Another cheap friend/tool has just occured to me: tweezers (ordinary,
not "cross action"), fairly large and long (ca 6"/15cm), of which about
a third (at the "business end") is thin _and curved_... I hadn't
thought of it earlier, because I don't use it all that often. But, in
laces where one has a forest of closely spaced pins (PG, for example),
I've found it invaluable; its "beak" will reach into the forest, to
pluck out _the one pin_ which has -- somehow <g> -- been misplaced. I
can't remove it with my fingers, because there are too many other pins
too close together, but the curved tweezers are much more accurate and
selective...
Can't remember where or when I got them, sorry, but they travel with me
even to Milanese classes, "just in case" :)
And another "cheap date"... I don't use brass pins; all of mine --
irrespective of the size and shape -- are either stainless steel or
nickel-plated. So my toolbox (ex-"cosmetic organiser" <g>) also holds a
"magnet stick"... It's ca 3"x0.5"x1/16" and it allows me to sweep the
floor, for dropped pins in my immediate vicinity, without too much
effort. I keep thinking that, "one of these days", I'll get a longer
stick -- at least 6" -- which would allow me to "sweep" without having
to bend at all, but this one was so cheap -- I found it in the street
<g> -- and finding a new one would mean making an effort...
Eureka! I actually _do_ have a better tool... :) Why hadn't I thought
of it before... One summer some years ago, I picked up -- at WalMart,
where else? <g> -- a (round, .5") magnet on a (plastic) "stick", ca 5"
long... Its intended use is to fish out jar lids from their hot bath
when canning, and that's how I've ben using it. In July, August and
September... The rest of the year it's been gathering dust... Not no
more, it won't :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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