Making a new kilt pin

[GaRebel211]

I am going to make a kilt pin using a rattlesnake rattle, anyone ever made one? What type of pin should I use, and how should I attach the rattle glue or stitch/thread? Thanks in advance

[Chas]

Hi,

I am experimenting with making my own kilt pins. I am currently using 'rare earth magnets' and held on with 'super glue'

This is one of the latest; it is on the Royal Air Force tartan:



Regards

Chas

[Chas]

For clarity, I thought that I really shoud show the 'working' side of the pins.



With and without the keeper. A simple penny.

Regards

Chas

[toadinakilt]

I absolutely LOVE this idea. If you make it, you must post pictures. Do a work-in-progress thread, I'd love to see it.

[toadinakilt]

As to attaching the rattle, maybe a combination of glue and thin leather?

[tinksdad]

Hi,

I am experimenting with making my own kilt pins. I am currently using 'rare earth magnets' and held on with 'super glue'

Chas

If I may ask without hi-jacking the thread, what did you use to attach the magnets? Epoxy? Or something like EB600?

Edit....OOOPS! As I hit the submit button, I saw you used 'super glue'. My bad.

[Chas]

If I may ask without hi-jacking the thread, what did you use to attach the magnets? Epoxy? Or something like EB600?

Edit....OOOPS! As I hit the submit button, I saw you used 'super glue'. My bad.

Hi tinksdad,

A bit more info. There is a reason I use super glue. Originally I only used one magnet, but the kiltpin just wouldn't sit right on the apron. Either it rotated or it flapped as I walked. So two magnets it had to be. My first attempt was with 'UHU' contact adhesive. I was interrupted after the first magnet and couldn't finish for about a week. So the first magnet was hard dry. I glued the second in place - hands off - watched in horror as the two magnets repelled one another and the second magnet was pushed off the geode and stuck to the desk. Panic. Remove magnet from desk, clean magnet, clean geode, start again. This time with super glue, hold for the required 10 seconds and then release. Everything OK.

If I was using a pin type of fixing then a contact adhesive would be OK, but the magnets require an immediate hold.

Regards

Chas

[Whidbey78]

Years ago I saw one on a hat pin/tie tack type of thing in a souvenier shop. It was just glued on a cheap pin back on the first rattle so it could "rattle" around. Looked like plain old epoxy. I'm not sure if it would have much real world durability being allowed to move around though. Fine on a hat, but on a kilt apron? I don't know about you, but my kilt pins take a little beating now and then occasionally bumping a table, or someone brushing by.

Mounting it to a larger surface, maybe a bit bigger than the rattle, made of rawhide or a beadwork pin (or anything that fits the motif or your tastes) might help a bit. That is assuming that you don't mind if it doesn't move around.

[Chas]

Hello All,

Any chance of a picture of a rattle, so we can gauge size and shape? We get adders in Norfolk and Suffolk (which are poisonous), but nothing of the size of a rattlesnake.

Regards

Chas

[lethearen]

According to the Univ. of Texas at Arlington's herpetology department, the largest recorded Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was 92.5 inches, followed closely by a 92 inch specimen, both from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I wonder how big those rattles would have been?