Buttoneer Button Fastening System - NEW and Improved! - Attaches Buttons & More in Seconds - No Sewing Necessary & Works on Most Fabrics

The Avery Buttoneer works very well for attaching more or less standard size shirt buttons to two layers of fabric. Larger button’s hole spacing makes inserting the needles a little difficult, and may prevent both “T” ends from unfolding, with the button failing to attach. Same for more than three layers of fabric. In any case, use the provided thimble to hold the back side of the fabric firmly against the buttoneer while squeezing the trigger. Be sure to order a packet of refills. We used it to attach buttons through three and four layers of fabric on a count down Christmas Tree.

Bought this thing years ago and the minute that I unpacked it to use it and I follow the instructions to the letter -it did nothing. I had a button pop off my pants, went to go to fix it, and got this thing out . Well, it sure as heck didn’t work . Wound up poking my fingers with those needles . You have to use a thimble.- which is odd because it’s advertised as super simple - on-the -go kind of thing but yea , you are out on the road on a trip and uh oh “ where did I put my thimble ?” It is touted as this real simple thing - just snap in and fix your pants right away or shirt or whatever but no this thing doesn’t work. I think the previous generation worked OK but this thing is GARRRRR BAGE … The thing doesn’t properly put the plastic fastener through the holes . I literally could’ve fixed my pants faster with a needle and thread rather than this piece of garbage. I COULD HAVE , in the amount of time wasted on this thing, dug up my sewing kit or went to the drug store and got a kit faster than the amount of time wasted on this thing. This thing is now bits of plastic that are broken from being smashed by being thrown violently against the garage floor by me.

This buttoneer is an amazing device. Rather than spend minutes at a time sewing on buttons, you just whip out your buttoneer and -POOF- magic. Button on and ready to go. Very easy to use. I'm considering using the buttoneer on some cross-stitching patterns that would help create a unique piece. Way easier than sewing by hand. Neat and tidy, no fuss, no muss. The buttoneer is a must-have for those in a hurry.

The tool works well but it doesn't work for all buttons. It only works for buttons where the holes line up with the pins on the end of the gun. Buy the box of buttons that is suggested with it. They work well and there is enough of them to replace most buttons. Remember, the problem with buttons is they always fall off.

I was happy to see that it still exists, but the buttons fall off. It’s for quick fixes.

Quick fastener when you don't have time to sew

I bought this to relocate buttons on my father’s shirts, in hopes that I wouldn’t have to resew them on by hand. He can no longer button his shirts, and I was trying to convert them to velcro closures which required me to remove all of the buttons from their “normal” places on his shirt and to reattach them to the “wrong” place. Since that area is where the button holes are, it has another layer of fabric. This device will NOT go through more than 1 layer of thin fabric (I was having so much trouble, I wanted to see if it would work at all and tried it on a non-reinforced area of his shirt. It did attach a button there.). I had planned to return it, but my return window passed before I had time to do so. The concept is a great one that I really wish would have worked for my project; however, it just didn’t work out for what I needed it to do. I also didn’t find it as easy to use as one would expect.

Years ago, I had the old model blue Buttoneer, and I used it constantly. My brother lived in a group home, where the overworked staff had no time to sew on buttons. Once a month, I'd go over there and ask the staff to bring me the clothing of all 5 residents. I'd bring over my mom's tin of assorted buttons, and my faithful Buttoneer, and I'd spend the day reaffixing buttons to all the residents' clothing. (Mostly my brother's -- he loved to pull buttons off his clothes.) I effortlessly reattached hundreds of buttons. I lost the old Buttoneer in an apartment fire, and decided to treat myself to a new one. Well, the new model is horribly clumsy to use. There's an extra step involving a sort of plastic thimble, which doesn't really work to hold the button against the garment. You really need 3 hands -- 2 to hold the thimble in place, and 1 to fire the Buttoneer, which requires a lot of pressure to engage the firing mechanism. I had 3 failed attempts to attach a button using the microscopically tiny print instructions, before I pulled up a YouTube video. The video wasn't much help, but after a few more wasted attachment attempts, I finally managed to put my button on my shirt. The only thing I like about this new contraption is the built-in compartment to hold the strips of plastic button attachments. Otherwise, if you can manage to find the old blue model Buttoneer, buy that instead of this new one. The company took a simple and reliable tool, and redesigned it so it was almost unusable.

Goid little tool for quick button fixes.

TLDR: No fasteners included; fasteners are weak; save your money, just use needle and thread. First off the buttoneer did not come with any fasteners, despite being mentioned in the packaging on the product photos, so be prepared to purchase those separately, or better yet, don't purchase this piece of garbage at all. The fasteners only seem to work with very thin buttons, as they were not able to reach through the holes in the buttons I tried the product with. The mechanism of the fasteners seems to be similar to the nylon tags you see on clothes to attach labels/tags, so are likely to break with minimal force, so definitely not suitable as a button fastener (how else do you think the button came off in the first place). Save your money, don't buy this garbage. get a simple needle and thread, it'll work a lot better than this piece of garbage.

Great

What a waste of money. The unit came with of 4 strips of fasteners . I think i must of have used 1/6 of them just to attach two buttons. That's was only to test the unit and must have spent an hour on that. I think it would have been faster to do them with a needle and thread. On top of that the unit is very cheaply made. It feels like it's going to break at any moment. It's not worth the price paid. It should be around 30-35 dollars at the most. It's only good with shirt buttons. Don't try to use it on a sweater with bigger buttons. A fact that's not mentioned anywhere on the page. Very disappointed with this purchase. I strongly don't recommend it. Beware of this product. You've been warned.

A bit awkward to use. Not as straight forward as you would think.