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Hi this is Kat with beadaholique.com
and I'm here to show you guys how to use the BeadSmith
rotating leather hole punch tool. Now this tool is really interesting because you
actually see that on this side
it gives you all different kinds of hole punches
and sizes that you can do. For example this is
2mm, 2.5mm, 3mm, 3.5mm,
4mm and 4.5mm. So if you look at this
edge of the tool you can actually see how big the hole is.
Now this is the 4.5 so this is the largest size hole that you get to use
with this tool. It's actually a really easy tool to use.
It gives you a really good grip and I wanna show you a couple of examples
here
I'll show you how to do it and in just a second. This is an example of one of the
holes and I just punched it right through
and it looks nice and clean. You can see that there
and even on the smaller cord it buckles out just a tad
but it's still a really solid substantial hole that won't rip through
so let me show you how to use it. So we're gonna do
a two millimeter hole just to show you how it works
and I'm gonna use the smallest cord that I have. So this is the Regaliz
cork cord and you're just gonna place inside
make sure it's centered and you're just gonna
snip down. You're going to hear a pop and that just means that it went through
now this will happen sometimes with the smaller hole and I wanted to show you
this I'm glad it did
so it didn't go all the way through. You can see on the backside
that it's not quite all the way through. That's okay
just take it and line it up very carefully one more time
give it a little extra squeeze
there you go
you can see a little bit of the buckling that I was talking about
you should be okay. It shouldn't ripped through there
so let's show you how to rotate it. Now this is very important don't try to
twist it backwards
because it just won't up no matter how much you try it won't go
so just keep going and it's actually a counter-clockwise
you just snap into place. I'll show you one more time
Let's pretend I want to do the 4 millimeter hole
I'll show you on the darker cord. This is the green cord
go ahead and place it in there
snap
Again
it didn't come out quite right. Let's try it again
takes a little bit of power. So that's how that works
I'll show you a different size
and I'll do size number 3. Let's see if I can do it properly
and get you guys one clean
cut. That sounded like it went
a nice clean cut.
So there you have it. You can use it with the cork,
you can't use it with our leather alternative components that we have
this works great if you're trying to add an extra hole punch to watch band
for example and I think this is a great tool. You can store it like this if you
like
or it actually has this really cool lock feature
you just lock it and it locks it in place so it's nice and streamlined for you
and the way you unlock it is you just give it a little squeeze
and it's unlocked.
There is the BeadSmith Rotating Leather Hole Punch Tool.
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