with that. Like I didn't know. I do know that's why I bought it. I wanted the one I bought not the make do or substitute version. The mustache trimmer was made for cutting hair and it will cut fabric. I have proof of that. The one made for cutting threads is much gentler and not so easy to cut the fabric. That's why I buy the tool made for the job.

I have one and love it. I have cut my fabric with it, but I have done that with my regular seam ripper.

Love it and batteries never died for me.

I went online and bought a men's beard trimmer for $7 and change and it works really good. Have had it over a year and haven't changed the batteries yet.

I find it works better this way also.

I have one and have had it over a year and am still on the same battery. I love it and have had no problems with it cutting the fabric. Used it also when taking feather stitches out that I had long armed and area and didn't like how it turned out. What a life saver.

I bought one about 3 years ago. I absolutely love it and it will replace it with a new one if it ever dies. It travels with me wherever I go to sew. Once I forgot it when we left to go camping in the woods for 6 weeks in our 5th wheel. I got into a situation where I needed it bad, so I tried my husbands beard trimmer. It did the job but not near as well. I am considering buying another one just to keep in the 5th wheel. To me it is a necessity, just like my rotary cutter. Sure, I can cut with scissors if I have to, but why would I "want" to.

I don't worry if I buy something at a quilt show that I find cheaper after the fact - I look at that item as my souvenir from the show. Rationalize where you can, ladies!

I think I am your twin,,HUGS

I love my quick ripper $15-$20 BFD what is that in the grand scheme of things. Nice regular seam rippers are what $3 each, get dull and have to be replaced, and who only has 1 so I bought less fabric that month I would absolutly do it again it has saved me hours of time and frustration. I've had it for 9 months or longer and have not needed to change the battery yet. A couple of weeks ago I used it to remove several rows of my poor quilting way better than picking each stitch one by one.

I am a bit embarrased to say I have had one for years ....I bought it to "erase" embroidery ooppss! I wasn't super impresses with it although it worked fairly well on woven fabric it was horrible on knits. So guess I need to get out my new (old) Wahl stitch eraser and see if I like it for quilt reverse stitching. Sue

When I first heard about these seam rippers, I thought it looked just like my neck trimmer so I tried it. I really love it for long seam removal. I live in a small town and the only way I can get sewing/quilting notions is on-line or a 80 mile round trip to Joanna. I have a Gingher seam ripper that I like but mostly I use a double edge razor blade with painter's tape over one edge (which is what us old timers used to use).

I seen it but have not bought it..

Hey! I love being on a board where people have to rip out seams. I know some people who claim they don't even own seam rippers, but they fall into the same category with people who never burned a pan of cookies, baked a cake that fell, or had a fight with their husbands. froggyintexas

Hahaha either they are big fat liars or have never sewn a seam, baked cookies or a cake and they are single..
third option is they are unicorns :-)

There is another option to 'never ripping a seam' - throw it away and do-over. Works for me especially if the stitches are 18-20 per inch. Of course do-overs won't work if it's a looooong seam and you're sewing two columns of blocks together in the final step of your quilt. That's when I my rechargable neck trimmers come in handy.

I have it, and I love it. I bought it about four months ago and the batteries are still going, maybe getting good batteries it will last longer.

I love mine and believe it still has the original battery - but I have had it for at least 3 years. The first time I saw it I passed on it, thought it was a luxury item and not needed. But the more I quilted the more it made sense. So the following year I went to the show, and when I found it belong demonstrated I bought it. The friend with me said it looked like a mustache trimmer to her - I had never seen a mustache trimmer, my husband always used scissors - so I thought I wasn't going to wait another year if she was wrong so paid my $16.00 and went home with it. That's part of the fun going to the shows is getting something new.

It works well, I have nicked fabric on those times I used a very tight stitch - but have done that with my manual rippers too.

I'd create problems I couldn't fix if I had a fast ripper.

reset your stitch count. I very seldom throw anything away