of the shaft 1 bears a conventional unstitching tool having a knife 13 which can be concealed by a protective cap 15 the protective cap can have a point in the same way for the shaft itself per fig1 3 as shown in fig5 for example in order to remove stubborn thread ends and guide the cloth per above the protective cap 15 can be shaped such that when secured to the shaft 1 it constitutes an extension of the shaft itself the thread removal head 3 can also itself sit on the protective cap 15 see fig1 while the shaft 1 is a self standing unit at whose first end a tool such as an unstitching tool 13 can be found while its other opposite end can be shaped as a point 9 per the above the unstitching tool can as above be concealed by the protective cap with thread removal head when this is placed at the first end of the shaft and be freely exposed when the protective cap is placed at the other end moreover it is possible to fashion the thread removal tool as a set of various parts which can be put together and taken apart so that one can work as effectively as possible with the tool in every given situation as is shown in fig1 a 13 c the thread removal head 3 is a loose part having a projecting part or dowel 23 the dowel can be introduced into a corresponding cavity 25 in the entire end of the protective cap 15 and.