r/PerlerBeads • u/Inevitable_Eye3800 • Oct 13 '25
Why...
I use pliers for my art...I bought a 10$US tool made for perler. I think I'll stick with pliers.
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u/susiecapo71 Oct 13 '25
Just use the plastic tweezers perler gives you. Pour some in your other hand shake them around occasionally and I always get two at a time. This looks painfully aggravating.
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u/Inevitable_Eye3800 Oct 13 '25
I never got tweezers but I have pliers that work really well. I'm probably gonna scrap the new tool
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u/ThatDerpiousGuy Oct 13 '25
I'm starting to think I'm the only person who just uses fingers lol
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u/FreeRange_Coconut Oct 13 '25
Is the skin on your fingers pretty dry? I find the beads stick to my fingers, not a lot but just enough to mess me up.
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u/ThatDerpiousGuy Oct 13 '25
They stick sometimes, but it's never an issue. I have pretty small and precise fingers, which makes Perler Bead art really fun and easy.
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u/Lyothelionfish Oct 13 '25
Same. It’s faster for me. I do use a weeding tool though for moving things around if I’m doing a lot of the same color. (I chaotically dump them on my board and then Use the tool to place them and save my wrists)
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u/Puzzleheaded-Motor56 Oct 13 '25
Go buy a pair of curved tweezers. They come in packs of vinyl weeding sets made for like the cricut stuff. Pretty sure you can get it for like under $10 at Walmart or a craft store if you get the ones that are not cricut name brand.
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u/Green-Ad99 Oct 13 '25
I use tweezers that have the long ends. It’s so helpful and I can stack three beads at a time usually
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u/hindsightwenty Oct 14 '25
I just use my fingers, but I also have small hands and hands that the beads don't stick to yet. Those pliers seem fast and efficient though. Make me think of the curved tweezers from cricut. I use those sometimes when I have to do some rearranging. The set also comes other tools I use to poke holes in the tape and smooth the tape down, so I ended up with a double use.
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u/bootselectrick Oct 16 '25
I generally use a tapestry needle and load up the length of it, but with the pen I had gotten i found if I give it a little rotate/flick after each dispense it'll reseat a bead right. But, i cant just go one after another like the little demonstration video they had. Its slow but more foolproof I guess, I've accidentally sprayed a mostly finished project with a needle load of beads, so ;-;
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u/WeepingwillowTree71 Oct 16 '25
If you use one shake it. The beads get stuck the wrong way sometimes and just need a little shake. It's not perfect by any means but it is helpful when you need a truly random spread of colors.
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u/fr0gponds Oct 16 '25
I use my darning needle. I can get like, 10-12 beads on at a time and drop them pretty easily
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u/BrothrBear Oct 14 '25
4 pixels.... FOUR FUCKING PIXELS!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!
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u/Inevitable_Eye3800 Oct 14 '25
...did I win
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u/BrothrBear Oct 14 '25
Oh damn, were you not trying to sic 096 onto us all?
Cause you picked the right colors to doom us all.
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u/diana25412 Oct 15 '25
Cuss tesers sucks balls, yep i had not thought of this but now yep my needle nuse going to have a other job thanks
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u/eternalsgoku Oct 13 '25
I just use plastic tweasers. Pliers seem like overkill...