hey crafters welcome back to my channel for another exciting Tuesday it's kind
of a rainy Tuesday for me right now hopefully it's not rainy where you're at
and hopefully you've had an awesome week but just to catch it in it I've got a
tutorial coming your way to make your week better so today's tutorial Tuesday
it's gonna be kind of cool because it's gonna be super informational and it's
gonna be a little different than any tutorials I've done so far because I'm
going to show you how to use a specific crafting tool it's really cool so I
think you guys are gonna like this
so today we're going to be looking at snap pliers you might not know what
these are I didn't know what these were either my dad had a project that he's
working on and he's not the particularly crafty type but he's DIY in this big
project and so I'm gonna show you some of the buttons that I'm gonna put on
here but what these you use these to put on snap buttons that's these buttons
like this called snap buns because they make a snap sound when you open and
close them so we'll get to the actual assembly in a minute but first let's
look at all the materials that I have so when my dad got this he ordered a bundle
off of Amazon so I'm just gonna show you the different things that came in the
bundle that we went with and I'll go ahead and put a link in the description
below so you can find the same bundle but first off it comes with the cams
snap pliers and so this is the toilet you used to assemble the buttons and
I'll explain that in just a moment so first let's talk about the different
parts of the tool itself so this down here is the die though kit comes with
several different sizes if you look at these here you can see how there's
different size heads and that's for the different size buttons you use so you
can swap these out really simply there's a set screw right there and it comes
with a handy-dandy screwdriver to be able to get them in and out and this
just pops in pops out you tighten the set screw to hold it in place pretty
simple the next thing you have are these two metal rods I've been calling them
hammers I don't know that they have an official name other than rods and they
look very similar however the difference is if you take off the rubber part you
can see that this one's fairly thick but if we take the rubber part off of this
guy you can see the metal rod at the end and there's a difference in the size and
so that depends on what size snap buttons you're using so we'll get to
that in just a moment the next thing you have is a nice all and this is a very
sharp at the end this is so you can punch a hole through your fabrics before
assembling the button on to the pieces of fabric and we'll get to that also
once we get to the assembly but just to go over what we've got here and then
also the tip that I purchased came with a bunch of bags of these
button so in each of the bags there are all
different colors and sizes there's all this different parts so let's go over
the three different parts now you're gonna actually need four
pieces for each button you're going to need two cap that's the pieces like this
they almost look like little tacks where they've got a round flat head and
they've got this rod that comes through in a point for each button you're going
to need two of these then the other pieces you're going to want are a socket
the sockets look like this you can see that they kind of come in there in the
middle but if you look on the underside you can kind of see that it's not a
smooth pattern so that's how you know that this is the back side and this is
the front and this is a socket so the basic way that these snap clips work is
you have the cap that goes through the hole you punch with your awl then you
set either a socket or another piece I'll show you in a moment together like
this then you load it into the tool and what the tool does is it compresses this
tip here and it basically causes it to bend over this other piece the socket
and so it holds them together with the fabric held in between them the third
piece we have is a stud and this one works pretty similar goes on to the cap
and you punch it down around your fabric and hold on and then just a quick word
this is a socket this is a stud the way you can tell them apart is on the back
of the stud you've got all these little dots and that's to help it hold to the
fabric well but this one you'll notice it doesn't have those little dots so if
you're trying to figure out which is which the sockets don't have the little
dots but the studs do and this is the back of the stud and so the top of the
stud looks like this the basic idea is you use the tool to squish down those
stems and get them out of the way and then they can snap together like that
which obviously we can't do right now because the stem of the cap is in the
way but once we start using the tool you'll be able to see better how these
work so one last thing before I start talking about how to actually use the
tool and snap some of these buttons onto your projects let's make sure that the
tool is using the correct pieces that we need so remember there's two
interchangeable parts there's the die down here at the bottom
and there's the metal rod so how do you know what you want to use
when you get your bag of buttons it'll give this nice little box here or you'll
find someone to packaging it'll tell you either what size it is or what
specifications to use so the buttons that I'm using today it says use pliers
die t5 so to find out which one is the t5 size just look on the rim it's kind
of faint but it'll tell you a size so if it doesn't say t5 don't use that one
because your cap might not fit and you'll end up breaking your button
another way you can tell if you're still not sure is the cap will fit perfectly
inside of there so you can see what this one this is this needs a t5 but this is
not a t5 so it's kind of big in there so there's a lot of wiggle room and you'll
end up messing up your button which you don't want to happen so I've got the t5
already loaded into the pliers the one other thing you want to be aware of is
as I said there's two different sized metal rods if you're not sure which one
it is just pop off the rubber piece and you can look and see this is the thicker
one and my bag of buns that I'm using today says to use the narrow setting rod
so just make sure you have the correct size die and that you're using the
correct size setting broad for your button size so let's go ahead and work
on snapping some buns together so we've got our tool already so I don't need a
screwdriver I don't give these extra guy and I don't need the extra rod I'll just
put those out of the way but I am going to need the pliers my button pieces and
the all so I've got a project I'm working on today where I need to put
these ribbon loops so that way they can snap and unstack nap around the edge of
this fabric here so this is a pretty thick quilt and I'm using this because I
was already working on this project but also it shows how effective these are
then you can use it on a lots of different sides materials so I'm going
to just take my materials and get them lined up the way I want them to being
for this project and you can see here I've got the ribbon on top of the quilt
and so what I need to do is I need to put the first side of my
button here so once I get things lined up looking the way I want them to I'm
gonna take the all again being very careful because it is very sharp and I'm
