Wires can also be completely pulled out. I recently tried a technique mentioned here a while back, and it worked great. Clip one side of the wire stitch about ¼ in long and heat it with a soldering iron while holding the long end with your bare hand. When the long end gets hot, grab it with pliers and pull it out. Two people make the job easy.

: I FINALLY got around to doing the fillets and taping for the hull of my North
: Bay last week. When it came time to cutting of the wires on the outside, I
: wanted to cut them as flush to the hull as possible to reduce the amount
: of sanding. Instead of spending gobs of money for a set of precision wire
: cutters, I used a pair of straight-cut toenail clippers, $1.99 at Sally
: Beauty Supply. They cut the the copper wire cleanly and quickly, with no
: nicking of the blades.