Has anyone tried Prym ergnomic crochet hooks?

[hazeleyednerd]

Wondering if anyone here has tried these hooks (hopefully pic attached) and can give me an honest review please?

Living in NZ, so have to buy from UK/Europe and with postage it's gonna be hefty bill. I have chronic issues with my hands and have until now been using some hooks with handles specially made for me by a wood turner. Unfortunately he is no longer able to make replacements, and with lockdowns etc here in NZ I am unlikely to be able to find anyone else in the foreseeable future.

I use almost a nice grip, my hook handles are much like a fountain pen barrel, maybe slightly wider, and mainly done like that as a way to rest my hand/stop me gripping too tight.

Prym hooks keep coming up in my searches, but they are not a known brand in NZ so impossible to get any reviews on them.

Any comments - good and bad, greatly appreciated.

Thanks :)

I haven't tried them. The ones that I like the best are the soft grip type like Tulip or Clover Amour.

Have you thought about making your own crochet handles with polymer clay? You would use the old-style metal hooks and wrap the handles in clay to suit your grip. Then you harden it by baking in the oven. Or there might be someone in NZ who makes them and you could order them to your own specifications.

This is the clay www.gordonharris.co.nz/category/3584-fimo-soft-blocks and there are a few YouTube videos of how to do it.

I have one, I find it a bit squeaky, which I dont like. I like the Knitpro wooden ones though, but they're quite slender.

Thanks for the responses.
Re squeak, this was something I was worried about. I am so used to my metal tip hooks that are so quiet to work with.

Re polymer clay, have tried a few variations of those. Just cannot get it quite right. I have very shitty grip, and majorly oversensitive hands, and the clay just doesn't work. My friends have benefitted from some pretty snazzy hooks out of the experiments though :)

I might just have to keep using my current ones, which I have used for so long the metal hook tips have warped, until we get free of lockdowns and I can try find another wood turner.

hated them, then accidentally sat on one and snapped it🤦‍♀️

I built up mine with a kind of wrap bandage, a self adhesive doesn’t-need-a-pin type. In the UK it comes in a deep blue.

Love them! Do find one can squeak but I wash it and use it with wool next time and it’s fine. I’m a tight crocheter and with them being inline hooks, they have pointier tips so can get them into my stitches better and can draw my hook through the final part of a dc in one movement, rather than the two I was having to do before (separately through each loop on your hook IYSWIM)

I’d get one - they’re not bad prices - and see if you like it

Can you buy just one perhaps, in the size you use most?

I wasn't too keen tbh. I found they squeaked too and the yarn didn't slip very easily over them

I have the chunky set which is 8mm + and really like them, but I prefer the silicone handled knitpro waves for smaller hook sizes.

@Marcipex

I built up mine with a kind of wrap bandage, a self adhesive doesn’t-need-a-pin type. In the UK it comes in a deep blue.

Sounds like kinaesthetic tape. Kind of crinkly, stretchy and sticks to itself without feeling sticky.

I prefer Addi Swing hooks - I find they are best for not making my hands ache

Can you keep the wooden handle and replace the hook? It might be easier to find someone to do that for you than to find a new woodturner.

I don't know how easy this would be to find in New Zealand, but this might work for you. You insert aluminium hooks to use it. www.knittingco.com.au/products/ergonomic-aluminium-crochet-handle-boye

Its the international shipping that makes it such an effort to try them out. To make it worthwhile I really do need to buy several in one go.

Unfortunately re replacing the hook, not possible to do without damaging the handle due to the way they're glued in. We have tried, and it causes too much surface damage to the handle and I then can't hold it.

I have been very spoilt these past few years to be able to use these beauties. So I will have to weigh it all up and work out if I can risk the cost.

Picture of one of mine attached for reference. You may see why I really am not sure about what to replace them with. The handle is made to fit the width and curvature of my hand and my grip.

I really do appreciate all of the suggestions and comments and am looking into every one of them, even those i've considered before, just in case.