While you can easily make this tool using a recycled fabric roll and a pneumatic blowy tool, it's a small price to pay for a better quality tool that is going to make filling your pillows with down and poly batting so much easier. it will even help re-fluff down and batting for re-use when you feed it back into your pillows or cushions using this tool. Plus it looks cool and is very satisfying to use, even though it leaves down feathers behind to haunt you forever.