I'll be checking on some of the suggestions. I'm in the process of replacing my big box of 500 Dritz quilting pins with (more expensive) thinner gauge pins but I have not yet settled on exactly what I want -- some of the fancy topped pins are so heavy . I still like the length, I like having the head like on the Dritz ones. I like being able to pin every step of a project and I like having hundreds of pins, but I think maybe 200 is my eventual goal. I try to do all of a set at a time, but I also try to get up and move and change tasks every 15 minutes or so, so maybe I don't want/need so many.