One Of The Coolest Keyrings I've Ever Seen

[RavenAus]

Being in Australia means I would be charged 3 times the price of the keyring just for the postage, and for recycled bonded 'leather' at that :/ I'll make my own. Thanks for the pattern tboyce

[veedub3]

I made a few myself. For me 1.8 mm (sorry I'm from Belgium) worked the best.

Only one problem. I looked the origninal maker up on google and he also is guy from Belgium called Alain Berteau .

I decided not to make or promote any more of them. He lives maybe 50 km from my home and I feel bad just taking his design and make money out his work.

He is actually a great designer who won an award 2006 as DESIGNER OF THE YEAR. He has is own collection Objekten but he worked for companies like BULO.

Kudos to you Tomstas! I agree with that logic 200%.

Karina

[Pip]

Cheers Tom.

[Retrospads]

How do you put the metal ring inside the leather? I have never done this before.

[cgleathercraft]

Its a two piece grommet and the picture shows the finished side and not the side that was rolled down.

Here is what they look like:

http://www.tandyleather.com/en-usd/search/searchresults/1285-01.aspx

I whipped one of these up for my nightstand and used a rivet instead. Could also use a snap so it could lay flat in a travel bag.

[ericlarson]

3-4oz. leather worked okay for me. I had to play with it at first but it ended up working.

Thank you for the pattern!

[King's X]

Thanks Tom......appreciate you using your skills to provide some help to all of us.

[snubbyfan]

Me likey. That's just the thing for a point of purchase at fairs and festivals. Most everybody has a cell phone and keys. I've taken the year off from setting up a vendors table but I've got ideas for next year and that'll fit right in.

[KrisbeeKream]

All of the scraps I have on hand right now are from 7 oz or higher leather. Any ideas on how this pattern could be modified to accommodate a thicker leather? Regardless, I'm going to try it even though it will undoubtedly be too stiff. It's too cool not to!

[TheCyberwolfe]

Krisbee, for heavy leather you could probably make the two end cuts a little longer, plus a little creative skiving to induce a little more bend in the folded arc.

If the normal one is ___|-----------|___ then for heavy maybe ______|----------|______ y'know?