Needles loved and needles hated

snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il (Mirjam Bruck-Cohen) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.actcom.co.il:

i use a pencil sharpener on my wood needles... :)

i did return a set of bamboo circulars, US 13s, because i couldn't use them on a lace weight shawl yarn. they were just way to blunt & i didn't feel that bamboo would do well in the pencil sharpener. i traded them for birch & those are working just fine (so far) without sharpening. i keep a pencil sharpener & a craft sanding pad (like an emery board, but bigger, softer (foam center) & more suitable grit sizes) in my knitting basket(s). lee

There are so many details wrong with what you say that there's no point in continuing this or it will be seen as an argument. And you still haven't explained how casting needles could be done :-)

Mary

If you do not want to use them, give them a mist of WD-40 and keep them very dry. For things like that I have little packets of desiccant (drier) that I get at camera shops. The desiccant gets redried every few months and really stops any sort of moisture problems.

Aar>> If I had old nickel plated needles, where the nickel had worn through and

Rubbing the tips on a stone floor will at least keep the tips from being slippery

All you folks trying to knit lace from those super-slippery synthetic yarns might remember that.

Aaron

Belatedly... Rust will continue even when it seems dry. The WD-40 will help a little. You may also use one of the commercial rust removers such as Naval Jelly and then clean the chemcial and rust off, dry the needles, and then spray them with WD-40 spray.

My usual method is to use fine sandpaper or emery paper, but I'm not trying to preserve the antique value or vintage character, I just want to knit with them.

=Tamar