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Title: Tweezer Options
Post by: Bison on September 10, 2017, 12:41:13 PM
I need a new pair of tweezers.  The ones I have I picked up at Walmart a few years ago, but I've always hated them.  I need something that can more easily grasp counters of various sizes.

Recommendations?
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Steelgrave on September 10, 2017, 01:06:22 PM
Whoo boy....jokes about male genital size incoming.....well, not from me but you know this crowd.  ::)
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Bison on September 10, 2017, 01:12:00 PM
I didn't think I'd have to qualify the statement to not receive Mirths preferred masterbation tool, but yeah your right.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 10, 2017, 01:21:02 PM
You very well know that you're my preferred masturbation tool...those big meaty hands of yours  :smitten:
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bob48 on September 10, 2017, 02:08:22 PM
Quote from: Bison on September 10, 2017, 12:41:13 PM
I need a new pair of tweezers.  The ones I have I picked up at Walmart a few years ago, but I've always hated them.  I need something that can more easily grasp counters of various sizes.

Recommendations?

I need to get some as well - looking at longish curved end ones.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bbmike on September 10, 2017, 02:10:03 PM
I bought these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WC0BBE0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) from Amazon. They work great.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bob48 on September 10, 2017, 03:34:33 PM
Yeah, Mike - that looks spot-on.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Steelgrave on September 10, 2017, 03:36:13 PM
Now you just need a little, tiny bottle of Aveeno   O0
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bob48 on September 10, 2017, 03:36:47 PM
..with a little tiny Gus to hold it......
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Steelgrave on September 10, 2017, 03:53:50 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Gusington on September 10, 2017, 03:57:05 PM
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Staggerwing on September 10, 2017, 04:00:00 PM
Quote from: Gusington on September 10, 2017, 03:57:05 PM
Isn't that an oxymoron?

Actually, a redundancy. It would be an oxymoron if you were really 6 & 1/2 feet tall.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 10, 2017, 04:11:16 PM
The moron part still applies :P
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Gusington on September 10, 2017, 04:17:17 PM
'Wing gets me.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: MikeGER on September 10, 2017, 05:43:20 PM
i use the one shown in the picture  ...bought it at a booth on a fair (not a games fair) near City of blades Solingen which had all kind of small scissors, tweezers, pliers, scoopulas, scalpels,  n'such instruments to browse through
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi66.tinypic.com%2F206ol6b.jpg&hash=d22ef8319b6f8d8c3e1a472ab3cf7c185d55d925)
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: 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?   :))
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: 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 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00275F5JW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Barthheart on September 11, 2017, 05:27:39 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?   :))

+1
Never understood the use of tweezers myself..... ???
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bob48 on September 11, 2017, 05:40:09 AM
So, what do you use to pluck your eyebrows with?
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 05:53:27 AM
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.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bbmike on September 11, 2017, 06:15:36 AM
^This. You don't use them all the time.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 08:40:41 AM
Quote from: bbmike on September 10, 2017, 02:10:03 PM
I bought these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WC0BBE0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) from Amazon. They work great.

Ordered.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 01:17:15 PM
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! 






Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 01:21:16 PM
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.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Nefaro on September 11, 2017, 01:23:05 PM
Oh....

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

<:-)
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 01:29:06 PM
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
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Bison on September 11, 2017, 08:21:00 PM
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 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00275F5JW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Thanks.  Those look good.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: Bison on September 11, 2017, 08:21:30 PM
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.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 13, 2017, 12:11:37 PM
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 (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.
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: bob48 on September 13, 2017, 12:20:18 PM
I'm going to try these very cheap ones.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OVSQHJU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Title: Re: Tweezer Options
Post by: mirth on September 13, 2017, 12:26:42 PM
Quote from: bob48 on September 13, 2017, 12:20:18 PM
I'm going to try these very cheap ones.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OVSQHJU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have a couple pair like that. They do the job.