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Update: I gave up hand-sewing seams and bought a Kool Glide, and I have mixed feelings after 3 months
For 11 years I sewed every seam by hand with a curved needle and a locking stitch, and I swore I would never touch a heat bond tool. Last March I finally bought a Kool Glide for $450 because my hands were cramping so bad on big rooms that I was losing a full hour of work a day. The speed is real, I can close a 40 foot seam in under 20 minutes now and the tape is way stronger than most people think when you set the heat right. But here is my problem, I came up on a crew in Lubbock where the old guys said if you can see where the seam was, you failed, and I still catch myself running my palm down a seam looking for that bump. Also the tool leaves a shine on some berbers that hand sewing never did, and I had to eat $200 on a redo because of it. Anybody else switch over and did you ever get used to the look, or do you still hand stitch certain piles?
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casey26826d ago
Curious what heat setting you landed on for those berbers that took the shine. Did you try backing the temp down a notch or switch tapes before you ate the redo?
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