Tweezer Options

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Nefaro

Trying to handle stacked wargame counters with tweezers seems like it would just make it more troublesome.

Are you guys really so palsied as to require tools to pick up cardboard pieces?   :))

Pinetree

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Quote from: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 02:26:44 AM
Trying to handle stacked wargame counters with tweezers seems like it would just make it more troublesome.

Are you guys really so palsied as to require tools to pick up cardboard pieces?   :))

+1
Never understood the use of tweezers myself..... ???

bob48

So, what do you use to pluck your eyebrows with?
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'Clip those corners'

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mirth

Quote from: bob48 on September 11, 2017, 05:40:09 AM
So, what do you use to pluck your eyebrows with?

Wait until you meet him. The guy is all eyebrows.
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Quote from: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 02:26:44 AM
Trying to handle stacked wargame counters with tweezers seems like it would just make it more troublesome.

Are you guys really so palsied as to require tools to pick up cardboard pieces?   :))

A single stack is fine. It's when that stack is surrounded by 5-6 other stacks that the tweezers become a necessity.
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bbmike

^This. You don't use them all the time.
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Nefaro

Quote from: mirth on September 11, 2017, 05:55:19 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 02:26:44 AM
Trying to handle stacked wargame counters with tweezers seems like it would just make it more troublesome.

Are you guys really so palsied as to require tools to pick up cardboard pieces?   :))

A single stack is fine. It's when that stack is surrounded by 5-6 other stacks that the tweezers become a necessity.


Meh.

I watched someone attempting to do that with tweezers a few times in a video.  It still looked like he would've accomplished it faster by pulling the stack out with his fingers & nudging the rest back in place.

I suppose you guys have the shakes all the time, if that can't be done?    :buck2: 

Lay off the coffee you addict fiends! 







mirth

If you play enough counter heavy wargames, you learn the value of using tweezers to move the counters. It's also much easier to lift a single counter from a stack with screwing up the stack or the surrounding stacks.
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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

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Nefaro

Oh....

And trim those corners if you don't want your hairy-cornered stacks of counters velcro'ing to each other!

<:-)

mirth

Quote from: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 01:23:05 PM
And trim those corners if you don't want your hairy-cornered stacks of counters velcro'ing to each other!

exactly! :P
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Quote from: mirth on September 11, 2017, 05:55:19 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 02:26:44 AM
Trying to handle stacked wargame counters with tweezers seems like it would just make it more troublesome.

Are you guys really so palsied as to require tools to pick up cardboard pieces?   :))

A single stack is fine. It's when that stack is surrounded by 5-6 other stacks that the tweezers become a necessity.

Exactly.  Plus it just looks cool.

mirth

Quote from: Pinetree on September 11, 2017, 04:48:04 AM
I have a pair of these. Nice and wide for all sizes of counters:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00275F5JW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I ordered these and the damned light didn't work. Reported it to Amazon,  a second pair was sent and the light was bad on that.  At least I ended up with two pair of nice tweezers for the price of one.
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