a new toy
i’ve wanted a wire-o binding tool for a long time, but they can be expensive! we had one at my first job, and we’d use it to create gorgeous annual reports and proposals… and occasionally i’d make a journal or two for personal use. over the years i kept telling myself that one day, i will spend $300-$400 and get my own binding machine — in fact, last year i cut down a ton of scrap paper specifically for wire bound journals. but i just couldn’t make the investment.
a few weeks ago patricia of a little hut wrote about the cinch binding tool. how did i not know about this little machine?! it’s perfect for what i want to make, and at around $100, it’s much more affordable. mine arrived this week, and i’ll be playing with it over the next few days.
happy weekend!
August 12th, 2011 at 11:55 am
And it has a centipede on it. That’s a very important selling point.
August 12th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
jen that is so cool. Have fun. I love when stuff like that happens!
August 15th, 2011 at 11:04 am
At my first Arch-y job, we called it the “huc-pun-bin”, as that was the mftr name printed on the massive machine we had to haul down from a shelf in order to bind specification manuals. We said it like it was a real word, so obvious to anyone with a fraction of intellegence. Hucpunbin, hucpunbin… It was a brillant, massive, gunmetal gray machine that could have punched through a hand (in a lovely, even perforation). Nothin but respect.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
ooh, what a fun little magnet! it would be useful for many things…
August 18th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
um, that should have been *gadget*…not magnet!