Rivet Setter From Ebay?

[Sylvia]

If you do collars now... you could make bracelets and use the snaps. Men tend to like the bigger snaps. Ponder on that a bit.

Crystal Rivets? I would use a lot of caution using a press on Crystals. Wear eye protection, etc. I've never heard of anyone setting Crystals with them.

That said the 6mm items would work ok with the 8mm die. Talk to Dave about the crystals though he may have something or can get something that is better.

DO NOT buy the hole cutter. It's made for fabric or canvas... does not work on leather. You'll hand punch like normal until you find another option. See black river laser for alignment and centering templates

[RavenAus]

For the hole cutter I'm getting a friend with a lathe to turn me some brass anvils and cut a thread on my tandy hole punch, you know the one with the 6 tubes? That way I'll be able to use it for multiple sizes. All you'd need is to get the thread size confirmed and any good machinist or shop could do it for you.

For crystal rivets I'd say you'd be fine with the press as long as you put some poundo board on the bottom anvil and put the face of the rivet on that so the crystal is not hitting metal. It's the same board they have in the packs when you get the crystal or turquoise rivets. In fact, I may just get a big old hole punch and cut out a few pieces of the board to fit onto anvils since I'll get a few from my lathe-owning mate Bit of contact cement and we're sorted

[Sylvia]

Yeah, that was my idea to fit those tubes to it. . The problem is that the height between the top die and the lower piece is too short. And these dies' thread is 10-26 an odd size; especially in the USA. And you'll have problems with the tubes clogging up since there is no where for the punched pieces to go.

What I ended up doing was spending about $30 to have my arbor press' Ram drilled with a 1/2" hole to fit the Tandy punch set handle and a set screw installed. (Although my darling husband had the guy put the screw up too high) it actually works better for me because not only can I use the mini and maxi punch sets, I can use some of my other Stamps too ... AND I don't have to remove change out the dies a lot.

Edited August 12, 2014 by Sylvia

[meagain]

Talked to Dave - he's insisting that the hole punches ARE for leather 'and' fabric - for rivets etc...

http://goldstartool.com/Hole_Punch_Die_for_Grommet_Machine.html

So I'm confused.

He also said there is nothing available for setting 'rim sets' like these things... http://www.rhinestoneguy.com/Images/Products/Rim-Sets.jpg

Scratching head. This is confusing

[Sylvia]

Yes, he JUST told me that... however I really doubt that these will cut through your thick leather.

Take a few deep breaths... this is a learning experience.. being confused is normal.

[Sylvia]

Meagain.

I've got one of the those "piercing die" sets coming. I should have it by Thursday. I've got all kinds of thick 13oz leather here so I'll test it for you... we will find out for sure if it will work. If it does and doesn't require a sledge hammer to get it to cut we'll find out.

[paprhangr]

Gold star hole punch didn't punch holes in my leather

[meagain]

Well if it works in 13oz leather - it'll surely work in 8-9oz tooling leather It's those darned Rivets I need to go thru double that. Rivets scare me. Fortunately I'm not selling the collars!

Oh! Something else I want to do is be able to press (not cut) a hole to be a round shallow indent. All the same depth so this press would be good for that. But I doubt there's a tool for this. I think the limiting factor with this press might be the need for screwing the die in the top vs. the Tandy one holding it in externally. More options I guess.

Also - This looks like the same press to me. He used the Tandy hole punch set in it. Looks the same right?

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=56610&hl=%2Btandy+%2Bpress

[meagain]

Sylvia - did you get your stuff yet? And may I ask what you use your arbor press for?

[Sylvia]

Yes, I did. It took a great amount of effort to make holes in the 10oz leather. All it really did was put a divot in the front and squished out a bit on the back, no hole when I did it by hand. Then I tried with all my weight (and I am no skinny minny) jumped up and down too. No hole. I finally got a whole when I helped it along with a 4lb single jack hand sledge...and smacked the handle, which I don't recommend since it buggered up my rubber on the handle. The hole was still not cut properly... still divoted and I had to pull the slub thing off the back. It left fibers behind, in my opinion you should save your cash. pics attached

The arbor press was originally bought for those stupid 3d stamps Tandy sells, but I used it for my short logo stamp too. Now that it has a hole drilled I can use it to punch, stamp, chisel, etc. As long as a handle will go up in there, I'm good.