Learn me medical grade splinter removal tools

I am done with trying to use tweezers, needles, razor blades etc. I am talking about removing tiny shards of glass, wood, metal slivers. I am willing to spend some money on this, maybe not 300 dollars but more than you would spend at local stores that sell such items. What say ye?

Duct tape?   Put the sticky side on the splintered body part then pull off tape which could lift the splinters off with it? 

Hahahaha  I have actually tried that! 

Tired of using crude implements. Especially for my wife, she has an uncanny ability to get objects stuck in her tiny fingers...

Back in the day my friends all worked in E.R. departments. One of them had a tool that looked similar to forceps except it had one tiny finger that opened when you moved the handles. It may have been a surgical instrument. I am talking 1-2 mm wide. Tiny

I use a knife on myself, but my daughter is frightened of tweezers. I've taken to elmers glue for her. Pour it on, let it dry, and pull it off.

I've never used them, but Rockler sells these, and if anyone should know about splinters, its Rockler...

I find that visualization is essential. I'll put on my loupes and surgical headlamp, then use an injection needle to tease it out. 
 

The needle's cheap. The loupes and headlamp are not. 

Dial calipers. Seriously. I picked that up years ago on a machinist forum. That and an X-acto knife and I can get any splinter out. 

My friend/co-worker had these small spring loaded very small tipped tweezers with an attached 2x or 3x magnifying glass. Get under a strong light & we could get any really small metal splinters out. Not sure what they were called. Probably something German since they also were kept in a very nice case.

I've used a plastic syringe to pull vacuum on splinters.  A mity vac would do the same

I use a scalpel and a tiny set of hemostats. 

CJ (FS) said:

I've never used them, but Rockler sells these, and if anyone should know about splinters, its Rockler...

I have used one myself, successfully. Kind of knife-like, but less likely to cause extra damage.

I used fingernail clippers if I can't get it with tweezers.  Fingernail clippers cut the skin so you get a better bite on the splinter.

Surgical tweezers and a microscope are the way to roll.

Did a lot of micro-assembly where I used to work and I almost looked forward to getting the tiny splinters that you cant even see but drive you crazy if you rub them the wrong way. Under the scope they look like meteors embed in the earth and the tweezers is a gigantic excavator digging it out.  You also get a sense of detachment when doing it this way because that alien thing under magnification does not look like your appendage.

High end make-up tweezers are the same thing only with pretty paint and cost the same crazy $$$.

Lobsterpennies said:

Back in the day my friends all worked in E.R. departments. One of them had a tool that looked similar to forceps except it had one tiny finger that opened when you moved the handles. It may have been a surgical instrument. I am talking 1-2 mm wide. Tiny

Alligator hemostats. This is what I use. They make a tweezers jaw look huge. 

jharry3 said:

I used fingernail clippers if I can't get it with tweezers.  Fingernail clippers cut the skin so you get a better bite on the splinter.

This is the correct answer.  Tweezers are rarely able to get a grip on something so small which is invariably broken off flush with the skin or even below it.  Clippers allow you to excavate skin on top of the splinter, hopefully revealing a little of one end, at which time you can go in there with tweezers.

I've also had some luck slathering some antibiotic on the site and covering it with a plastic bandage.  In a day or so, the body's reaction to the intrusion and the softening effect of the bandage will allow you to give it a squeeze and pop it right out.

Before digging one out that's bad I sometime use kids teething gel (or just ambisol) to numb up the area. Let it sit a minute and get to work. Then disenfect the whole area after excavation is done.

Multiple good suggestions here. At some point I will probably try them all. Alligator hemostats were what I was thinking of. Injection needle also would be useful. Did not think of using ambisol. Vision would def help. Thanks everybody!

Micrometer and a magnifying light.

If its sticking out AT ALL, the micrometers flat surface will clamp on it and pull that sucker out.

Rare earth magnets for metal splinters.