While you can get by with just your basic household iron and really and truthfully just the first piece of plastic like an old credit card. These two items that I'm showing first are a couple of my favorites. This is the clover iron to exit just won't heat miniature iron. It's pricey but if you go on Amazon to located lots of keeper. Many irons will pop up. As long as it is a variable temperature. You really are going to go wrong. This makes life much easier when doing teeny tiny dog hook even better from microsized is an adjustable woodburning tool that has many points included. There's a tool that looks like the ace of spades that is a perfect miniature ironing tip it's not with every single woodburning kit that you'll find but if you locate that its perfection and if you get one that also capable of using ace X-Acto knife blade you can heat up the tip of that blade to make actual buttonhole slots. If you ever want to bake a piece miniature closing removable I will cover that in an pattern probably though for Barbie doll Barbie doll are much more likely to have removable closing. It's not that you can't do it 112 scale of course you can. This just a bit more federally but the technique is the same. All right, this is the only one that you absolutely have to have just your basic household are. I do like the ones that have the nonstick souls. But you don't absolutely have to have a nonstick soul. If you are using a test launch sheet to protect the bottom of your iron as you were pressing out fusible's, or glued fabrics, then Teflon on the actual iron itself is not a necessity 1/2 sound though that the more recent irons are getting higher and higher in wattage and item about you, but at least when I'm using it. The studio those that go over 1200 W have an the tendency to flip circuit breakers, so pay attention if you're buying your iron new that you're keeping it at a reasonable wattage