Name: Claire & Pat
Message: Hi Paula,
I'm writing on behalf of my wife Claire, and she is asking for your opinion on electric tjanting tools. We have found 2 suppliers on the net, 1 on the Dharma site and 1 on surmastore.com. We are in Ireland and it's difficult to evaluate these tools without actually holding them! She does'nt want to order something from the US that may not be any advance on the usual method.
Your site is very usefull and informative, so well done!

I know of two sources that are closer to you, both of them being in the UK.

Rainbow Silks has an electric tjanting in their PDF catalog, for 23 pounds: see <http://www.rainbowsilks.co.uk/>

George Weil has what must be a very different model judging from its price, which is 65 pounds: <http://www.georgeweil.co.uk/pdf/batik.pdf>

I am not sure how much better these really are than an assortment of tjantings of the old-fashioned sort. The one Dharma sells requires that you melt the wax before adding it to the tjanting. I can't tell whether the ones sold by Rainbow Silks or George Weil have the same limitation. I think it would be best to call them and ask questions before ordering.