Tweezers are small hand tools used to grasp objects that are too small to be handled by human fingers. We must use a variety of tweezer tip styles and shapes due to the size and shape of the items we grab, grip, place, or hold.
Tips can be flat, round, pointed, bent, or square. Tweezer bodies can also be straight, bent, curved, or angled for easier access to the objects they must handle.Tweezers are made up of two third-class levers joined at one fixed end (the fulcrum point of each lever) and pincers at the other. They are commonly held in a pen grip between the thumb and index finger (sometimes also the middle finger), with the top end resting on the first dorsal interosseous muscle at the webspace between the thumb and index finger. Until finger pressure is applied, spring tension keeps the grasping ends apart. This allows the user to grasp, manipulate, and quickly release small or delicate objects with easily variable pressure.
Tweezers are commonly used for tasks such as plucking hair from the face or brows, hence the term eyebrow tweezers. Tweezers are also commonly used to manipulate small objects, such as small, particularly surface-mount, electronic parts and small mechanical parts for models and precision mechanisms. Tweezers (stamp tongs) are used by stamp collectors to handle postage stamps that, while large enough to pick up by hand, can be damaged by handling; the jaws of stamp tongs are smooth. Picking out gold flakes in gold panning is one example of specialized use. Tweezers are also used in kitchens for food presentation to remove bones from fish filets, a technique known as pin boning.
They are also used in the electronics industry, watchmakers, crafts, repair precision devices, circuit boards, and digital products, to pick small items and DIY projects.



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