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I will be honest this kit is not perfect. But none of the interchangable needle kits you can buy actually are, so I can't really count that against this kit.
For the most part, I really like this kit. Here are just a few things it has going for it:
Widely available, and quite affordable if you have a weekly coupon from a certain popular craft store ;-)
Needles are pretty colors which keeps things interesting
Wider range of needle sizes than other kits
Allows you to make a twenty inch circular which, while not as short as the seventeen inch you can make with a certain other kit, is shorter than the twenty-four inch you can make with yet another kit
Metal needles, which I prefer to plastic or wood all types of yarn slip nice and easy
Nice points, not too sharp and not too dull
Individual pieces can be bought separately
Storage case is compartmentalized well and not too ugly
However, here is what it has against it:
Shortest circular you can make is twenty inches, which, while better than the twenty-four inch you can make with one kit, is not as nice at the seventeen inch you can make with another (works with a struggle for a hat, too short for collars)
Cables are a little on the stiff side and the bend where it joins the needle is a little weird HOWEVER it is not as bad as the non-interchangable Boye circulars (I hate those)
Some people complain that the cables and needles come unscrewed frequently but I really have not had a huge problem with this
My biggest complaint Boye needles are weird sizes compared to other brands. While Boye claims to set the standard, pretty much every brand is different in diameter (consistently so) for sizes six, nine, ten, and seventeen. I have no idea why.
This kit would be perfect if the sizes were the same as all other lines and it had a shorter cable option. As it stands, I still really do like this kit and recommend it but rather than actually view it as being all the needles you ever need, you might want to have a few needles of another brand in those four sizes that Boye makes strangely.
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