Henk
There are a lot of things they are used for. Back in the 50's the home hand knitting machines were real popular. That had over 100 of these hooks that were removable. We had one, gave it away when we moved. There is a ladies stocking factory south of us, I have gotten some micro knit pickers from them. They are the smallest I have seen. Skip Shorb uses one of these micro latch hooks to weave his sz 32 mayflies.
Tony
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On 6-sep-04, at 20:03, Tony Spezio wrote:
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Henk,
That is the same tool as the Knit Fixer I mentioned.
Sure, there a quite ubiquitous contraption. Mine actually came from a long needle (like a gudebrod splicing needle but with just a sharpened bevel at the end) which used to be sold over here as a bait needle to thread dead baitfish onto a line. Hook was then attached and pulled back into the fish. I cut the hook end of the needle with a dremel cutting disk and attached a home-turned handle.
henk
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