HTS191D5 5 Prong Jeweler's Pick-Up Tool

What a waste of money. It’s did not help me at all with my peircings

I have several piercing and very long nails. With long nails it is damn near impossible to screw the ball of my piercings on without several attempts and dropping it several times. This tool has been very helpful seeing as it holds a tight grip on the ball of the piercing so it can be screwed on tightly.

As a person with 16 piercings this is super handy. All of my cartilage piercings really needed this. As you can see in the video… the ball grabber picks up the ball and holds it so you can put it on easily. I wear nails sometimes and sometimes my hands get sweaty. This was a fantastic investment and works great!!!

This has been a lifesaver, I wear the tiniest horseshoe in my nostril and trying to get the balls on was ridiculously difficult. I ordered this and used it on my nose ring a month ago, and the balls haven’t fallen off at all!

I got this tool to function as something better than tweezers to hold keyboard switch stems while I apply lubricant to them. For this purpose, it does the job as expected -- that is, better than tweezers, by virtue of simply having two additional grabbers. It's intuitive to use, and relatively stable in its grip.There are a couple of annoying things about it, though. Most annoying -- the action on it is not very smooth. The plunger starts relatively loose, and then quickly tightens up and requires more pressure, before finally loosening abruptly again and closing very fast. It's also a sort of scratchy resistance, as if the spring is encountering a lot of friction -- you can hear the mechanism scrape a bit. (The irony of using this tool to make keyboard switches smoother is not lost on me.)The lesser annoying thing is that the grabbers themselves are a little crooked, with the fingers being a few millimeters off in length from each other (this might just be a constraint of how this mechanism works). This means that it holds switch stems at an angle relative to the shaft of the tool (see photo). This also means that the grip on the switch stems isn't perfectly stable; they can still shift around while being gripped if I brush a certain way or with certain pressure.A much more minor thing to note is that the tips of the fingers themselves are very sharp and rough. If not careful, they could certainly scratch softer materials (eg, the plastic used in keyboard parts). This isn't really a big deal to me at all, but worth noting.In aggregate, these downsides cause me to be much more careful about how I pick up switch stems, compared to tweezers which I feel much freer with. I now have a flow where I carefully open the fingers just enough that the cross stem can fit in to minimize the space that the spring clamps down on, and then close the grip as slowly as possible.Do I think it's better than tweezers? Yes, I do -- still having four fingers instead of just the two on tweezers is a huge improvement in stability when it comes to actually brushing lube on the stems. I will definitely still use it, and my overall process is improved by using it. However, I have to imagine there are better tools, or better versions of this tool, out there for this particular niche job.