Tony had a neat idea some time back. He glues a tiny piece of fine sandpaper to the inside of his hackle pliers to avoid slippage. I suppose you might want to try this on tweezers or a thin piece of rubber before trying such with a 32 so it doesn't squirt out.
With Tony's idea in mind, I'm taking some forceps and glueing some thin foam on the pinchers to handle small beads as I have large hands and grip too hard so bead handling is fraught with dropped ones.
Murf
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Subject: [VFB] Was Size 32, now, picking up hooks
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:10:00 -0600
OK Don, Tony and other folks,
Being basicly a one handed tier for the moment, how do you pick up very
small hooks and put them in the vice? I use an old pair of surgical fine
point forcepts for the most part to pick a hook out of my box. But anything
smaller than a 14 I have trouble holding to get it in the vice. How do you
do it on such small hooks, (say 20's down)?
Jimi
Tony,
Once you hit size 28, the numbers are kinda arbitrary. I was told the #34's
that I have are #40's , but proportionately to the Mustad 32, they are not.
But, OTOH, proportionately to the Tiemco #32, they are easily a #40. I can
send you that photo and you can tell me if it's the same hook.
Don
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