Low prices, high quality!

Some businesses quietly raise their prices then have 'sales' - we haven't raised the prices on most of our items in over four years. People appreciate honesty in pricing and real bargains, not false savings.

Combine this with our flat-rate *Shipping (same price to ship one or 100 items) and this affords you a great way to get more for your money.

We stock a large variety of hard-to-find, high quality items: magnifiers and loupes, microscopes, micrometers and calipers.

Many of the items are used by schools for crafts and science projects (check out our As-Is section).

Collectors and hand-crafters find our magnifiers and microscopes quite useful to see minute details or check for markings.

Professional printers will find a wide range of magnifiers - some designed to keep in their pockets thoughout the day to check print registration and dot patterns as well as many press and pre-press items.


*in the continental U.S.

National Business Media (NBM); Long Beach, CA; July 30 - Aug. 1, 2009

More information: http://www.nbmshows.com/

From the expo producers:

The Sign Business & Digital Graphics Show, The PrintWear Show, and The Awards & Engraving Show – all under one roof!

For anyone involved with awards and recognition products, custom gifts, promotional products, screen printing, digital textile printing, heat-applied graphics, signs and banners – this is THE place to go this summer to focus on your primary market while also researching complimentary products.

Three days of exhibits and a four-day Education Conference with seminars and workshops.

From us:

Don't forget! When it comes to handing out a promotional item, you want something your prospects and customers will keep and use – something of real value! Refrigerator magnets and coffee mugs (the ordinary advertising specialty products) simply don’t cut it anymore.Our custom imprint magnifiers and production tools are sold exclusively through our distributors. Call your advertising specialty distributor or contact us for a referral to one in your area.

Unique Stereoscope (3-D) Viewer

3-D is back! Movies, TV, comic books - you can even use Stereoscopes to view images on the Internet! These are sometimes known as ‘3-D viewers’ – and as a children’s toy ‘View-Master.’

One inventive customer called us to see if we had any loose lenses – he wanted to make his own Stereoscope. He was extremely happy when we were able to help him with his project – so happy, in fact, that he sent us one of the homemade wooden stereoscopes he’d made. We thought it was pretty impressive and decided to let other people know how to do this.

Instructions for making your own stereoscope viewer: http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/stscp/stscp.htm, http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Stereoscope. Please contact us to see if we have any loose lenses available and you too can make your own Stereoscope!

There are Stereographic clubs all over the world and competitions for those interested in making their own Stereo or 3-D images: http://www.stereoscopy.com/isu/memberclubs.html

Stereoscopes have been used and enjoyed by U.S. Presidents and British royalty - in 1851 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert observed one at the London Crystal Palace Exposition and were later presented with one for their own personal use. They come in many shapes and sizes and have developed over the decades to include ones that now can be used to view 3-D images on computer monitors: http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Stereo-Viewers.html, http://home.centurytel.net/s3dcor/sgraph.htm, http://www.ignomini.com/photographica/3dhandviewers.html

If you would like to know more about this unique hobby there are lots of web-sites but these will help you get started: http://www.stereoscopy.com/, http://www.bitwise.net/~ken-bill/stereo.htm, http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/stereosc.htm, http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/stereo_history/text/historystereog.html, http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/r_virt_mm5.html, http://www.cinti.net/~vmmasell/Viewers.html