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Needle wear

Joy Beeson

04-25-2008

Mary Fisher

Pogonip

Sparafucile

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Posted by Joy Beeson on April 25, 2008, 12:21 pm

Just read an advertisement for a "spiral eye" needle; one of the
harped-on points was that the needle wasn't plated, so you could
sharpen it with an emery board.

Three things raised my eyebrows.

(1) With an EMERY BOARD?

(2) How does plating stop you from honing a needle? If it's because
you don't want to grind the plating off, the plating on a worn-dull
needle is already gone anyway.

(3) I've bent and broken and lost hand-sewing needles, but I don't
recall ever *blunting* one.

Hence this post: have any of you ever worn the point off a
hand-sewing needle?

Joy Beeson
--
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Posted by Mary Fisher on April 25, 2008, 1:33 pm

> Just read an advertisement for a "spiral eye" needle; one of the

> harped-on points was that the needle wasn't plated, so you could

> sharpen it with an emery board.

> Three things raised my eyebrows.

> (1) With an EMERY BOARD?

> (2) How does plating stop you from honing a needle? If it's because

> you don't want to grind the plating off, the plating on a worn-dull

> needle is already gone anyway.

> (3) I've bent and broken and lost hand-sewing needles, but I don't

> recall ever *blunting* one.

> Hence this post: have any of you ever worn the point off a

> hand-sewing needle?

I don't think so, but I've worn the shank on a few.

Mary

Posted by Pogonip on April 25, 2008, 2:17 pm

Joy Beeson wrote:

> Just read an advertisement for a "spiral eye" needle; one of the

> harped-on points was that the needle wasn't plated, so you could

> sharpen it with an emery board.

> Three things raised my eyebrows.

> (1) With an EMERY BOARD?

> (2) How does plating stop you from honing a needle? If it's because

> you don't want to grind the plating off, the plating on a worn-dull

> needle is already gone anyway.

> (3) I've bent and broken and lost hand-sewing needles, but I don't

> recall ever *blunting* one.

> Hence this post: have any of you ever worn the point off a

> hand-sewing needle?

> Joy Beeson

Not on a hand-sewing needle, but some really old sewing machines had a
small honing stone for sharpening the machine needle. For folks who own
an old machine that doesn't take a standard 15 x 1 needle, and have a
hard time finding needles to fit (source is usually old Boye general
store cases with the little wooden tubes), sharpening a needle is often
the way to go. The stones on the machine are set to turn with the
treadle similar to a bobbin winder.

For hand-sewing needles, I use the little emery "strawberry" on the pin
cushion.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/

Posted by Sparafucile on April 25, 2008, 9:08 pm

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:21:51 -0400, Joy Beeson wrote:

> Just read an advertisement for a "spiral eye" needle; one of the

> harped-on points was that the needle wasn't plated, so you could

> sharpen it with an emery board.

> Three things raised my eyebrows.

> (1) With an EMERY BOARD?

> (2) How does plating stop you from honing a needle? If it's because

> you don't want to grind the plating off, the plating on a worn-dull

> needle is already gone anyway.

> (3) I've bent and broken and lost hand-sewing needles, but I don't

> recall ever *blunting* one.

> Hence this post: have any of you ever worn the point off a

> hand-sewing needle?

> Joy Beeson

        I certainly haven't, but I do know that in couture workshops where
they would, the "hands" use a little strawberry-shaped thing filled
with very, very fine emery *powder*, and push their needles into it
regularly to sharpen them...

--
Ciao,

Serge

                ´I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul.¡
                                Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

        4/25/2008 9:06:11 PM

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