I received my crimping pliers in the mail this morning and I am pleased!
Hopefully this will be another instrument that helps to improve my beading :)

I've only just recently learned about these fabulous pliers and if you've not discovered them already, here's a couple pics that my googlefu picked up.

Diagram of the pliers:
http://www.bartky.net/CRIMPER/pliers.gif
How it works:
http://www.beadingdaily.com/media/acmimages/crimping.jpg

That's all for now - off to play with my new toy!