going to poke it through my fabric I turn it this way so I can get it through
it takes a little bit of force but don't be shy just shove it on through so you
can kind of see how I'm running it through the center of all of that
now this quilt that I'm working with it likes to fluff up really quickly so I'm
gonna leave that in there for just a moment while I gather my pieces the next
thing I'm gonna want is the cap because once we pull the all out we're gonna put
the cap through that hole we're gonna run the stem of the cap through that
hole so I want to hold this together to make sure that this don't become
unaligned because once I pull the all out I'll have these halls and I want
them to stay lined up so in just a quick careful motion I'm gonna pull the all
out take my stent my cap and put the stem of it through the holes in forms if
you come and look at this side you might kind of have to work your fabric down
around it push it down but you can see that that'll be the outside of the
button and now I've just got to put the next piece on so I'm going to start by
taking a socket and putting a socket on this side so I'm just gonna stick it on
there and it's this nice stack like this and this is where the fun part happens
we're going to carefully take our pair of pliers and the idea here is we're
gonna line up the cap in the middle in the plastic die and then we're going to
squeeze the whole contraption and that's gonna get these two to stick together so
I'm gonna carefully slide this along I want to make sure that it doesn't all
come apart but when I slide it on here now I'm just squeezing to hold this in
place I'm not squeezing too hard yet I want to make sure that my cap is lined
up very well on the dime because if the cap is sticking out like that when I go
to squeeze down it's not going to properly attach the piece so I want to
make sure that it's lined up very well in the die and when you're using the
right size die it'll all just slide nicely into place and then this is the
fun part once it's all together and it's centered well in there just screw
and you want to squeeze fairly firmly you don't need a ton of strength because
it kind of leverages your strength but just squeeze that's all there is to it
and now you can see that it took the sharp stem of the cap and it pushed it
down so that way these two pieces stay together so this is the first half of my
step button so it's really cool and not hard at all so all I have left to do is
I just need to put my other side of my snap clip on here and then this piece
will fold over like that and snap so once again this time I'm running just
through the ribbon so you start by taking your all poking the hole now
something to consider is which side do you put the cap through I go this way or
that way well if you think about it we're gonna fold this over like that
so I want the cap to come up from the backside so that way I can have a stud
on the front and it will snap into the socket so pop them all out and run my
cap stem through the hole and just kind of work the fabric down on there so all
we have left to do is take our stud remember those little dots on the back
we're gonna put those against the fabric so just like that and just as we do with
the other side we're gonna line it up on our tool make sure our cap lines up in
the dime and then bring the arm down by just gently squeezing and I just give it
a nice tight squeeze and that's going to adhere them together so now I've got
both sides of my button fastened here it is from the other side and then the last
thing you have to do is just test it and the way you test it is you try to snap
it shut and if it makes a snapping sound when you close and open it you know
you've done a good job so let's test this unseen hey it snapped
woo so this one snapped together which means that we properly assembled this
button and there we go guys that is how to assemble one of these snap clips snap
buttons whatever you want to call them now hopefully when you did this your
snap just as easily as minded however in the
real world things don't always work out as easily as you see what other people
do them so I'm going to talk a couple of troubleshooting things so when you're
working before you even start to snap the clip together you want to make sure
you you're using the correct size die in the correct size metal rod because if
you're not using the correct sizes for your button it's gonna really cause
problems because it won't cause the pieces to adhere together correctly and
it's just gonna be a big mess all over your buttons won't be even and they
probably won't snap close so that's the first thing you want to double check if
you're having problems with a button the second thing to consider is how well
your cap is lined up in the dye if your cap isn't lined up in the dye well when
you squeeze down and the metal rod presses on the stem of the cap it's
gonna bend it sideways right a weird angle or it could even break the pieces
so we had one the other day that we were working on this project and it wasn't
lined up in the cap we thought it was and we squeezed down and it just didn't
work well at all so make sure it is lined up correctly in the cap if you're
not sure you know just bend the fabric out of the way double-check it doesn't
hurt to double check and then a final issue you might have is you squeeze it
and you look at it looks good but the next thing you know the cap and the
socket or the cap and the stud come apart and the issue with that that means
you didn't squeeze hard enough because when you squeeze it flattens the stem
out and so it catches either the socket or the stud whichever piece you're using
but if you don't squeeze it enough it won't flatten enough and it won't catch
the other piece so all you need to do then is just reload it into your pliers
give it a good hard strong squeeze and you should be good to go so I hope this
video helps you guys out this is a really great tool and I wanted to show
you guys this this is very new to me but I am definitely loving it I think it's a
perfect tool for this month because what everybody working on Halloween costumes
of course so I'm not a big sewing person even though I am pretty crafting so I'm
not a big fan of sewing I'm not that great at it either
but with snap Clips like this I can easily you know instead of sewing on a
button I can just clip it on clamp it on and boom it looks awesome really easy to
work with just snap it together snap it closed and it doesn't take any sewing so
it's a really nice alternative for working on
your Halloween costumes and I'm gonna try to come up with some different
tutorials different uses for this and put together a video on that before
Halloween gets here so you can have some more inspiration for how to use this in
your costumes but until then I hope you all have a great week and happy crafting
so I thought this was pretty funny the bundle that I got it came with these
buttons and the brand is I like big buttons because you know I like big
buttons and I cannot lie and then because I think this is from like a
Japanese company I'm just gonna read you some of the instructions on the back so
one of the features it is bulletproof plastic made bottom die in good abrasion
resistance I don't quite know what they need but that sounds pretty good use
clothing maintenance and good helper for the clothing store so lots of handy
information on the back of here if you're trying to figure out how to use
it it'll definitely help you
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