Rivet Setter And Dies

[eglideride]

Black Friday sale at Tandy- Picked up the Tandy press for $89.99. (in store only, over the weekend) Hoping to find dies somewhere other than Tandy. Die sets at their best discount are $60.00 and UP! ( maybe I should have looked at the Gold Star set up above first?) Picked a couple other advertised items too. Felt like I did ok. I was in Indianapolis IN at a family event- slipped away for an hour- sweet!

[paprhangr]

I got a die holder for my tandy press from black river lazer Allows me to chuck in the tandy mini punch kit that has the 6 punch sizes.

Works great punching sizing holes, screw and rivet holes. The Gold Star hole punch is not right for leather work unless they got one recently.

[eby]

I also use the Gold Star press (the cheaper $80 one.) It works pretty darn well and you sure can't beat $20 dies! I have ligne 20 & 24 round spring snap dies and a small (don't recall the size) single cap rapid rivet die. All work well.

I did find that some ligne 20 snap sockets would not fit over the die. I finally chucked that die in my drill press and power filed it down a bit. Now it fits anything I give it. I also got some brass plated steel ligne 20 snaps from Gold Star with the press, but they are pretty crummy in my opinion and I won't use them at all.

I'll likely be adding a #00 grommet die and ligne 16 parallel spring snap die. I really think the press and dies are a pretty good value. Plus I'm always happy NOT giving money to Tandy...