My wife’s sister, who is a doctor, recommends a normal syringe with water. Just squirt it in to the ear.
Side note, the sound of gravel under my feet when I walked out of the clinic was amazing .
Yes, same here. It was the sound of rushing air, cycling home from the doctor.
I hear that.
OH, I thought you were being clever… not much of a spoon. I don’t think you could even eat Lucky Charms with it.
But being of Czech ancestry on my dad’s side, I now want one.
The concern could involve employment. The tool is featured on his “look what I designed!” page.
I do that at least three days straight prior to flights.
Not a cleaver either. 
The name probably comes from the same thought process that gave us the Arkansas toothpick.
Wow, that’s a lot of maintenance for ears, thanks for enlightening me / us.
It’s too late to stop people from dismissing each other’s ear conditions as lack of hygiene or whatever but here’s something to know: There are two different kinds of ear wax. If you are blessed with the dry kind, then you will rarely have issues - it will just fall out. If you have the sticky kind it can build up and require water flushing or more to remove. A large bulb syringe with hot water works well enough - anything that requires more than that can be done by your doctor. Tools like this are just an infection waiting to happen.
I had a similar experience. The thing I wasn’t expecting that went with it was the loss of balance - I was wobbly for a few hours until it settled down.
Ironically my PCP has suggested long hot showers to deal w allergies, bit of a catch 22 
What ?
Aww, that article didn’t even mention the earwax/body-odor link.
Looks like the kind of thing that might be found up someone’s anus.
On the subject of q tips, I really wonder about all these people who supposedly puncture their eardrums. Are they stupid or clumsy?Seems like anyone with a modicum of dexterity and knowledge can avoid puncturing skin with a blunt object.
I’m sure the pornhub admin wants to know if this device has any other uses.
But the doctor in my head says no.
Looks like the handle would fit my drill. Where can I buy one?
I am in the group of people who doesn’t typically have a lot of built-up earwax, but is sometimes plagued by the overwhelming compulsion to get it out of there anyway.
I will gladly stipulate that no one should ever put anything smaller than their elbow into their ear – and Q-Tips strike me as stupid because you’ll just end up with lint-reinforced impacted wax – but personally I use a 1.5mm steel crochet hook and sometimes it is very satisfying.
I’m not sure about this design, but if I did choose to 3D print something similar, it wouldn’t be the first ear-rootin’ tool I had printed.
If you read German: this is the oldest reference I could find to the term (in the five minutes of research I did, strictly online and in my lunch break).
It’s from the mid 18th century and interestingly enough at this point at least it doesn’t refer to a lance or spear but to a club, specifically one that Duke Ferdinand says would be used to “open the ears” of the rebellious Bohemians. So I think it’s more metaphorical even than “Arkansas toothpick”. It’s less “this looks a bit like an ear spoon” and more “you won’t listen to me? Well maybe you’ll listen to this”.
I assume the name (which I had never heard before) became canonised as a polearm only later, by the classification-obsessed arms researchers and collectors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
