Pro Seam Rippers

[Gary Max]

Here's one of the products my wife makes.
Seam Rippers------nothing cheap about them----best sellers are the Rosewoods
Second pic shows you the tenon.
We try to make only the highest quality products---makes them easy to sell.

Funny story---but true
Lady walks in the booth and buys a seam ripper----makes the conment if you dropped the price to $5.00 you could sell more---we both laughed, and explained to her that we just raised the price trying to slow down the sales.

These are made in runs of a 100 at a time. The pic is of the last 27----time for Margie to make another batch.

Hope this helps all you folks who sent PM's------:biggrin:

 

[Paladin]

Pricing?

Nicely done. What do you sell them for?

 

[Gary Max]

We get a ten dollar bill for them. Marked them up from $8.00 to slow the sales down.

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Looking good Gary and @ $10 they are nicely priced to move.

 

[Gary Max]

You should see someone who belongs to a quilting club find them. We have sold as many as 20 at a time----makes a super gift for a friend.

 

[tim self]

Where are you buying the ripper part? I assume you're buying a plastic handled one and removing it. Nice idea.

 

[Gary Max]

Yup------we buy them by the 100 and toss the blue away.:biggrin:

We are talking about upgradeing our web site to a store and selling several items----this may be one of them.

Now all I have to do is make the time to get that project started.

 

[Woodlvr]

Very nice Gary. How long are the handles on your rippers?

 

[LEAP]

Nice, I've been making them for my wifes quilting club for a while. I also made some with the penn state file pen by removing the file and epoxying in the seam ripper.

 

[turbowagon]

how do you remove the tool from the plastic? Pliers? Or do you need to heat them?

- Joe

 

[Gary Max]

Joe----both

 

[jaywood1207]

Thanks for posting those Gary. I really like the looks of them.

 

[Gary Max]

Thanks Jamie-----the wife enjoys making them and the design works perfect.

 

[knifecut]

Saw some seam rippers at http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/22944573 that kept the plastic handles. also at http://community.woodmagazine.com/t5/Wood-Turning/Seam-Ripper/m-p/54206

 

[nava1uni]

Those pictures are Williams and are in another posted thread.

 

[glycerine]

how do you remove the tool from the plastic? Pliers? Or do you need to heat them?

- Joe

I actually picked up a few from Joanne's the other day so I could try this and I could pull the metal part out by hand. Looks like it's just press fit in there, no glue or anything. At least not on the ones that I bought.