Best Thread For Vergez Blanchard #7 Pricking Iron?

[tossik]

I just got a #7 Vergez Blanchard iron and need a thread to would look best with the size and look. Any recommendations?

[25b]

I generally use John James 002 needles and 0.8mm Tiger thread with my VB #7 set...(same thread and needles Nigel Armitage recommends for 7SPI...works great for me...)

Depends what you're making also though...

Edited November 19, 2014 by 25b

[tossik]

#7 will be for a little larger stuff like bags and belts and such. But for now I will even use it on a wallet until I can get a #9 or #10.

Do you have any sample of your stitches?

[DavidL]

Depends if you like the stitches with a thick stitch, fine stitch or somewhere in the middle. I've done 5 SPI using tiger thread .8mm and to me that looks about right for that size of thread. I prefer it finer so I use .6mm for 7spi and 8spi. Just my preference, for your #7 vergez (6 SPI) I would use something in the .58mm to .7mm, something around .6mm would be about right.

If you making something that takes a lot of stress then you would want the thicker threads, although Peter Nitz has used .58mm thread to hold together the seams of a purse at something like 4-5 SPI without an pricking iron just with scratch marks for reference.

[25b]

Vergez-Blanchard #7, 002 John James needles, 0.8mm Tiger thread

Edited November 19, 2014 by 25b

[tossik]

Thanks for advice guys! Appreciate it!