How to Completely Restring a Baseball or Softball Glove

Video Transcript

"The questions asked how to re-string a baseball glove. Well re-stringing a baseball glove is time consuming but it's really not all that difficult. First thing you are going to need is a needle, a baseball glove needle like this. The hole up here in the end is just like the needles that you might use for other uses for sewing something and that you, you have to purchase some of the leather like this to re-string your glove with. And that leather basically fits through this eye of the needle up here so that you can use it to go through the various holes that are already in the glove. You basically push the needle through with the point, pull it through just like a needle and thread and go through the glove and re-string it just as it was re-strung in the first place. Now I would suggest that as you try to re-string your glove that you take it apart in pieces, rather then trying to re-string the whole thing at once. Because you can see this glove it enters in exists the glove many many times, especially in the webbing area. As you can see. So take the glove apart, remember exactly how you took the glove apart, and how you took the existing leather out, so that you can retrace your steps and take the leather right back through the exact same sequence that you took it apart. You'll see that the glove has a lot of knots in it, you need to remember where the knots are because that's where you want to tie off your various, runs that you are going to make with this leather. You will need several pieces of leather to restitch the entire glove. I would suggest starting with the webbing first since that's one of the most complicated things and then if you need to re-stitch the rest of the glove, then you can go to those various positions. You are going to need several pieces of leather to restitch it and one of these restitching needles in order to go through the holes in the glove. But again take it apart, remember how you took it apart and put it together in the exact opposite order. And basically that's how you re-stitch a baseball glove."