sorry to hear, you have such a hard time with rubber-tipped bamboo tongs. I switched to them after metal tongs didn't hold my prints tight enough, I never had the problem you described and if the gloves don't work for you, bare hands probably won't either.The only other thing for you to try may be the one-tray method or developing in drums or a Nova processor.sorry if this is not a lot os help.I'm having a devil of a time with getting chemical transference on my silver gelatin prints in the upper corner where I grab them to move them from tray to tray. If I use the old el-cheapo bamboo tongs with the rubber tips, or if I wear nitrile gloves and even wash the gloves between print batches, sooner or later I get an ugly purple blotch in the corner of the paper. Does anyone have suggestions for how to deal with this, and do they have any preferences for types of paper tongs?
I used a set similar to these. I love them. You only squeeze them to release the print. The springs apply pressure to grip the prints until you squeeze to release them. I have tendonitis so squeezing tongs to hold on to prints between the chemical baths us getting harder as I get older. I pretty much ditched my bamboo tongs.I have these. Excellent. I only have two though and could do with buying a couple more. I also only use tongs going forward and they never touch the next process.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/220454-REG/Kaiser_204067_Stainless_Steel_Print_Tongs.html
I've since moved on to plastic tongs that grip well enough ( I wish they were better, but oh well ) and don't seem to track chemistry from tray to tray. Maybe I'm just being more disciplined. Who knows- but problem seems to be solved.sorry to hear, you have such a hard time with rubber-tipped bamboo tongs. I switched to them after metal tongs didn't hold my prints tight enough, I never had the problem you described and if the gloves don't work for you, bare hands probably won't either.The only other thing for you to try may be the one-tray method or developing in drums or a Nova processor.sorry if this is not a lot os help.
I just got this from the hobby store. Didn't try them yet, but I think they will work better them bamboo one.
https://www.michaels.com/silicone-tongs-by-celebrate-it/M10549519.html
Must be of really hard silicone-rubber to work as tongs.
sorry,this won't help but,I had the best results with the bamboo tongs and rubber tips. maybe you need new ones.I'm having a devil of a time with getting chemical transference on my silver gelatin prints in the upper corner where I grab them to move them from tray to tray. If I use the old el-cheapo bamboo tongs with the rubber tips, or if I wear nitrile gloves and even wash the gloves between print batches, sooner or later I get an ugly purple blotch in the corner of the paper. Does anyone have suggestions for how to deal with this, and do they have any preferences for types of paper tongs?
I resolved this issue a long time ago with new plastic tongs. They're not perfect, but they don't cause the transferrence I was having with the bamboo and rubber tongs.sorry,this won't help but,I had the best results with the bamboo tongs and rubber tips. maybe you need new ones.
I didn't realize this until I started mixing my own pigments, in which case I noticed the water wouldn't remove the pigment stains on my gloves. But just a tiny drop of soap and they cleaned up almost instantly.
No. They made from one banded strip of metal covered with silicone.Description says "Silicone and metal" .
So presumably they are two metal strips coated with silicone and joined at the end with the solid block of silicone .
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