--- product_id: 50369541 title: "American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink" brand: "american crafts" price: "1563.25 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 category: "American Crafts" url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/50369541-american-crafts-we-r-memory-keepers-cinch-book-binding-tool store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Binds up to 1.25" thick Holds 20 sheets per punch Punches 12 square holes American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink **Brand:** american crafts **Price:** 1563.25 DT **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“š Bind Boldly, Create Confidently β€” The Cinch That Means Business! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink by american crafts - **How much does it cost?** 1563.25 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/50369541-american-crafts-we-r-memory-keepers-cinch-book-binding-tool) ## Best For - american crafts enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted american crafts brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Craft-Grade Durability:** Robust polypropylene build punches through thick cards, plastics, and boards with ease. - β€’ **Compact & Stylish Design:** Sleek pink finish with foldable handle fits perfectly on any modern workspace. - β€’ **Versatile Thickness Range:** Bind documents from a slim 3/8" up to a hefty 1.25" (over 300 pages) β€” rare for budget binders. - β€’ **Dual Metric & Imperial Guides:** Seamlessly bind A4, A5, and US letter sizes with precision thanks to dual rulers. - β€’ **Effortless Professional Binding:** Create flawless wire-bound books in minutes with intuitive manual operation. ## Overview The American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool is a compact, manual wire binder designed for creative professionals and hobbyists alike. It punches 12 square holes and binds documents from 3/8" to 1.25" thick, accommodating up to 300+ pages. Featuring dual metric and imperial rulers, it supports a wide range of paper sizes including A4 and A5. Its foldable handle and lightweight polypropylene construction make it an ideal space-saving tool for stylish, professional-quality bookbinding at an unbeatable price point. ## Description Product Description American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Heidi Swapp Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink Box Contains 1 x Heidi Swapp Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch Review: Absolute bargain priced binder with some neat features - This machine is absolutely brilliant and literally a cinch to use (pun indended). I just bought one yesterday and already have done some perfect bindings after struggling to figure out other more expensive wire binding machines. I think for a wire binding machine this is an absolutely bargain at under Β£80, when you consider machines with similar capabilities can easily cost you Β£300-Β£400. The key benefits of this machine for those considering it are: 1. Ease of use. It's a lot easier than bigger office machines, within 15-20 minutes and a bit of practice you'll be doing perfect bindings every time. It also punches a decent amount of sheets (20 at a time) so that saves you a lot of time on large document bindings. 2. Flexibility. This machine has a very good cutter blade. It can cut threw board, plastics and a wide range of thick cards. Being smaller than typical large machines, it's ideal for making mini pocket sized books etc. 3. Compact. Ideal size and weight, the handle folds nearly in place, it doesn't take up much desk space, easy to lift and is easily stored away when not in use. 4. Binding size. It supports an usually wide range of 2:1 wire binding sizes. Going down to 3/8th of an inch all the way up to 1 and a 1/4 inch size (approx 3cm!). Yes, this little machine is capable of making books nearly 3cm thick with over over 300 pages! This is very rare to see on wire bind machines (unless you pay a fortune), most are limited to 120-140 pages maximum. 5. Metric support. Although these American machines are clearly designed for the US market, the latest model shown here on eBay now has an easier A4 option and a metric rule added below the imperial one. It's not difficult for us European's to bind common metric sized documents such as A6, A5 and A4 on this machine. I have wrote a little tutorial as it does require a bit of technique to do metric punching perfectly (see below). For anyone in UK or Europe watching this, wondering how the heck you do A5 and A4 punching on this machine (which is really designed for the American market that uses imperial measurements, although the latest model shown here in the video (which I have also) has both metric and imperial rulers)..here's how I figured it out (by trial and error): A5 (landscape format / short edge): Make sure the paper is aligned to FIRST LINE on the first (upper) rule guide, which is 1/17th of an inch. So in other words, you're moving the paper to the right by 1/17th of an inch which will give you perfectly centered holes on the short edge of A5 paper. You need to pull out button/plug 12 as that hole is not needed. I haven't tried doing A5 portrait mode yet, but if you look at the A4 method below, it should be exactly the same except you're obviously only punching once on A5 paper which is exactly half the width of A4. A4 (portrait format / long edge): Pull the ruler slide outwards 2 clicks to the left. On the newer models that have the metric ruler to the bottom, you'll see that 17cm at the top should line up perfectly with 32cm on the bottom from 2 clicks. Pull out plug 11 (marked A4 on newer models) as that hole is not needed. The paper will only be punched half way across due to the width