Fabric button,Adjustable circle cutter,How to make a button – American Button Machines

Author : Jim Knight

ABM offers discount pricing on high quality fabric covered button machines and fabric button supplies.

Our fabric button makers allow you to complete a variety of fabric covered button projects.

Buying Button Parts

“Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.” - Mark Twain (1835-1910), famous American writer and humorist.

Celebrated author and dashing dresser Mark Twain knew of the importance of buttons in enhancing a man’s appearance. With the correct buttons, you can convert the most boring of clothes into a fashion statement to reflect your own personal sense of style. Moreover, it can help put your point across in the most unobtrusive way. Think campaign buttons.

Campaign buttons are “used in an election as political advertising for (or against) a candidate or political party, or to proclaim the issues that are part of the political platform.” The use of campaign buttons is nothing new; they date back to the time of George Washington, the first President of the United States. It’s their popularity that has increased over the years, as modern methods of mass manufacturing have made it an effective campaigning tool, a la bumper stickers.

A machine, by definition, is something that makes manual tasks easier, and same is the case with button machines. With button machines, it is possible to produce large numbers of customized buttons with minimum costs and little effort. Such machines can range from simple mechanical products retailing for less than $500 to complex electricity-operated equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars and capable of churning out more than 1,000 buttons per hour.

Often have you heard the phrase “the sum is more than the parts.” In simplest terms, it means that several individual components, each useful or valuable in isolation, become even more so when combined together. The net usefulness or value of the combination is much more than a simple summation of the individual contributions.

In such a situation, if one of the components develops a fault, often you have to change the entire assembly, resulting in considerable overheads. Thankfully, that is not the case with button machines supplied by companies like American Button Machines.

With these machines, not only can you mix and match to select the components you like, you can also replace any defective component such as circle cutters and punches without having to replace the entire machine. Also, it is possible to buy the raw materials for making customized buttons - shell, mylar, mirror, pinback, etc. - in a wide variety of permutations and combinations. When shopping at a reputed manufacturer of button making supplies, you can also purchase equipment to display your creations, such as racks and easels. Specialized software that allowyou to design your own buttons are also available on CDs.

Therefore, the things you should look for while buying button parts and related equipment are:

* Technology - It’s always recommended that you buy the latest technology on offer.* Flexibility - You should be able to mix and match components as per your requirements. You should not buy anything that restricts how to use them.* Operation - Ease and speed of operation should definitely be factors that determine your purchase.* Price - As always, price is an important determinant. If the aforementioned points are satisfied but at a prohibitive price, the products are not recommended.

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Circle Cutters Uses

“If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.”

Anonymous.

Circle cutters are basically instruments that allow you to cut perfect circles, every time, all the time. Each such instrument has a compass-like structure combined with a cutting blade and usually comes personalized to accommodate a range of radii. Note that the compass referred to here is NOT the navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles, BUT the technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs.

A circle is one of the simplest, yet at the same time, one of the most complex of shapes. We see circles around us everywhere - the sun, dishes, wheels, etc. - but try drawing a circle on a piece of paper using just a pen or pencil, and you will realize the perfection of this “simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of those points in a plane which are equidistant from a given point called the center,” as goes a definition of the circle.

When working with different fabrics, it is often required to cut perfect circles in the cloth. Similar requirements exist when working with paper and glass. As you may have already realized, it is practically impossible to create perfect circles with constant radii (radius is the fixed distance between the center of the circle and its edge, also called circumference) while drawing freehand. Here’s where circle cutters come in.

Circle cutters can be used in the following situations:

* Cutting circles in fabric or cloth to make specific patterns.* Cutting circles in paper for scrapbook purposes.* Cutting circles in glass for decorative purposes.* Cutting circle in drywall for utility purposes.

Although one circle cutter can often work on multiple surfaces, there are specific cutters available for different materials.

You can follow the steps given below to make optimum use of your circle cutter:

* Always do all your cutting on a cutting board or mat. You are also advised to wear gloves for your own safety.* Position the base of the circle cutter at the point where you want the center of the circle to be.

* Adjust the blade of the circle cutter by loosening the screw located on the cutting arm. Bend the arm until the desired radius is achieved. Once the radius is fixed, tighten the loosened screw to lock the blade in place.* With the circle cutter ready for operation, place the palm of your hand firmly over the top of the cutter and turn the cutting arm through an entire circle, taking care to exert sufficient pressure to make the cut. If you have any doubts whether you exerted enough pressure, it’s better to continue on to make a second round before you lift the circle cutter.* Do not try to work the blade in the opposite direction, as the system has been configured to rotate in one direction only.

With the circle cutter in hand, you no longer have to worry about not cutting the perfect circle. Whatever be your material of choice - wood, paper, cloth, glass - there’s a circle cutter just right for you!

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