Tweezers

Rod, those (tongs,tweezers)of yours are a lethal weapon and appear to have seen a lot of use in the stamp wars.

Hehehe, probably lifted about 14 Kg of stamps LG

As soon as I boot up the scanner, I hear..
"No no not the tweezers again"


By the way.."Lithograving"..an oxymoron?

I'm looking for tongs that don't disappear five seconds after I put them down.

Hahaha

someone should design a "swiss army knife" for stamp collectors,
tongs, perf guage, loupe, spoon,
(spoon for eating icecream whilst we read the SCF forum)

Other than putting them on a chain that you can hang from your neck, like a pendant, I have no idea.

Lithograving, I use a pointy tweezer. The kind that a women would use for cosmetic purposes. My mother had gobs of them for herself. I found them easy to use for stamps. There's pointy and too pointy. I use the ones that wouldn't put an eye out.

Donna

Rodney, I have the exact same tongs but stamped with a KABE logo. They are the set I keep up by my scanner.

But most of my work with tongs is done in stockbooks or my Lindner hingeless pages, and the bent spade works best for me. The angle allows you to hold the tongs with your fingers well clear of the stockbook page so I don't always trip with my fingertips over other rows of stamps, like I do with straight tongs. And those heavy Lindner pockets are easy to open up with the bent tongs, which allows for sliding the stamp into the pocket more easily.

Ryan

Yep, have to agree with you there Ryan,
I don't have spades, but the pointy is annoying sometimes
when the stamp swivels when trying to place under plastic.

I guess I'm in the minority here. I have a spade-tip set of tongs and they work well for me. I've had them for at least 30 years so I don't think I paid more than $5 for them at the time (they don't have a name imprinted on them, but I did buy them from a stamp dealer). I used to have the pointed tip ones, but found them difficult to use and they tended to scratch the stamp if not used ever so carefully (maybe I was just too rough on them). Anyway, I never had that problem with the spade-tip.

I think we can all be accused of occasionally using our fingers when stamp tongs are preferred, especially when moving around mounds of cheap stamps. Of course the quality stamps deserve the quality care, and that's when the stamp tongs are hunted down!

Like Rod, I use a Prinz Solingen. I purchased two pairs about 15 years ago and sadly lost one at the Exhibition in London in May.

Which reminds I must get a spare.

But like wt1, I have the spade type. I find it much more comfortable.
I have others but rarely use them.

So wt1, you are not alone !

Londonbus1...Tweezers, don't you just love that word!

I am slightly relieved, and filled with expectation........
I watched "Stephen Fry's 100 most important world gadgets"
last evening, (yes, I know I need to get a life)
He showed only 50 and it never appeared in those, so......

I fully expect next week, to see stamp tongs as the No.1 world gadget.
Otherwise, I shall consider Mr. Fry to be mere humbug.

Oh! and girls... the Brassiere, only rated around #58th IIRC.