Coil Cutter Crimper Pliers

An Essential Tool for Coil Binding Books

The Hand-held coil crimper pliers are used to cut and crimp the coil to prevent the coil from spinning out of the book.  Alternatively for production book binding you might consider the Akiles Crimp@Coil Electric Double-Sided Coil Cutter, Crimper.

How To Cut and Crimp Your Plastic Coil Bound Book—See Illustration

Once you have coiled your book crimping is made easy with the crimping cutting and crimping pliers.  Orient your book with the coiled side toward you as shown (1), then on the right end of the book as shown (1), orient the pliers with the dot facing up (2).  Open the pliers and grasp them around the first coil that exits the book (3). While keeping the pliers level with the book, snip the coil through. The pliers will finish the coil with a “L” shaped end (4) facing the book. This helps the coil from backing out of the book.  Now you can flip the book over, keeping the coils toward you and repeat this same crimping technique to complete the book.  Or you can keep the book stationary and flip the pliers over, move to the opposite end of the book and crimp the last coil that exits the book to complete the book.