Yesterday I came home from work to find that the new Bluster Bay Honex-tensioned end-feed shuttle had arrived.  It's beautiful.  I don't like the marblewood as much as I would have liked the boxwood I sent, but it is the weight and the function and the balance that is so notable.  The wood is perfect for this.  It's a shuttle that Bluster Bay mentions is good for weavers with small hands, but even with my huge ham-hands I find it the perfect size for me.  I do also have a shuttle that is their larger size, but I find that it's too big for me somehow, and less wieldy.

The new shuttle also has a Honex tensioner on it, which is a very sensitive tensioner.  I tend to use very fine thread which does not work as well in the hook-tensioned shuttle since they get caught up on the fine metal threads of the hook at the bottom where they are screwed in,  For larger thread, this is not a problem, but it has been a bit of a challenge while using the hook-tensioned shuttle with fine silk thread, especially with fine reeled untwisted tram.

I used Tien's identical shuttle a few weeks ago and was very impressed with how it handled the finer silk thread.  Plus it's a delight to hold.