Does anyone know of a UK supplier for this gadget - the "Gimp Grabber" or wooden-handled hackle plier? It sounds most useful. I only have a very basic hackle plier, with no handle at all, and find it quite awkward to use. I certainly couldn't use it to "hold" a broken thread prior to throwing it out.
on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Clay Blackwell wrote: ...After I used my first Swivel Hackle, I had the notion that it would be very pleasing if the metal handle could be replaced with a bobbin. I gave Richard Worthen one of these hackles, and asked him to insert the working part into one of his turned bobbins .... and on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 kenn van dieren replied: ...the copyright symbol is for the name of the tool "Gimp Grabber" not the tool itself... Bridget Marrow, in Pinner, Middlesex. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
