Rivets

How to make rivets keeps coming up on different forums so I figured that I would show some techniques that are not usually shown.  This is not an all encompassing list.  Just some techniques that usually are not listed.

The Ponce wheel can be used to emboss lines of rivets onto a surface.

The easiest method is embossing the rivets using a scribe.  Just push a scribe into the reverse side of the material to put the rivet onto. 

Glued in place.

 

Next is a leather punch tool.  This one can press multiple sizes of rivets.  Again embossed on the back of the material.   

Glued in place again.

   

Gold shaping cups

 

Glued in place

 

This is what they look like when you purchace them.  

 

The next two are commercially available punches. 

Circle

 

Hex

 

Again glued in place

 

A leather hole punch

 

Green stuff world molded bolts

 

What the product looks like. 

 

Glued in place. 

 

Primed and given a quick wash

 

A quick tip on gluing small parts. This works with both superglue and poly cement.  Use self threading sewing needles.  Use a pin vise to handle the pin and dip the tip of the self threading needle into the liquid glue.  The shape of the eyelet will hold a drop of glue in place by surface tension.  This drop can be applied to an exact point where you will apply the rivets.   

 

Hope you like.