Just like to pass on something that I came across on e-bay whilst searching for a replacement soldering station since my original little monster decided to blow its heating coil.
Its a set of soldering accessory tools primarily designed for cleaning and manipulating wires etc. whilst soldering them down. These are double ended tools and whilst the brushes and other odd looking bits might not be of any other use, there are at least four ends which look identical to the rigging tools available from CMB and many others.
These are various hooks and 'grippers', perfect for pulling the rigging thread into position.
Well worth a look and much cheaper than the ones I bought! Just put "soldering iron accessory set" in the e-bay search engine and look for a set of six blue handled tools.

Best Wishes

Glad you found it useful Wilfy, I might get a set myself too (might even use some of them for soldering!!)