[amayausers] Re: Skinny Columns
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- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:19:38 UT
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One thing I found for small lettering was to go to a 60 weight thread and a #9
needle. Then slow the machine WAY down 500 to 700 spm and lettering came out
beautiful. I've sewed as small as .1 with great results.
The smaller the lettering, the smaller the needle, the thinner the thread, the
slower the machine. This recipe has worked well for me.
I sew most lettering at 850 spm. When the lettering gets smaller, I slow the
machine down. When I am sewing lettering on top of multiple layers of thread, I
slow the machine down. When you sew fast over layers, the needle flexes more
(with the smaller #9 and #10 needles) and will effect the quality of the
lettering.
I've never adjusted the column widths, but I think I will try that soon.
Now, the thread problems you have described sound like you have a bad needle.
Change it. It doesn't matter if you just put it in. Change it.
Looping is caused by too much density in the column design and/or thread
tension. Adjust one, then the other. Start with the column density. Watch the
thread as you sew. Is it tight, bouncy, looping before the needle? You want it
just a little bouncy, not tight. Adjust thread feed or switch to the "auto"
setting in OS.
Hope this helps. These combinations of troubleshooting and setups have worked
great for me and I do ALL of my own digitizing.
The most complex of designs should not take you more than a few hours to
digitize, one sewout to look for registration issues, an hour tops for
digitizing adjustments, and one final sewout for quality. Then hoop-em and make
some money!
If you are "part-timing" like me, you'll want to spend your time on running the
machine, not digitizing. Contract a few designs and then when you have some
time, load them in DS and start to disect them. See how others have done it and
learn from them. Try to replicate the design on your own.
I took this approach initially, but found that I could replicate the design
with fewer stitches and different fills that suited my machine better than the
designs I bought.
I even take pre-digitized designs and re-digitize them for my AMAYAS. I remove
lots of walk stitches and "random" fills and replace them with elements that
work for my machines.
Good luck.
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