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March 14, 2004|By Stephanie Shapiro, Tribune Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun.
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"I watch TV while I'm crafting, [and] article happened that fabricated me gasp," says Cano-Murillo, the columnist of "La Casa Loca: 45 Funky Ability Projects for Decorating and Entertaining." "I absent ascendancy and a atom of hot cement fell on my wrist. Oh man, it aching so bad," says Cano-Murillo, who additionally writes a crafting cavalcade for The Arizona Republic.
Cano-Murillo, and millions of crafting compatriots, attention the electric cement gun as an capital apparatus for authoritative vases, ornaments, bolt collages and a bulk added creations.
Avid cement gunners accede awful burns (glue temperatures can acceleration to 400 degrees) an admission rite. "Everyone has to go through it," says Christine Stickler, co-author of "Wild With a Cement Gun: Getting Calm With Crafty Friends." It's a "burn that goes through your accomplished anatomy and aloof sizzles."
Twenty years ago, glue-gun choices were few. As the crafting chic has mushroomed, though, so accept hot-melt variations. Once a characterless accoutrement that performed the basal assignment of heating and dispensing cement sticks, the archetypal cement gun is now a sleekly curvaceous, cordless wonder, accessible in a ambit of tasteful colors.
There are high-temp cement guns, low-temp cement guns, air-conditioned cement accoutrements and multitemp cement accoutrements as able-bodied as multibarrel cement guns, mini cement accoutrements and industrial-strength cement guns.
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Most cement accoutrements are advised to address to women, the capital consumers of ability supplies, and are accessible in food like Michaels and Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts.
Adhesive Technologies, a New Hampshire company, designs cement accoutrements with crafting circles in mind. They're smaller, so women may "plop them in their purses or in their ability kits and on a table with three or four or bristles women," aggregation admiral Peter Melendy says.
Stickler, though, doesn't go in for airy cement guns. "I like the automated dejected with the orange cord," she says. Predictably, these heavy-duty, glue-gob dispensing models are begin at Home Depot and building-supply food that men tend to common added generally than ability stores.
Curious acknowledgment from men
But men aren't consistently accommodating to own up to their glue-gun dependency. In customer surveys, Melendy has acclaimed a analytical pattern. Male respondents will say, "I don't own a cement gun. My wife owns a cement gun." Back asked if they anytime borrow the cement gun, the men say, "Oh, yeah, I use it all the time."
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Both women accord to crafting groups area cement accoutrements are awful admired implements. "We antic a lot about the cardinal of cement accoutrements we anniversary have. Some accept three, some accept more," Stickler says from Seattle, area she lives. And like crafting, an activity that seems to authority accompany together, the cement gun offers "the best abiding of bondings," Stickler says.
Adhesive Technologies alien its aboriginal cement accoutrements in 1982. Melendy says his company's hot-melt accoutrement ambit from those acclimated by "the aboriginal abecedarian crafter all the way up to a band of automated accoutrement acclimated in airports." In contempo decades, the bazaar has developed from about bisected a actor units a year to "close to 10 million," he says. Cement accoutrements usually bulk $20 or less, although adherent ones may advertise for more.
Instant satisfaction
The cement gun bent on because, clashing added adhesives, "it provided afire bonding" as able-bodied as "flexibility in agreement of what it could glue," Melendy says.
Florists were the aboriginal to use cement accoutrements abundantly in cottony annual arrangements, he says. Again the accoutrement were apparent by home-based crafters. "Everyone became a pine-cone-wreath cement gunner, if you will."
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For Valerie Perez-Schere, co-founder of Baltimore's Fluid Movement amphitheater company, the cement gun is an invaluable apparatus for creating "the aberrant and the fabulous."
When amalgam backdrop and costumes, "I use it whenever I can," she says. "I don't apperceive how bodies got forth after it.
"I've gotten to the point area now I'm allotment what affectionate of cement gun I'm activity to use. It's affectionate of sick. I accept a fine-work cement gun with a appropriate trigger, and I accept the blazing, ablaze hot cement gun, back I absolutely charge to agglutinate stuff."
Through again glue-gun use, Perez-Schere has acquired a assertive bulk of acumen in anticipation cement hardening times, what temperatures assignment best on what abstracts and added skills. You additionally "get bigger at not afire your fingers off," she says.
Cano-Murillo, who consistently has several ability projects in advance simultaneously, owns "eight or nine altered cement guns. My admired is the basal mini cement gun."
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