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Originally Posted by Matt Krass
I've had decent luck with using a knife to score a complete circle 3 or 4 times around, not actually cutting all the way through, and the firmly twisting the insulation you want to remove, it usually tears neatly along the score, and can be slipped off.
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I traditionally do the same thing, only I:
1. Score (shallowly) a complete circle around the shielding.
2. Bend the wire (about 90 degrees), causing the shielding to separate where it has been scored.
3. Push a blade down SLOWLY (never "slice") into the separation until the shielding breaks apart - usually it will break apart without you having to go all the way through with your blade.
4. Bend the wire in another direction, and repeat - until the shielding has broken all the way around.
This is what I do for really large wires (that I have to manually strip) when I don't want to cut into the wire underneath, or extremely tiny wires where I'm afraid I'll cut all the way through.
-Danny