Splinter tweezer magnifier

[tonyfoale]

That second one looks like a bow pen from my set of drafting instruments.

I thought the same.

[Drew1966]

I use my grandmother’s splinter method. A small bottle with a very small mouth. I then fill the bottle around 20% with boiling water. Allow the bottle to heat up and fill with steam. Then apply the neck of the bottle around the site, the heat helps loosen the splinter and the partial vacuum pulls it out.

[mwmkravchenko]

This I will remember for sure! Thanks Tony.

[whardin]

I have excellent results removing metal splinters with a good rare earth magnet.

[Drew1966]

That’s fine for steel, but what about aluminium or copper?

[ranald]

I use my grandmother’s splinter method. A small bottle with a very small mouth. I then fill the bottle around 20% with boiling water. Allow the bottle to heat up and fill with steam. Then apply the neck of the bottle around the site, the heat helps loosen the splinter and the partial vacuum pulls it out.

That method was "WAS" also good for boils and worked well but probably considered "torture" NOW.
With our hardwoods & CCA pine, my splinters fester within about a day & I then push with a thumb nail from the opposite end to the entry point & they always simply pop out. Steel is quite different as is aluminium.

I did, however, have one that went straight in at about 90 degrees & I did the usual but with two finger nails:it popped out & healed over then a while after(some weeks) it gave me some grief again & it was obvious that a wee bit was still well embeded & I had to dig it out with a needle=better than going to hospital.

Regards
Ranald

[Stevohdee]

I cut keys for most of my life & the little splinters would somehow find their way into my shoes & into the bottom of my foot. Problem was they'd present themselves on the way home making driving painful so i kept tweesers in the car for the occasional surgery.... Ouch!!

[Beserkleyboy]

What a hoot reading everyone's splinter posts! Who'd have thought so much research could go into a humble splinter...at the timber yard as a boy, one of the old timers, from Montana, would have a fair cackle at me trying to pick out a Redwood splinter (they fester quickly...), and say...'Sh..t Jimmy, I've had worse than that on the head of my pecker....' RIP Ray.. cheers
Jim

[Stevohdee]

Hahahaja jim, well put, mayby its because splinters r more annoyin than the missus rippin in to ya!! Hey

[Moby Duck]

One of those cheap spring loaded solder suckers might work for this, and it would then be a one handed operation.