Making Memories: Instant Setter
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I’ve had this eyelet setter for several years. Before this I had the regular tool kit that had the small hammer and eyelet setter tool that you had to bang on….loudly… several times to make a hole and then bag again…..even louder…. to set the eyelet. It just didn’t work for me. For one thing, even though I mostly do all my bookin’ outside of my home, I’m with a group, and would have to remember to call out “hammering!” every time I wanted to set an eyelet, or else I would either upset the lady sitting at the same table with me as she’s trying to do her handwritten journaling and I’m hammering away, or startling nearly everyone else in the room! If I try to do my bookin’ at home, it’s nearly always after my daughter has gone to bed, and I don’t want to wake her up with the hammering. So, I invested in the Instant Setter by Making Memories. While not “silent” it is quieter than hammering. One (slightly loud) click to make your hole and one (at the most two) clicks to set the eyelet. It usually doesn’t result in an eyelet back that is “perfectly” spread, but one usually hides the back of an eyelet anyway, so no biggie to me. You can adjust the tension on it, so if you have an especially soft eyelet, make it hit less hard and just do it a couple of times to get it as flat as you like. It’s easy to change setter heads, just slip in a new one and it’s magnetically held in place until you take it out. It’s a little on the hard side to clean out the puncher tool as you can’t stick a needle straight in, but there is a hole on the side to do the job, it just takes a bit of doing.
All in all, a great tool for eyelet setting.
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Happy Bookin’!