I'm still waiting to buy my Roxanne thimble, until then I have a brass colored knock-off I got at JoAnn's that I really like. I have longer nails so it allows my nail to be exposed then it has a band around my finger that is adjustable. I bought one that had rubber inside but the rubber came out about the second time I used it. Before that I had a full thimble that had a ridge around the top so the needle wouldn't slip off. I used that for a long time. I think I have one of each thimble made. I don't really care for the leather ones. The black one, I kept getting the eye stuck in the leather, that wore out the thread. The white one is just too long, felt like I couldn't bend my finger. The brown one had the coin on the pad of my finger and I push with the end of my finger. I liked that one and I thought about ripping out the side seams and resewing it where I wanted the coin to be on my finger. Figured I did enough ripping out though.lol