Adam Savage’s Weird Staplers Collection!
The humble office stapler gets a chance to flex its versatility as Adam rolls out his collection of novel staplers that he has stocked …
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February 12, 2026
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The humble office stapler gets a chance to flex its versatility as Adam rolls out his collection of novel staplers that he has stocked …
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Adam's guide to staplers and nail guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIf7fuOIB1Q
Bostitch Booklet Stapler: https://amzn.to/4c9lLH0
Swingline Heavy Duty Stapler: https://amzn.to/48VseCu
Swing-Arm Swivel Stapler: https://amzn.to/4acHGeF
Puppeteer Stacey Gordon's visit to the cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7Ql35LYSI
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I'm proud to say I stapled my finger way back in kindergarten.
I painted my stapler red
You need to look at the japanes stapalers that dont use staples but insted cut and fold the paper to hold it togethe.
welp this blows my mind
My beloved bought me (unprompted) a red Swingline to replace my old plain one lost in a move.
That woman really gets me.
ok so the blue one can do the hard valley/peak staple. Like a book binding.
I haven't seen saddle stitch staplers since my high school days (I'm a printer and bookbinder by trade). The saddle stitch machine that we used at one of my first jobs used a coil of wire that got cut and material stapled as it passed through the machine. The machine itself was from the 1960 I think. Don't remember who was the manufacturer, though, that job was donkeys ago.
I've witnessed when kids do manage to injure themselves with staplers. Though to be fair, this was 30 years ago in public school, so the stapler wasn't as good as one someone with a good budget would have now.
There's nothing more I would rather be doing at 0100 in the morning than watching one of my heroes talk about his stapler collection!
My absolute favorite stapler I’d the Markwell anvil stapler. Will staple through anything and can staple over a large item such as a zipper. And staples perfectly every time.
Recently purchased an Ellepi Klizia for use at my architecture office. I love the thicker narrow staples. Despite being smaller, they bind slightly more sheets than a basic desktop unit; but not enough to warrant the lever press. I also found once bound, the paper doesn't twist as much at the penetration with the staples' more square cut wire.
You could add a long range stapler, which does the same job as the Bostich stapler, but differently.
Fidgit stapler
The first method of attaching sheets of paper was to fold the corner then rip and fold again lol
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And I said I don't care if they lay me off either because I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time then I'm quitting I'm going to quit and I told Don too because they moved my desk four times already this year and I used to be over by the window and I could see the squirrels and they were married but then they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire…
One of the best staplers is the Swingline Optima 40 Compact. Staples like a dream.
THIS is reasonable. Nice. I love when something is cool, inventive, interesting, new, AND cheap!
It's funny, I'm a taxi driver and wanted to make some laminated tour brouchures for when cruise ship passengers arrive in my town and I had the problem of a standard stapler creasing the paper or damaging the laminated sheets. I bought the 'rotating' stapler to get around this problem – I didn't know the brouchure stapler you showed existed – Would've made a neater spine a lot easier. I love your videos and enthusiasm for different solutions to simple problems even down the nitty gritty of fastening paper. For the record the brouchures have been a hit among fellow drivers and ended up with an order so we could offer a uniformed selection of tours.
I've got a an art deco stapler from Swingline embossed with the name of the Chemical Savings Bank. I have always admired their design, ever since meeting a heavy AF one in band class in high school.
My two favorite staplers are 1) a stapler that uses a spool of wire instead of individual staplers 2) a "demitasse" stapler that is a tiny travel pocket stapler but it doesn't use mini #10 staples, it uses regular size staples 1/4" staples that are held in place with a magnet
We hosted some exchange students from Japan a while back, and one of the things they gifted us when it was time to say goodbye was a small staple-less stapler… yes, that's right, no need to buy staples ever again!
It simply punched a small hole in the pages, and then folded it back in such a way that created a secure bond between a few pages, without the need for a metallic staple.
It was small enough, that it's not useful for much more than securing a few pages at a time, and certainly couldn't do booklets, but it's kinda rad that it doesn't require boxes and boxes of staples to service it… 😀
I like a skin stapler. Not for skin but because it doesn't need to push against a back piece to form the wire so you can 'clamp' together material that is freestanding. I use it for clamping objects together when gluing them and then I remove them after it's dry. Also the staples are stainless steel and the gun comes with a little removal tool that bends the wire out backwards without snagging the material.
As someone who has done it, I can definitely confirm that kids will find a way to drive a staple into their finger.
Okay, not that specific Bostitch, but I swear to the company not named bendy-wires, that Bostitch is going to be my lifelong brand just because they make those. I think I WILL demand genuine™Bostitch®staples! :P.
I never thought I'd find a video like this, but, because of this, I want to see if one of your staplers is in my house on a desk, as a weird one. Heheh. Because my gosh…. this is going to be so interesting with how old the device is!
Ok but why do some staplers have the reversible guide plate to bend the staple legs out?
I used to visit a person dear to me in a mental hospital, and they had staple less staplers! They essentially cut and fold the sheet corners together I believe. Definitely check out the staple FREE staplers
Been my staple for 20 years
Oh yes a stapler and duck tape are the best tools 😊👍❤
Muji has a really neat staple-less stapler