Members Stewartjlh Posted December 6, 2017 Members Report Posted December 6, 2017 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. Quote
Members DJole Posted December 6, 2017 Members Report Posted December 6, 2017 Never seen that before. I look forward to finding out who has the scoop on this. Quote
bikermutt07 Posted December 6, 2017 Report Posted December 6, 2017 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. Quote
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