How to Use the Beadsmith Rotary Hand Sewing Leather Punch

The Beadsmith Rotary Leather Punch, Creates 5 Hole Sizes with Die Wheel SKU: XTL-0290 $23.99

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Hi, this is Julie with beadaholique.com inner 1.2 1.5 and 2 millimeters and this is really actually very easy to use this has a box joint which is nice it's got a really nice spring action for you the actual needle stays fixed and to change what size hole you're going to punch you just rotate the dial and it rotates very easily I'm not having to use any pressure here to do so it's made of stainless steel it's a really nice feeling tool in my hand and I don't have the largest hands in the world actually they're kind of um petite size and I can hold this very comfortably so I want to show you quickly how to use this and I've pulled some faux leather a green cord here as well as some cork and I'm just going to show you how to make a punch so you're just going to set the dial to the desired size you don't have to move the needle at all you're just going to place your leather under the needle in between the rotary dial and punch and just like that you make a really simple little hole I'm just going to show you the various sizes here so that was the point eight this is the one millimeter one point two 1.5 and finally to and you can see the graduated sizes one thing I really like about this tool is I can actually really very precisely see where I'm going to punch let's say I was lining at my rivets and I want to make sure I punched exactly right here sometimes with some of the larger tools it can be a little hard to see what you're doing but with this because that needle is so slim and this part of the tool is so narrow and slim I can punch exactly where I want to punch so let me just show you on the cork real quick as well so you see it does punch through the cork very nicely see how quick and easily I am just changing the size here and you'll see the little punch bits in here those are just going to come out the other side as you continue to punch so you're not going to have to really worry about cleaning out those holes at all again this is the beadsmith rotary hand sewing leather punch and it's great for leather faux leather different cords and you can find it on beadaholique.com you