Tweezers are a must have tool to pick up small components.
For SMD work you may want to look at the following options for pickup tools.
Regular tweezers are fine, but might suffer from being magnetic.
It can be frustrating to pick up a washer or some SMDs then find out you cannot drop it because the tweezers have become magnetised.
This is a good inexpensive set that is non-magnetic and includes different shaped ends.
A while back I discussed what I refer to as a ‘SMD Pen’.
You can see how to make your own at the following thread.
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=219982.0
Letting go of the finial releases the component.
It works great but is limited to no smaller than 1206 SMDs.
One accepted method for handling SMDs is with a vacuum pickup tool.
There is a great video on YouTube to refer to.
Source for air pump:
The only drawback of this tool is you might get a hickey on your finger.
Before you make the vacuum release hole in the syringe, position the tool in your hand with a lure locked nib in place, then pick a comfortable location for the hole.
I used a hot small brass pipe to make the hole seen in the image.
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