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I realize up front I'm going to feel like an idiot when I get the answer:biggrin:, but here goes.

What's the point of a stylus? I see people making, selling and buying them, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. My fingers do all the work on my iPhone. What am I missing?
 
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Your finger won't work on your IPhone with a glove on it. That goes for tablets and automotive gps's as well. Up here where its -10 to -20 alot during the winter, I like to keep my gloves on.

It also keeps the finger prints off the screen. I use my tablet as a view screen with clients and it looks better without the smudges.

Do you need a stylus, No. But it is nice to have around.
 
I kinda feel that way also because most of the people that I show the stylus too understand but do not care that they have to use their fingers. I have yet to sell even one.:frown:
 
I use my IPad as a register so after every transaction a customer has to sign on the Ipad screen...after 10 hours of customers signing the screen it looks pretty smudgy even with the smudge free film I bough for it so having the stylus keeps the screen clean for the next customer.

Eugene
 
I have made several. Sold them all. Customers tell me that they use it for signatures and on note taking apps. The rest of the time they use their finger. So writing needs seems to be the key.
 
Ah, got it. I guess none of these things apply to me. Well, the fat finger thing does maybe a little, but I learn so many new words from spellchecker that I find it a positive:smile:.
 
Just started advertising these this weekend. This is my 1st of 2 orders since I started advertising this weekend. Probably the wrong place to post this since the only turning was the shell casing spinning round & round while my lathe tailstock held the drill bit while drilling out the end.

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darrin1200 said:
Your finger won't work on your IPhone with a glove on it. That goes for tablets and automotive gps's as well. Up here where its -10 to -20 alot during the winter, I like to keep my gloves on.

It also keeps the finger prints off the screen. I use my tablet as a view screen with clients and it looks better without the smudges.

Do you need a stylus, No. But it is nice to have around.
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But presumably a stylus won't work in a gloved hand? Don't you need metal to skin contact for a stylus to work?
David
 
Kretzky said:
darrin1200 said:
Your finger won't work on your IPhone with a glove on it. That goes for tablets and automotive gps's as well. Up here where its -10 to -20 alot during the winter, I like to keep my gloves on.

It also keeps the finger prints off the screen. I use my tablet as a view screen with clients and it looks better without the smudges.

Do you need a stylus, No. But it is nice to have around.
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But presumably a stylus won't work in a gloved hand? Don't you need metal to skin contact for a stylus to work?
David
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I am currently writing this using my slimline stylus while wearing a big winter skidoo mit. I think that the capacitance is achieved by the amount of metal in the instrument in contact with the tip. This is why I use tubes in all my stylus. I tried an acrylic with only a stylus tip and no tube. It worked very sporaticly.
 
Correct! It has to be enough of a conductor to disrupt the electrostatic field on the surface. In effect, your finger or the stylus becomes a capacitor. The disruption is measured from multiple points and a location is triangulated.

I hand customers using a CC at the booth a stylus to sign for their purchase... it's led to a couple of add-on buys that way. It's much more natural to sign a CC app with the stylus than a finger.

darrin1200 said:
Kretzky said:
darrin1200 said:
Your finger won't work on your IPhone with a glove on it. That goes for tablets and automotive gps's as well. Up here where its -10 to -20 alot during the winter, I like to keep my gloves on.

It also keeps the finger prints off the screen. I use my tablet as a view screen with clients and it looks better without the smudges.

Do you need a stylus, No. But it is nice to have around.
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But presumably a stylus won't work in a gloved hand? Don't you need metal to skin contact for a stylus to work?
David
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I am currently writing this using my slimline stylus while wearing a big winter skidoo mit. I think that the capacitance is achieved by the amount of metal in the instrument in contact with the tip. This is why I use tubes in all my stylus. I tried an acrylic with only a stylus tip and no tube. It worked very sporaticly.
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Our stylus sales were pretty weak until we switched over to Square for our credit card processing. Since then, I always hand the person one of our styli to sign with. This has resulted in many sales either to that person or a nearby onlooker.
Sataro said:
Just started advertising these this weekend. This is my 1st of 2 orders since I started advertising this weekend. Probably the wrong place to post this since the only turning was the shell casing spinning round & round while my lathe tailstock held the drill bit while drilling out the end.

stylus22-250600.jpg
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Interesting item. However, you might consider using a mini pen clip and larger caliber brass to more closely match the diameter of the stylus trim piece. It also occurs to me that if you swap out the cap or clip AND cap to match the stylus trim piece that the finished product may look more balanced.

(Boy, I'm picky today.)
 
ElMostro said:
I use my IPad as a register so after every transaction a customer has to sign on the Ipad screen...after 10 hours of customers signing the screen it looks pretty smudgy even with the smudge free film I bough for it so having the stylus keeps the screen clean for the next customer.

Eugene
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I've decided the film I put on my iPad smudges worse than the glass surface, and is harder to clean. So it's going away real soon.
 
Given how hard that some people poress down with the styus when signing for their purchases, I am going to stick with the protective film.
 
InvisibleMan said:
I realize up front I'm going to feel like an idiot when I get the answer:biggrin:, but here goes.

What's the point of a stylus? I see people making, selling and buying them, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. My fingers do all the work on my iPhone. What am I missing?
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By the same logic one might ask "what is the point of a pen that sells for more than $1.00?" It is not a matter of "needing" a stylus, the point of making and selling stylus is that buyers "want" them.
 
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Chasper said:
InvisibleMan said:
I realize up front I'm going to feel like an idiot when I get the answer:biggrin:, but here goes.

What's the point of a stylus? I see people making, selling and buying them, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. My fingers do all the work on my iPhone. What am I missing?
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By the same logic one might ask "what is the point of a pen that sells for more than $1.00?" It is not a matter of "needing" a stylus, the point of making and selling stylus is that buyers "want" them.
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The logic behind my question was more similar to "why do people need (or want) pens? Even cheap ones." I wondered why a person would ever want to use a stylus instead of their finger.

Good answers here, though. Now I get it.
 
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Interesting item. However, you might consider using a mini pen clip and larger caliber brass to more closely match the diameter of the stylus trim piece. It also occurs to me that if you swap out the cap or clip AND cap to match the stylus trim piece that the finished product may look more balanced.

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Steve, thanks for the comments. In response to it, the ones that I normally make are either a .30-06 or a .270 rifle casing. At first I didn't think I wanted to go chrome over brass finish. After making them like that, I actually like the contrast between the chrome & brass. This shell is a .22-250 that the customer specifically requested. The .22-250 casing is actually too small for the brass tube to go through the neck, so I have to expand the neck of the casing to make it work. Too me, this size is too small to hold comfortably in your hand. But I designed this one to the customer specs that they wanted. So whatever the customer wants, I will deliver if possible. Thanks again for commenting....:smile:
 
InvisibleMan said:
I realize up front I'm going to feel like an idiot when I get the answer:biggrin:, but here goes.

What's the point of a stylus? I see people making, selling and buying them, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. My fingers do all the work on my iPhone. What am I missing?
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It is a way for us to make a relatively inexpensive and easy to make product that people will snatch up at a great profit.
 
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