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Your cart is empty.The bead Smith's big-eye needles are created by soldering the ends of 2 needles together to form an eye large enough to allow virtually any item to pass through it.
Candy Dzenkiw
Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2023
Nice product!
Birgit
Reviewed in Germany on February 18, 2022
Produkt kam in der vorausgesagten Zeit und ist wie angegeben
nini92
Reviewed in France on April 20, 2021
Grosse déception connaissant la marque... Quatre aiguilles : une des aiguilles était cassée, une autre avait une partie noire comme brûlée. Les aiguilles ne sont du tout rigides et se tordent très facilement, ce qui peut être utile pour certains tissages mais une galère pour d'autres.Bref je ne rachèterai pas. Rien ne vaut la marque Tulip ou john james
Ayla
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2016
I am very new to beading and the first time I tried it, I really struggled with a standard beading needle. It bent if I so much as looked at it, and threading it was next to impossible.Then I found these little beauties! They don't bend (well, I guess they will if you put undue pressure on them) and they are so easy to thread. I cannot understand the reviewers who say they can't even see the eye. All you need to do is bend the needle slightly, and you will see that almost the entire length of the needle opens up. You can open it wider with your finger nail, and literally drop the thread into the opening!You can use either end of the needle, and I have learned by trial and error to just leave a very tiny bit of a tail, as the needle does tend to shred the thread after a while, at the "eye". So you just open the needle up, slip the thread out, snip off the shredded bit, rethread, and you are away again.I have given one of the needles to a friend, and she is also thrilled.
ItsJustMe
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2016
As I have never beaded before, I started a cross stitch project that needed beads. I had a beading needle but the end was too large so I had to use a tiny sewing needle. What do tiny sewing needles have? A tiny hole for the thread to go in. Tried everything to get this to work so I Googled big eye beading needle and here is where it led to. These are the most wonderful big eye needles ever! The entire needle is the eye, so no magnifying glass, or bright lights needed. Doesn't matter how many strands of floss either. And those tiny holed seed beads work wonderfully with these needles as well.I have been using one needle, it is bent [cause they are really long] from me trying to use tiny bits of floss, but it is still working so great, I just bend it back straight again and add new floss. My project is almost finished and it never would be this close without these needles!Bought some more too.
J. K.
Reviewed in Germany on April 30, 2016
Die Nadeln sind super. Ich benutze sie, um Perlen auf zufädeln. Macht sich super, da sie sich verbiegen lassen, Und das Faden einlegen macht sich auch super.
Marley
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015
Thanks to lousy vision, threading a needle is the part I really hate. These are so much easier than a regular needle. I slip a fingernail between the two halves and they open easily.Over time I've noticed a few things:* Yes, they are sharp enough to break skin.* The thread will get damaged if it remains tucked into the spot where the two halves meet for a long time. I move the thread around a little bit every few minutes.* It is possible to break these needles apart if you pull on the thread hard enough. It does take a good amount of effort, though.* They fit through seed beads and my grandmother's pearls.* They are very flexible.* I seem to get a longer life out of the needles if I turn them around now and then. I slide the thread up the length of the needle and continue using the other side as the point. It wears the needle out more evenly.Other beading needles can be cheaper, and depending on what I'm doing I'll use those sometimes. But these are my favorites.
Noel Davis
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2015
I don't have a problem getting a needle threader and thread through a beading needle. My problem is I always break the needle threader when pulling the thread through the eye of the needle. This ends up being a big waste of money continually buying needle threaders.So I decided to try some different types of needles that were easier to thread. I tried the collapsible large eye needles first that have a large eye at just the top of the needle. The needles ended up being like the wire needles that come with silk thread- not my favorite and a little more flexible than I like.These big eye needles are obviously very easy to thread as they completely open in the middle of the needle. They stay firmer than the other collapsible large eye needles I tried. They bend slightly, but are sturdy enough to run thought a large strand of beads on a loom. I use them with size 10/0 and size 15/0 seed beads with no problem. So far I've only broken one needle and this was after many, many uses. As other reviews have commented it will leave a kink in the thread where it rests in the eye of the needle but that isn't really any issue for me.I have also used these needles with thin elastic to make stringing beads on elastic quicker. The kink does create a problem here because the kink will cause the elastic to weaken and break. My remedy for this is to make a very short tail and snip that along with the kink after I knot the elastic.Overall, I love these needles and they have made beading a lot easier for me. So for all the people out there that can't see, have bad depth perception, shake, or just can't seem to thread a needle these are perfect.
Marcia
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014
I used these needles to bead onto knitting worsted weight yarn and they worked well, however, I wish they were sturdier for this type of yarn. It was difficult to pull the thick yarn through the beads without bending. I realize that this is more of a problem with the yarn and beads I used. Probably would not have the problem if using smaller yarn such as jewelry. But, I was not able to find a sturdier version, so these were adequate for the purpose.
bjks
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2012
This thin, well made, "beading" needle works brilliantly to thread regular sewing and machine needles -- by touch.Caution is needed to protect fingers (such as be sure the machine is turned OFF when threading the machine needle and it helps to remove the foot to allow more space). This Big Eye Needle is a delight for me, now that I am vision impaired. With this tool, as intricate sewing is no longer an option, I can continue doing simple sewing - my favorite hobby.This tool threads eyes of medium (as size 80 machine needle)to larger needles.To store the Big Eye Needle, I cut two holes in a light weight cardboard that is longer and wider than the threader. Gently, I "weave" the needle through the holes. The cardboard is easy to find and protects the Big Eye Needle.I "met" the Big Eye Needle while taking beading lessons. Later transferred its use to threading sewing needles.
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