Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Hand Operated Yarn Wool Fiber Winder Roller by CurtzyTM

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Really easy to use once you get it clamped down

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2015

Really easy to use once you get it clamped down. It is a little difficult to get an entire skein to fit on it but does fit if you try hard enough. It's worked great to organize my yarn that I've only used partial skeins of. Anyone who knits or crochets should definitely have a winder. The price was great, it did take a while to get, but it was worth it.

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Zhuomin Ding

Winder with plastic gears won't last long!

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015

It has plastic gears! Plastic gear won't last long! I saw another winder had plastic gears. So I chose this one which did not said if the gears were plastic or not. I took a chance bought it. It turned out the gears are plastic. I am very disappointed.

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Jaime

Really easy to use once you get it clamped down

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2015

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Zhuomin Ding

Winder with plastic gears won't last long!

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015

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K. Sikes

Winder

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2015

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This arrived on time and was packaged sufficiently. It works ok I guess. The "cake" you end up with is kind of mushy, not well formed. Frankly, it's not worth the effort. Wish I had spent a little more money and gotten a better model.

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LORIE Bongiorno

Yarn winder

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2014

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I chose this rating, because it does not come with spindle sleeves. Toilet paper cardboard can be used as a sleeve with a little preparation, such as making a cut and then re-rolling the cardboard to taper slightly, then taping into place. If toilet paper cardboard is used intact without these alterations, the winder makes a 2 inch wide roll instead of the almost 4 inch wide roll.

I was also disappointed with the design, there is no tension when winding, the yarn tends to wind up loose and very sloppy. The only way to keep this from happening is to set up the winder then hang on to the yarn to create tension manually, otherwise the yarn tends to tangle or wind right off of the spindle.

I did however find it did alleviate the stress I have in my hands from hand rolling my yarn into balls. No hand cramps occurred even with having to make sure I kept tension on the yarn. I would still recommend this product, even with its flaws, to people with carpal tunnels and tendinitis, because it does not aggravate these conditions.

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Stuart Jones

Excellent quality

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2014

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I've had almost the exact same product for about 30 years which finally "gave up the ghost". This replacement feels just as solid and well made as my previous roller, and so far, I have absolutely no issues with it. I highly recommend it!

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S.E Abel

yuk

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2017

Like many said, it makes a sloppy mushy cake, i hate this thing with a passion.

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Darryl Nichols

I bought this from a LYS and have been disappointed. As others have mentioned

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015

I bought this from a LYS and have been disappointed. As others have mentioned, you have to tension the yarn but even doing this yourself you end up with a sloppy cake. Would not recommend.

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