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- #9,010 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing (See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing)
- #13 in Beading Needles
paige l
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2025
These are easy to use and good size. They work really well with my little bead stringer bowl. They hold up fairly well before breaking.
Terry
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
Perfect for stringing seed beads!
Jennifer
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
My daughter uses these and she finds it helpful but they bend easily. And a little tricky to use.
amber gordils
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
Very easy and quick to set up and use. Love that it is steel so it’s pretty study. Price wasn't bad at all. Love it so far.
James D
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2024
Wasn't expecting too much from this one but my wife wanted to try. We hand string gemstone bracelets for our business so customers can have some options and not be limited to the "standard" seven inch ones you can source. Doing them by hand and bead by bead meant we could only manage six to eight an hour depending on how well the beads behaved once we set them up on a beading tray and went after them with the beading needle. Time is ultimately money and with a cheap but reasonable expected labor rate (better than minimum wage) for our costing calculations the labor was generally a few times the cost of the beads.Enter this unit. Like mentioned I did not have high hopes but just a few minutes of fiddling and you can work out the groove of the work flow. For the common seven inch bracelet you just fill the length of the tray, turn it and and run the needle through. We were able to trim the cord, add the beads, setup the needle, string them and tie it off in two minutes. If it's less than seven inches just pull the correct amount off the filled tray. If it's bigger add the few extra beads needed to the needle before you tie it off.Going from maybe ten minutes each to three or four minutes each saves a lot of time real fast. Make twenty bracelets and on the low end you saved two hours of labor if not three hours. Whats your labor rate? Even at $20 an hour target it won't take many bracelets to recoup the cost of the machine.It does not work with faceted beads, although it does mention that but I wanted to repeat it. They just bounce out. Our biggest issue was finding a long enough rigid needle that could hold seven inches of bead with space for us to hold the needle and be thin enough to pass through the bead holes carrying the cord at the same time. Depending on your bead hole drill size that may or may not be an issue. Before we found a suitable needle we shimmed the top edge up a little so it was angled up and the beads traveled down and we just picked up a few inches at a time with a smaller needle until we had captured the entire amount. Even that was considerably faster than using a beading tray.
SLT
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2024
Nice needles and good quality. It gets the job done!
Michelle Martinez
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2024
These bead needles are just right sturdy enough to hold. I will buy them again, they’re worth the money. Just what I needed.
Reema
Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on August 7, 2023
Good
Meghan
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022
After just using it a few times to bead a bracelet and once in with a spinner. I was annoyed that the eye broke off. The shaft of the needle is nice and strong unlike other beading needles that can be so flexible they are hard to hold without bending. But since the eye is a wire that is attached to the end it broke off at that point. I think if I hold it differently I could get it to not break but it's a flaw of design.
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