I'm not a pop rivet fan, but like when you are FORCED (no out option)to eat Vegemite... there's no alternative.
Pottz ..... thats why i bought the cordless pruner you turned me onto. it's gonna be a blessing when i have to prune 30 rose bushes next month. i just have never had a need much for pop rivets.
In all fairness... OK, nothing to do with fairness but off on a tangent, I've now got both the DeWalt and Ryobi secateurs... Not trying to spruik the benefits of Ryobi, but I find the closing cycle of the Ryobi is a tad better than of the DeWalt. If I didn't have both, I would definitely endorse the DW, however, having both, that micro closing second will save you about 3 seconds with your 30 roses.... accumulate that for a few hundred years and it'd just about save a lifetime... my math's teacher always thought I was like Pythagoras... "dead and burried" with the wrong "hypo-use".
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD