I want begin manipulate with thimbles, but I have my fingers very little.
Someone have some ideas how I can stop the thimbles on my fingers because they is too much wide for my fingers?
Thanks in advance.
Roberto.

Do you mean the thimbles are LOOSE and fall off your fingers easily? If so, you might want to try putting adhesive tape on the inside, or even wood filler and shape it to your fingers.

Yes, I mean that, but I have a poor english....
The thimbles are loose loose and fall always.
But if I use the adhesive tape, it's awkward perform the thumb palm?

The tape goes on inside of thimbles not on your fingers. Can you find someone to custom make thimbles to fit your fingers?

Pete is right.
I put colored electrical tape to match an old set of Sam Berland thimbles upon which I learned the moves way back in ....well, a good while ago...the electical tape has a "give" to it and it worked really well. You may also want to try painting a little bit of liquid latex (the kind you can buy at a halloween store with cheap makeup stuff) into the interior. It has a nice "grip" effect too but will need tending and replacing. Good luck.

I personally don't like thimbles much. Performing with them, I get people that go, WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS??? Most of the thimble sets these days don't look anything like thimbles either. I prefer billiard balls, or candles.

I too have small fingers, and use metal thimbles from a sewing shop.
They come in different sizes and will nest easily.

You must not perform thimbles very well. I get great reactions and much later, people tell me that the thimbles really blew their minds. No one has ever said. "What are those things?" Is this really your experience or just your speculative opinion?

Best regards,
Glenn Godsey

I personally don't like thimbles because I feel they're too small for stage use; the audience can't clearly see what you're working with. Another consideration is that they're becoming slightly more of a "foreign object", since fewer people have time to sew these days. This can lessen the impact of working with an object commonly found around the house. Because of this, I'd keep it as close to the original object as possible- take eddieloughran's advice, use metal thimbles from a sewing shop, in a small enough size to fit your fingers.

Hmmm, though that leads me off on a bit of a tangent- has anyone ever used the larger "collectable" type thimbles in a routine? The ones about the size of a shot glass? I think there might be a few possibilities with these, since they can be palmed in a similiar manner to billiard balls...

This is a myth that keeps being regurgitated every time the thimble subject comes up. I open my platform and close-up with some thimble manipulation while I chat with the audience about sleight-of-hand. In the past couple of months, I have done thimbles for a group of boys aged 12 to 15 and a group of couples aged 18 to 22. I say, "Do you know what these are?" They nod yes and some say "thimbles" out loud. This is in spite of the fact that I am using large, brightly colored plastic magicians' thinbles such as the Vernet or the Automatic.

I teach a lot of young college students and, out of curiosity about sociological changes, I ask them things like, "How many of you carry a hankerchief?" (answer: zero).

But, the notion that younger generations don't know what thimbles are is hogwash. They do know.

I remember a few years ago, a lot of magicians were worried that younger generations were losing awareness of cards and didn't know one card from another. Well, the explosive popularity of poker has taken care of that one.

Best regards,
Glenn Godsey