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Thing it's just occurred to me to wonder: lobster-claw clasps vs other kinds of clasps. Are there accessibility issues? Like, are there people who can handle bar-and-toggle clasps or S-clasps with ease but not lobster-claw clasps?

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Lobster claws are a PITA for me, accessibilitywise. Not true for everyone of course, but. Yeah.

*nodnod* Thanks

Are lobster claws the ones you have to depress a lever to make the clasp open? I HATES THEM. I just don't have enough fingernails.

Yes, those are lobster claws. *puts bar-and-toggle and S-clasps in the Fire Mountain Gems cart*

Yeah, many people have issues with them. (While other people need them, because necklaces leap off their necks if not firmly secured. *raises hand*)

We use S-clasps by default, or bar-and-toggle if the S clasp would look funny, but we also have magnetic clasps and lobster clasps and spring-ring clasps and bunches of others, in case people need or want them restrung.

I dunno how I'd replace the lobster claws on the necklaces I've got without shortening the necklaces or taking all the beads off to put on a new piece of beading wire. In future maybe if I hooked jump rings to the ends of the necklaces and attached the clasps to them?

*nod* That might work! We, honestly, do just re-string on new beading wire if need be, though.

Lobster claws are a pain in the tail when my hands hurt, but they can't be beat for security of necklaces not falling off.

Unfortunately, things that do rival them for security are even harder to operate (safety chains, and the like.) =/

I like toggle clasps, because they're very nearly as secure and much easier to operate, for me. But that's just me.

Got it, thanks!

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