Stamp tongs as a staple remover

Here’s a surprisingly good way of removing staples – stamp tongs! I recommend German-made “Solingen” stamp tongs with a spade tip. Stamp tongs are a kind of tweezer with smooth, polished tips. The spade tips are fine enough to slide under the arms of...

More Staple Removers

My interests tend to go from one minor obsession to another, so I tried a number of experiments with staple removers to see which was the Staple Remover to Rule Them All. I found that it depends how much paper has been stapled. If it’s a thick stack – say, 15...

Quest for a Good Staple Remover

Recently, I’ve been scanning boxes of documents recently on my Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanner. The scanner feeds documents through very quickly, a sheet at a time. It can’t handle staples, though. If one gets through, it will drag the next page after...