Tilhumt Electric Bead Spinner for Jewelry Making, Stepless Speed & Forward/Reverse Direction, Wooden Bead Spinner with 18000 Seed Beads and 2 Large Eye Needles for Bracelets Necklace and Waist Chains

The overall beader is ok, just that the needle broke the first day and the second needle broke the second day.

I ordered this as I hoped it would make it easier/quicker to string beads onto crochet thread and laceweight yarn to make beaded crochet items. When I received it in October, I watched several YouTube videos because there are no instructions included. I thought I had it figured out, but it ended up being a frustrating mess. The beads either went onto the thread in ones and twos, or they flew out of the bowl, or they just stayed put in the bowl. I could've strung as many by hand in the time I spent working with this. So, I set it aside rather than give an immediate review. While off work for the holidays, I set it up again to see if I could improve my skills. I had better results, but not by much. Beads went onto the thread a little more quickly, but I still couldn't get the nice, even, multiple beads at a time look like in the videos I watched. I don't believe it's a fault of the bowl and its spinning mechanism; I just think you need practice and patience to get it to work like it should. Therefore, I'm only deducting 1 star due to lack of instructions. The unit itself and the beads and tools are all worth the purchase if you already know how to use it or are willing to put in the time to learn how.

This is a well-appointed kit that comes with string and stretchy beading cord; two needles that are long and very sharp with a curve at one end to grip beads as they go by in the rotating bowl, and a loop at the other end for the string/cord so you can easily transfer beads off of the needle; many seed beads in baggies, including gold metallic, silver metallic, a few iridescent colors, and other bright as well as pastel colors. There were also thin jump rings and matching lobster claw clasps to finish out a piece such as a bracelet, necklace, or anklet. Of course it also includes a spinning bowl on a base with a motor. There weren't any instructions included, which I found a little intimidating, but through trial and error I figured out that the switch on the USB connector has a tiny toggle button for counterclockwise-stop-clockwise motion, and a tiny dial to control the speed. For the rest of the instructions I watched YouTube videos in disbelief as expert beaders (which I am not) lightly touched their sea of rotating beads with their curved needle and happy beads jumped and lined up along the wire at the pace of more than an inch a second. This was not my experience. I wasn't sure what speed to use or at what angle to hold the needle. The bowl of the unit I received was slightly warped or not on its axis straight, causing the tip of the needle to catch on the wood, or to be too far from the beads for them to leap on. After studying what other people were doing online and practicing with this bowl and needle, I was able to urge some beads onto the needle at a pace way faster than stringing seed beads by hand, but slower than the pace of the YouTubers. I had some luck when fashioning my own hook out of a length of 22 gauge beading wire (as recommended by one of the YouTubers), but also when the bowl caught the hook, the whole thing would bend. Even the slowest setting had this effect, and the bowl does not spin manually but only with the motor. Finally I discovered that a couple of the seed beads were not big enough to go over the tip and bend of the needle! When they jumped onto the needle they stopped the flow. After pulling them off the needle tip and setting them aside, the process worked pretty well. Whew! I don't know if the slightly off-kilter bowl had any negative effect after all (besides making me feel slightly seasick) and I don't know whether the too-small beads in the one baggie mean that there are others or if they were anomalous. This will be a time-saver over all, and it's fun once you "get" it, and probably not all the kits will include the minor-to-moderate frustration of the wobbling bowl and the roadblock beads that held up the process.

This bead spinner is such fun to use and cuts beading time by at least 80%. Very simple to use. Of course you can't make any kind of counted design, but if you just want multicolored or a couple of colors, this is the way to go. My granddaughter and I had so much fun making strech jewelry using this. I think it's a little bit overpriced and should probably be closer to $20.

The media could not be loaded.  The good things:The beads are all separately packaged and tightly sealed. The colors are bright and vibrant so will make lovely pieces! There are many colors to choose from. The unit itself spins well and moves as I expected it would. The set comes with jump rings and claw clasps to make bracelets as well as string and plastic spool of string. All of the items needed to successfully make a bracelet or necklace are included, minus pliers.The not so good:There are no instructions whatsoever! I went to YouTube to find out how to start the process and thankfully had a general idea how it worked so it wasn’t too bad. The video shows it both working and not working as planned. The way you hold the needle is key! Also, I had to figure out how to tie off the ends and I had to use a crimp end that I already had on hand.All in all I think this is a good beginner set but I don’t know that I would gift it to someone if you know they don’t fully understand how to use it already. It would be very frustrating.

I enjoy making beaded jewelry but do not enjoy the time spent stringing loose beads onto a string to start my project. A Bead Spinner takes the drudgery out of stringing and this Spinner works well. It will spin clockwise and counterclockwise to accommodate right and left handed beaders.The failing part of this kit is the lack of instructions for the operation of the Bead Spinner itself. Learning how to spin beads onto a string can be picked up quickly by watching a video, one of which is on the Spinner site along with many others on YouTube. But the video can't show you the details about the Spinner you have actually purchased and this is the problem - no instruction about their Bead Spinner. I had to deduct a star for this shortcoming.This Spinner kit contains many packages of loose beads, beading string and elastic along with Spinner needles and jump rings and lobster clasps. Fifteen minutes of quiet time to practice the technique and you will be putting together your first simple beaded bracelets.

This is extremely difficult to use . This product has just been collecting dust because of how hard it is . There is no type of instructions that comes with this so minus points for that .