limit of the machine. Turn the paper around (non-punched side facing right obviously), and punch. You now have perfectly centered holes on A4 paper. Tip: Use the little button to the left hand side to secure your paper before punching. Practice makes perfect. Practice on scrap paper. Because the A5 method requires a bit of precision aligning to 1/17th of an inch line (although its not difficult with a few practice attempts), it's recommended to punch your front and back covers WITH some of your inner front and rear pages at same time, so it looks neat and the holes align perfectly with the front and back covers when it's wire bound. Hope that helps someone! UPDATE: this is an update after using the Cinch binder for a month or so. There's a few niggles with this machine: 1. As others have posted in feedback, it doesn't cut holes as neatly as more expensive machines. You need to makes sure there's no paper pieces in the holes on the machine each time you punch holes, which helps a little, but the holes are never perfectly cut on standard 80gsm paper. Thicker material tends to cut cleaner. 2. The machine is a big fragile. If you pull out the punch hole buttons a bit too hard you can easily pull the entire thing out (it happened on our machine) and the cutting element can fall out of place (inside the machine!). 3. Lining up the papers for punching is tricky and you can get a lot of wasted paper. Again, this is mainly due to bits of punched paper preventing a perfect alignment. We use a brush to sweep out the bits of paper left behind which helps, but you really need to take your time with alignment to avoid wasting paper. We tend to punch less than 20 sheets to avoid paper wastage. 4. The rear part of the machine which closes the wire loops is a bit strange and doesn't work as you would expect with the dial and wire element sizing. We find it's better to put it on the lowest setting to get a properly closed wire binding (and even then it often requires manually squeezing the wires closer with your fingers or a tool. Despite these draw-backs, for the price I still think it's a good budget machine and it does the job. However if you're wanting to do bindings more professionally and regularly, you might be better spending more money on a proper machine, the Cinch is more for crafts/hobbyist use than turning out commercial looking documents. Review: Amazing 😍 - The machine is beautiful! It’s new! You can buy it ! Thank you, I’m very happy with my machine πŸ˜πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» ## Features - Book binding tool, binds from 325" to 125" - Punch holes, thread sheets, cinch wire - Hole pitch 2:1 Uses double 0 wires or spiral binders ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00UY0WT1O | | Best Sellers Rank | 314,924 in Home & Kitchen ( See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen ) 200 in Scrapbooking Tools | | Brand | American Crafts | | Colour | Pink | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,415) | | Hole Count | 12 | | Included Components | Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 30.5L x 24.1W x 12.2H centimetres | | Item Type Name | Heidi Swapp Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch | | Item Weight | 3.6 Kilograms | | Manufacturer | American Crafts | | Material | Polypropylene | | Operation Mode | Manual | | Sheet Count | 20 | | UPC | 633356627890 | | Unit Count | 1.0 count | ## Product Details - **Brand:** American Crafts - **Colour:** Pink - **Item weight:** 3.6 Kilograms - **Material:** Polypropylene - **Product dimensions:** 30.5L x 24.1W x 12.2H centimetres ## Images ![American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61rYZ1dJTqL.jpg) ![American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61nkyHW3IWL.jpg) ![American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+9Ch4GVoL.jpg) ![American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ligDyyD5L.jpg) ![American Crafts We R Memory Keepers Cinch Book Binding Tool W/Square Holes-11.5-inch x 8-inch x 5-inch, Pink - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71kZBtDfVyL.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Will this take half inch wire?** A: Not used this size but according to the instructions it takes the following sizes of wire .325 inch(.826cm) Up to 1.25 inch(3.18cm) Hopes this helps **Q: Does it come with coils** A: Mine didn't. I got this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0019LULYO/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item **Q: What size are the holes that are created?** A: The square holes that the Heidi punch leaves are approximately 1/4” **Q: Hi, What is the difference with the one other color? Are both colors punch circles?** A: One is a circle punch and one is a square punch. I have the pink one which is square punch holes. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolute bargain priced binder with some neat features *by L***S on 22 August 2020* This machine is absolutely brilliant and literally a cinch to use (pun indended). I just bought one yesterday and already have done some perfect bindings after struggling to figure out other more expensive wire binding machines. I think for a wire binding machine this is an absolutely bargain at under Β£80, when you consider machines with similar capabilities can easily cost you Β£300-Β£400. The key benefits of this machine for those considering it are: 1. Ease of use. It's a lot easier than bigger office machines, within 15-20 minutes and a bit of practice you'll be doing perfect bindings every time. It also punches a decent amount of sheets (20 at a time) so that saves you a lot of time on large document bindings. 