500 Sets Grommet Kit 3/16 Inch Grommet Setting Tool Metal Eyelets Set with 4 Pieces Install Tool Kit in Storage Box for Clothes Shoes Bag Paper Leather Crafts DIY Projects (10 Colors)

Basic set.. I had trouble hitting hard enough with the hammer to actually bend the grommets into place in fabric. Didn't look good at all.. basically useless to me.

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Let's start with the good, the eyelets and washers are decent. Metal is thin but pretty strong. It took a number of blows with an 8 oz. ball peen hammer to get the barrel to roll down and hold the washer tight over a lightweight nylon webbing (my test subject) roughly 0.08" thick. The paint will get scratched but that's expected since it's in direct contact with the base. The case was in good condition, no cracks and the lid was taped down to help avoid accidentally opening. The included instructions were adequate for me. This gets 4 stars.Now, the "not so good".The mallet is decent and comes with extra heads. The face of the head has a slight dome/convex shape which makes it a bit hard to get a good solid contact with the punch tools. Also, it's pretty lightweight. It took a high number of blows to roll the barrel. Switching over to an 8 oz. ball peen hammer reduced the number of blows need. The mallet did come smelling like kerosene. Not too bad and not a big deal. Just wipe it down with some cleaner. Minus 1 star, running total = 3 stars.The hole punch tool was dull out of the box. It had to be sharpened before I could punch through my test material. The steel isn't hardened and will not keep an edge. Minus 1 star, running total = 2 stars.The punch for rolling the barrel over washer needed reshaping. The inner lip which is supposed to go inside the barrel is too wide. It will flatten the barrel instead of rolling it. I use a combination of spade and round diamond grinding bits to reshape it, after which it worked fine. Minus 1 star, running total = 1 starThe base also needed reshaping. The groove at the bottom of post is not concave and will cause the eyelet to take on an angular shape. There is a lip right at the bottom of the post, followed by an angle down to the bottom of the groove, which is flat, finally back up another angle. I took an appropriately sized round diamond grinding bit to get rid of the lip and give the groove a concave shape. It worked better after that. I might buff out the groove to smooth it out more, possibly lessen the chances of scratching the paint off. Minus 1 star, running total = 0 stars.Since I'm a generous person, plus 1 star, and it's Wednesday, plus 1 more star. Grand total = 2 stars.

I end up using my Crop-a-dile to set these as I don't have the strength it takes to set them with the tool it came with. The videos just show them being "tapped" together and it doesn't work for me that way. I do like the choices of the colors. The box it comes in keeps them pretty well in their respective places, with very few escapees. The cost was the best for the variety of colors and the tool but I'd just buy the eyelets on their own next time when I need them in colors.

If you aren’t a grommet newbie and have additional tool options at hand, this isn’t a totally horrible set. Just a basically horrible set. I purchased it because I’d only ever used silver or brass grommets and so thought it would be nice to own some bright colors. (Though so far I’ve only ended up using the silver, go figure). But if you are a grommet virgin, this is NOT the set to purchase. As others have already stated, the punch is very dull. After we pounded it through canvas about 4-5 times, we realized this tool was not completely unsafe to hand off to a toddler, it's really that un-fierce. It makes more sense to use an actually sharp tool to pierce your material, like an X-acto knife. Most people, including myself, simply don’t want to mess with trying to sharpen a bottom of the barrel metal punch, a real piece of you-know-what. As for the the mallet? Um, a total joke for most grommet work; one can find plenty of hobby uses for a mallet of this weight/one with a plastic face. But for grommets? Not so much. We use an 8 oz ball peen hammer though any decent lightweight machinist hammer should do. Even just your general purpose one from the garage = better than what comes in this kit. They’re dazzling you with quantity here, not quality. This is the jazz hands of grommet kits.The flat piece of the grommet, the washer AKA the ‘female’ side, is VERY VERY *VERY* thin. Like if you exhale while one is on the table, it could go flying right off the surface. Just featherweight. For my project, a canvas bag strap, we used 24 of these. I feel like we deserve some sort of combat medal for this feat. Most all of them don’t have a truly ‘clean’ center. There’s just something kinda off about all of them. They’re also too soft so they too easily lose their perfect circle shape. Go with a higher quality brand if possible. In my pics these 3/16” grommets are alternated with 3/8” size from a known brand, Dritz. Better to pay a bit more for a higher quality product. I’m pretty sure this set will frustrate anyone who is new to the ‘art’ of grommeting… as beyond the pretty colors, there is a lot to frustrate one here. A whole lot. But hey, you get blue and orange and yellow and…