This is really nice, I even like the other one you previously posted. Like this one better 'cause it has a key and it's blue :) About how long did it take you to make this one? And if you were to make some to sell, how much do you think you'll charge? I'd love to get a couple sometime. I love hand-crafted stuff ^_^ I'd take 'em anyday compared to the mass market stuff sold in the stores.

Depends on the size, and other materials used, as to how much it would be sold for.

This one took me about 4 hours to fully finish.

oh this is super nice! i love it! =3

Wow thats super cool! :3

its Beautiful I love the blue and the key design

This is super awesome :D

Are you by any chance playing ingress as resistance? ;D

It's very cool, but....are the rivets cockeyed on purpose? I always take a punch and using a ruler draw a light line on the leather, measure out the rivet holes before I punch them to ensure it's all perfectly aligned. Very cool regardless!

The holes for them are correctly aligned, but I can't for the life of me get the nickel rivets to set without tilting on their posts. The posts are short enough that they really shouldn't bend, but they bend every time. idkwtf. I didn't have this problem with the brass rivets. Same thickness of leather, same size posts. -shrug- Any ideas?

Absolutely. I had to do this with some of my leather riveted stuff. You take a pair of sharp wire cutters, and snip off a small bit of the post on the rivet, then you take a pair of jewelers pliers(or something similarly small) and "round" the pg as best you can. It doesn't have to be perfect, just shaped enough to fit in the cap.

Good rule of thumb with rivets like this is to cut it so it just barely pokes through the leather. When to tap it in place, it will compress the leather or whatever else you are doing and set just perfect. If you check out my leg band, you can see all my rivets are perfectly aligned...and i had to do this for each and every fucking one of them. It takes a lot of extra effort and time, but the look is very worth it. Especially on things you wear like cuffs and jackets.

Oh...and another tip, I -always- use double cap rivets. They wear nicer against skin, don't collect dirt and gunk in the holes, and they just plain look better. Plus they make a nicer connection against the leather, rather than a sharp round "blade" on the one side.

Aye. When cutting the ends, make sure your cutters are very sharp. It will allow you, when you re-round/reshape the cut rivet to properly make it's sealing head into the cap. You can use anything from a pencil to a 410 steel punch to make the hollow part of the rivet round again. Long as the object you use has a coned, or pointy head, it can reshape the metal of your modified rivet.

Looks really beautiful. I absoluty love the metallic blue!

That's totally awesome!!!!


I actually want something like that now

If the rivets are offsetting themselves when you set them, you probably need to either work with a little thicker leather, or find rivets with shorter shanks.

The leather is the same thickness as the other cuff, and the brass ones of the same length do not offset themselves. Its only the nickel ones that seem to do this. I'm not sure what to think. The posts are short enough that they shouldn't be bending like that.

I would still suggest trying to find some shorter-shanked rivets, then. It may be that the nickel rivets are harder than the brass ones, and resist flattening. Try going at them a little more gently, with softer, careful taps.

Can I has one? :3

I'd buy some! Are you selling any like these!?! hehe!

I have only done two leather cuffs, this blows my mind. Amazing as always