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Quote from: TuffPossumGear on June 05, 2018, 02:44:27 PMYES!!!! putting zippers on coil. Not fun. Cutting days aren't my favorite that is for sure.Build yourself a zipper fork. (Or pay $40 for a bent piece of metal) It's life changing if you're doing a lot of zippers. Heck, even if you only do them occasionally. I used to spend 5min to get one pull on sometimes. And now it's effortless with a fork.
YES!!!! putting zippers on coil. Not fun. Cutting days aren't my favorite that is for sure.
hate:I hate sewing molle...I dont have a bartac so it all triple stitch and is just too time consuming with setting everything up, keeping it aligned and then cutting all the thread..hate itsuck at:tape...still going it by hand
I'm surprised that so many of you struggle with zippers... I do it pretty much every day, in all kinds of sizes from #3 to #10, in regular, reversed, reversed coated, invisible and with locking and non-locking sliders in various combos up to 4 sliders per zipper and while at times it can be fiddly, but it's not the part that sucks or eats time in my world.Hate:- Repairs/Modifications. The client has 0 idea about the stuff involved in repairs or modification, so you can't make money on it. And it sucks to pop out year old dirty thread. But I don't do repairs or modifications because I hate it.- Cutting. Holy fucking hell cutting by hand sucks. Especially for bigger projects or batch cutting. Everything sucks to cut in it's own way, but light fabrics that fray in the wind are the absolute worst.- Production sewing. Unless you have a crew of friends and tons of beer, anything more than a batch of 2 drives me crazy.Suck at:- Coverstitching without spending a lot of time preparing it. If you miss the edge that is supposed to be covered, the only way to make it nice is to start over.- Threading flatlock machines.- Work at home on my own projects after a day at work.