Hey, Martin - Congrats on the FAOL monthly prize drawing! I've used the Ekich for my 17/0 trico thread and it works very well *for an automatic*. I guess the feel is somewhere between a Thumb-plate bobbin and a Norvise bobbin, in my opinion. Personally, I'm a control freak, so I don't care for the "automatic" types, but if I had to go with one, this would be it. Norvise's bobbin is too awkward for my gorilla hands, and the spool-change thing isn't for me, either. I like the design of the Ekich having only one side of the bobbin bar, with the other (loading) side free. You can do some nice thread- tension tricks with it that way, but then you are defeating the purpose of an automatic bobbin. All in all, I'd say it's better than most but not my favorite. If you like the feel of an automatic bobbin, then this is the best I've tried. Just my personal opinion... I'm too trained in 'thread tension' (read: control freak!) to go to an automatic bobbin. For the record, I have 7 bobbins that I use currently, 6 of them being Griffin ceramic bobbins (one of those 6 being midge, the other 5 standards) and the 7th being some cheap generic brand that I use for "rippers" (wires and tinsels that damage the head of the bobbin). I have a half of a shoebox (size 21 shoes, I might add) of old bobbins that I don't use for one reason or another... Hope that helps, and have fun tying with it! Tight wraps, Pete
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