Staplers and nailers are used for attaching thin or thick materials to other materials. While brad nailers are designed for lightweight trimmings and molding or arts/crafting, crown staplers are used frequently for upholstery, roofing, insulation, or construction that requires heavy work i.e. attaching fabric or plastic to wood.
- What Is A Crown Stapler?
A staple gun that is used for stapling into the wood, plastic, corrugated cardboard, and so on. This stapler is called a crown stapler due to its structure. A stapler has two legs connected by a bridge material called a crown hence the name it gets.
- Crown Stapler Vs. Brad Nailer?
A stapler may look like a brad nailer yet differ in many ways. Though both tools similarly operate on similar materials, crown staplers drive staples into materials whereas nailer penetrates nails into the materials. Generally, both tools use compressed air to shoot the nail or staple it into the materials. Cord or battery versions are available for both tools.
Though the applications overlap a lot, there are some basic differences:
– By feature, a basic difference between these tools is a stapler is a two-prong object while a nailer is a single-prong object.
– Level of force and integrity required for this job is important to determine whether a stapler or nailer would be used for the job. If the materials fastening requires extreme force, a brad nailer is not a good fit, not even any crown staplers. It needs heavy-duty staplers to do the job right. Brad nailers are likely as effective for light-duty work.
– How much holding power is required for the job is also significant. Staples have a better grip than brad in this case so crown staplers work better than brad nailers.
- What is a crown stapler used for?
Crown stapler is used for woodworking, building furniture, and cabinetry or widely used for construction. However, this tool is mostly seen being used for upholstery work on wood or creating bent lamination. Bent lamination is usually when you laminate thin strips of wood together and bend or curve them for use on chairs.
A crown stapler is also used to secure the picture frames that hold images and protective glass in place. If you staple your picture frame, it will secure the miter joints from behind to hold the frame. Drawers or cabinets also can be repaired easily with crown staplers.
Several types of crown staplers are available in the market offering number of applications at home and outside. For example, if you buy a narrow crown stapler, you can use it for cabinet or drawer repairing, fixing sheet goods, wood or plastic or installing thin trim and moldings.
- Can A Brad Stapler Use Crown Staplers?
Both brad stapler and crown staplers often are used for overlapping reasons. Usually a brad nailer is not designed to shoot staples but if you can manage to get a brad nailer stapler combo gun, you can load staples as well. On another note, you can also get some tools in the market known as combination crown nailer/staplers with two types of magazine, one chamber with staples and another with nails. However, experts do not recommend using such tools since they may become risky for new users to use and also tend to leave bigger marks on the materials. They are also a bit risky to handle if you are a beginners with tools.
- Can A Crown Stapler Use Nails?
Crown stapler uses mostly staples, whereas nails are loaded in nailer. Nonetheless, if you want to use a crown stapler for loading nails, you can turn the staple gun upside down and remove the loading arm. After, install the bard nail clip into the empty chamber. If the clip fits well, you may be able to use the gun for shooting nails.
- What’s The Difference Between A Crown Stapler And A Regular Stapler?
By regular stapler, we understand the standard stapler most commonly used at offices, schools and other places. They are called desktop or hand staplers sometimes. This stapler is light -weight and portable use for stapling papers. Whereas, the function and features of crown staplers are far from regular staplers. Besides the basic differences i.e. holding materials with staples unlike document stapling, crown staplers are staple guns used at construction and repair wood and plastic that comes with sturdy grip and holding stands. Obviously, these two type staplers cannot overlap their applications nor they can supplement each other for similar tasks.
- Why Is It Called A Crown Stapler?
The crown refers to the top part of the staple which penetrate the materials with staples to be joined together. The top part stays between the two longer legs. On another note, the term ‘crown’ refers to the staple itself as all of them have crowns. More or less, this crown connects the portion between the two legs of the staples.
- What Is Crown Size On Staples?
Crown staplers come in variety of sizes classified as wide, medium and narrow based on its feature and application. Yet, thickness of the staple which is called gauge mostly draws the line between different size and shape of the staplers. You will find plenty of options designed to different length and width. This list below may help you find the right fit for your application:
- Narrow crown stapler: Narrow staple gun usually shoots 20-22 gauge wire diameter staples that have a crown width of ¼ inch. This is the thinner and smaller version of medium and wide stapler used for securing plywood and sheet goods on the wood.
- Medium crown stapler: Bigger than narrow and smaller than wide, medium crown stapler has a wire gauge of 16G to 19G and size of crown is ½ inch in wide and staple length is 2″ inch usually.
- Wide crown stapler: Wide crown staplers are used for construction and machineries repairing hence come in far bigger size than other two varieties of crown staplers. This crown width and staple length often is customized in line with the materials and tools the stapler will secure. Such heavy duty staples stay between 15 to 16G. However, what application you will be using it for matters the most as the wide the staples are the better the stapler is for heavy duty. Therefore, gauge changes as per requirement.
To sum up, you might know that old saying, “wheels are as far as the similarities go for cars and bicycles”, like as, if you see the tools at a first glance, you may not be able to differentiate as they look similar but in expert eyes, these tools come with different type of usage and level of efficiencies also varies. A crown stapler helps secure two materials with stapling while brad nailer put nail into the material to keep small piece of materials attached to the bigger ones. They definitely are not same. This article hopefully has helped you understand the basic differences but you better read online and learn more about the applications of such tools. This will help you recognize the right tools for your job.