2. Flexibility. This machine has a very good cutter blade. It can cut threw board, plastics and a wide range of thick cards. Being smaller than typical large machines, it's ideal for making mini pocket sized books etc. 3. Compact. Ideal size and weight, the handle folds nearly in place, it doesn't take up much desk space, easy to lift and is easily stored away when not in use. 4. Binding size. It supports an usually wide range of 2:1 wire binding sizes. Going down to 3/8th of an inch all the way up to 1 and a 1/4 inch size (approx 3cm!). Yes, this little machine is capable of making books nearly 3cm thick with over over 300 pages! This is very rare to see on wire bind machines (unless you pay a fortune), most are limited to 120-140 pages maximum. 5. Metric support. Although these American machines are clearly designed for the US market, the latest model shown here on eBay now has an easier A4 option and a metric rule added below the imperial one. It's not difficult for us European's to bind common metric sized documents such as A6, A5 and A4 on this machine. I have wrote a little tutorial as it does require a bit of technique to do metric punching perfectly (see below). For anyone in UK or Europe watching this, wondering how the heck you do A5 and A4 punching on this machine (which is really designed for the American market that uses imperial measurements, although the latest model shown here in the video (which I have also) has both metric and imperial rulers)..here's how I figured it out (by trial and error): A5 (landscape format / short edge): Make sure the paper is aligned to FIRST LINE on the first (upper) rule guide, which is 1/17th of an inch. So in other words, you're moving the paper to the right by 1/17th of an inch which will give you perfectly centered holes on the short edge of A5 paper. You need to pull out button/plug 12 as that hole is not needed. I haven't tried doing A5 portrait mode yet, but if you look at the A4 method below, it should be exactly the same except you're obviously only punching once on A5 paper which is exactly half the width of A4. A4 (portrait format / long edge): Pull the ruler slide outwards 2 clicks to the left. On the newer models that have the metric ruler to the bottom, you'll see that 17cm at the top should line up perfectly with 32cm on the bottom from 2 clicks. Pull out plug 11 (marked A4 on newer models) as that hole is not needed. The paper will only be punched half way across due to the width limit of the machine. Turn the paper around (non-punched side facing right obviously), and punch. You now have perfectly centered holes on A4 paper. Tip: Use the little button to the left hand side to secure your paper before punching. Practice makes perfect. Practice on scrap paper. Because the A5 method requires a bit of precision aligning to 1/17th of an inch line (although its not difficult with a few practice attempts), it's recommended to punch your front and back covers WITH some of your inner front and rear pages at same time, so it looks neat and the holes align perfectly with the front and back covers when it's wire bound. Hope that helps someone! UPDATE: this is an update after using the Cinch binder for a month or so. There's a few niggles with this machine: 1. As others have posted in feedback, it doesn't cut holes as neatly as more expensive machines. You need to makes sure there's no paper pieces in the holes on the machine each time you punch holes, which helps a little, but the holes are never perfectly cut on standard 80gsm paper. Thicker material tends to cut cleaner. 2. The machine is a big fragile. If you pull out the punch hole buttons a bit too hard you can easily pull the entire thing out (it happened on our machine) and the cutting element can fall out of place (inside the machine!). 3. Lining up the papers for punching is tricky and you can get a lot of wasted paper. Again, this is mainly due to bits of punched paper preventing a perfect alignment. We use a brush to sweep out the bits of paper left behind which helps, but you really need to take your time with alignment to avoid wasting paper. We tend to punch less than 20 sheets to avoid paper wastage. 4. The rear part of the machine which closes the wire loops is a bit strange and doesn't work as you would expect with the dial and wire element sizing. We find it's better to put it on the lowest setting to get a properly closed wire binding (and even then it often requires manually squeezing the wires closer with your fingers or a tool. Despite these draw-backs, for the price I still think it's a good budget machine and it does the job. However if you're wanting to do bindings more professionally and regularly, you might be better spending more money on a proper machine, the Cinch is more for crafts/hobbyist use than turning out commercial looking documents. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing 😍 *by A***N on 14 October 2023* The machine is beautiful! It’s new! You can buy it ! Thank you, I’m very happy with my machine πŸ˜πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Value for money *by S***R on 12 March 2020* Excellent purchase very happy with product ## Frequently Bought Together - We R Memory Keepers, Cinch Book Binding Machine 2, Pink/White, Easy to Use Design with Slide Ruler, Compatible with Wire or Spiral Coils, Make Professional Books, Notebooks, Calendars and More - Cinch Book Binding Wire - We R Memory Keepers Cinch Needle Nose Wire Cutters, Precision Metal Wire Cutting & Bending Tool with No-Slip Grip, Wire Cutters for Book Binding, Blue --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/50369541-american-crafts-we-r-memory-keepers-cinch-book-binding-tool](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/50369541-american-crafts-we-r-memory-keepers-cinch-book-binding-tool) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*