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At a popular Anaheim/Orlando theme park they sell custom engraved leather bracelets - and for an additional price you can have a  pewter decorative character rivet added.  They also sell the rivets separately and I grabbed a few to add to personalized gifts for my nieces.   But I'm stuck on how to set them.  They are solid posts like a copper rivet, but instead of the washer/burr they have this little eyelet.   Anybody out there run into these before and can help?  Is there a special tool for flattening - it is on the inside of a bracelet, so anything sticking out would be uncomfortabel?  My suspicion is that it sets like a copper rivet, but I'd like to make sure before I go out to Tandy and buy the copper rivet setting tool.  I'm also wondering if the standard cap rivet setter might work?  Thanks ~ Stewart

ps - the photo, from L to R,  is the eyelet front/back, a decorative rivet, and a decorative rivet with an eyelet placed how I suspect it should go.  On the bottom is a 5/16" brass tubular rivet and a line 20 snap post just as a size comparison. 

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Never seen that before. I look forward to finding out who has the scoop on this. 

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I'm just going to guess.....

Install the eyelet like normal, then peen the post into the walls like a rivet. 

Before setting the rivet, place something under the face of Mickey. Like a scrap piece of leather or some hard rubber, treating it like a jeweled rivet.

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