try slipping fine rubber tube onto the tips of hackle pliers, forceps,
tweesers etc, the kind you used to get {and still might get) in bicycle tyre
repair kits
iain
Oh wow, what a fantastic idea... The forceps I have come from
hospital suture kits with one set of very fine point and a larger
rounded point... Both don't have the grooves on the inside of the
pincers which make holding onto items pretty hard... I've lost
several beads and hooks to the carpet because of that... The hooks
I've found, but some of the beads blend too much into this beige/brown
shag carpet...
Thank you both, Tony and Murf...
Rodney...
On 7/14/05, David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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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