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I am looking to purchase a binding machine to make Mini with among a few other uses. What is your favorite and why? I only know of a few like:
Clinch
Bind it All
Your Story by provocraft
If you know of others, I would look into them also.
Any advice would be great
Sheena
I did have the Bind-it-All a while back and found that I used it all of one time. It's not terribly hard to use, but it just seemed awkward to me, having to be REALLY careful to line things up and measure, etc. (Again, this is ME... perhaps others use it very easily!).
So, I sold it and purchased a Cinch. LOVE IT! It's intuitive to use and (for me, anyway) REALLY easy. I've created an album and a few mini notebooks, you can find here:
I have seen a few youtube vieos but was looking for advise from people that may not be on design teams where they recieved thiers free and they feel the need to only speak positive about a machine ... Thanks for info on the Clinch...Hopefully others will give more advice.
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I had the bind it all and sold it in a week. I couldnt get the bindings to close right, and they were expensive.
I did invest in a rubi coil. It is about $150 to start but the coils are plastic and like $14.00 for 1000 of them.
I have done dozens of catalogs, journals etc with it. Now it really cant do chipboard...I do ceral boxes and it works fine for me..or double up on the boxes after I punch them. It can do 12" at a time too.
I think i got it at laminatorwarehouse.com
I guess it all depends on how much you will use it, and what you want to make with it. I have bound my kids projects and manuals for my husbands work. It has worked out well for me.
thanks for all that info...I will check it out...I willing to pay whatever to get one that I will be happy with. My Son is only 3 and plan on making about of fun learning books and mini books for him to show all special occasions.
Sheena
I had the bind it all and sold it in a week. I couldnt get the bindings to close right, and they were expensive.
I did invest in a rubi coil. It is about $150 to start but the coils are plastic and like $14.00 for 1000 of them.
I have done dozens of catalogs, journals etc with it. Now it really cant do chipboard...I do ceral boxes and it works fine for me..or double up on the boxes after I punch them. It can do 12" at a time too.
I think i got it at laminatorwarehouse.com
I guess it all depends on how much you will use it, and what you want to make with it. I have bound my kids projects and manuals for my husbands work. It has worked out well for me.
I, too, have the Rubicoil. I LOVE IT!!! It has an adjustable paper guide for more control in aligning the paper, and the hole pattern is printed in the white area where the paper goes into the machine, so you can see exactly where each hole will appear on your paper. This machine will punch chipboard but it will not punch matboard. I also love that it uses Spiral Coils.
By the way, where did you find the coils for $14 for 1000?
I used my blue bind-it-all often. When the cinch came out, I bought it and got rid of my bind-it-all. The cinch is so much easier to use. The only thing I dislike about the Cinch is using my 3/4" wire setting to cinch the binder shut. It squeezes too far. I use the 7/8 setting and a piece of chipboard and I get perfect o's on my wire.
After a bit of research and reading reviews I purchased The Cinch. I absolutely love it! It sits a lot and collects dust because I have project ideas....just no time. However, I just finished my Copic Swatch book and bound that...so much fun.
It is extremely easy to use, with only one issue...it does not accept coils smaller than 3/4". I got around that by creating a shim to accept the smaller coils and it works with no problem.
Cathy
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After a bit of research and reading reviews I purchased The Cinch. I absolutely love it! It sits a lot and collects dust because I have project ideas....just no time. However, I just finished my Copic Swatch book and bound that...so much fun.
It is extremely easy to use, with only one issue...it does not accept coils smaller than 3/4". I got around that by creating a shim to accept the smaller coils and it works with no problem.
Cathy
Cathy, would you mind showing a picture of the shim? Or perhaps explaining how you made it?
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Just use pieces of wood 6" long by about 1/4" thick and stack them as per needed. One puts the paper onto the binder coil> place the binder coil into the coil pressing area> place and hold the shim under the presser bar> press down on the handle to close your binder coil.
Cathy
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I love my Cinch! I use whatever I have on hand as a shim - books work well.
I didn't want to mess with adding bars and figuring measurments with the BIA and the Cinch is nice and steady. I bought wires through bindingmachine.com. Less that $40 for 100 wires and very fast and reasonable shipping. Exactly the same wires that BIA and Cinch sell but much, much cheaper.
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I know you've already made your choice and I'm happy for you But I must take this opportunity to plug my YourStory. I LOVE IT!!! The first thing I made with it was a bound card(I guess that would translate to mini book, but really, it was a card). I made the card scored a wide middle, put a bead of hot glue down the middle, and put in two "pages" that contained cocoa mix packets. It was awesome.
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I also have a Rubi-coil and LOVE it! For me, I like it best because when you open your book/journal the pages lay completely flat. I've done many catalogs, booklets of all kinds, post-it-note booklets for purses or school bags etc. You can get the coils in many colors and sizes and aren't as expensive as the wire or comb style. Like posters craftsrlb and bck mentioned, it doesn't punch matboard, but I've never had any problems with lighter weight chipboard, coasters, or some of the cardboard that is on the back of notebooks. I'm not on a design team or a product promoter, just a stamper who LOVES her rubi-coil!
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whats your favorite binding machine and why
