12-30-2008, 11:56 PM
I've got the kadee version, although I think I picked them up at a show at a discount tool booth. REALLY worth it. I was watching a clinic on assembling shake-the-box kits and the guy says, "You don't need one of those fancy-shmancy trip bending pliers" then proceeds to bend the pin with his needlenose pliers. If he hadn't been bleeding I would have laughed out loud. 
The ring pliers (Shaygetz's have a nice spring feature and grippy handles...something mine does not... :mrgreen: ) are also useful for other sorts of metal wire & strip stock bending. The trick is to go slow and easy. I have found it is easier to bend it well the first time than to overbend and have to go back and unbend it (even though that isn't all that hard, as the picture shows).
Galen
The ring pliers (Shaygetz's have a nice spring feature and grippy handles...something mine does not... :mrgreen: ) are also useful for other sorts of metal wire & strip stock bending. The trick is to go slow and easy. I have found it is easier to bend it well the first time than to overbend and have to go back and unbend it (even though that isn't all that hard, as the picture shows).
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!