Building Kilt Pins

[brewerpaul]

Here is one of my newest fun kilt pins. After a visit to Spoelzt Brewery, home of Shiner Beer, I had to pick up the old style church key. Many of us men of experience (a nice word for older) remeber this style and the other style bottle and can openers that predate twist tops and pop top beer cans. I used three tack pins and super glue to secure them. Took some needle nose pliers to wrap the tack pin base around the opener. To hold to the kilt I used the locking pin backs. Using these I am able to cut the pins down to the pin back leaving nothing to catch my under apron. Of course I had to sample the brews while at Spoelzt Brewing, why else would I have gone there.


If you look closely at the top and lower sides of the opener you can see the tack back wrapped around the opener.



These backs are wonderful and quite secure. I no longer worry about the tack backs being pulled off the pin.

[Hopper250]

That is a great use for the church key. I am not old enough to have bought them, but I lots of guys who still carry them.

[Canary]

Here is one of my newest fun kilt pins. :snip:

If you look closely at the top and lower sides of the opener you can see the tack back wrapped around the opener.

I wonder if you only used the top tack the key would keep its functionality. Great place for a bottle opener.

[kiltedrennie]

I picked up some tie tack blanks and clasps from Joanne Fabrics and glued them to the back of my Michigan Renaissance Faire season pass with JB Weld. I used some fine sand paper to rough the surface up a bit first. Now I can pin it to my Balmoral bonnet.

[kiltedrennie]

BTW, the JB Weld epoxy worked great. No pin malfunctions the entire day. Even when one of the singers in the Sirens rubbed my bonnet around my head down into my face. It's quite interesting sitting in the front row

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

I am doing an experiment with E6000 glue I hear its the best or one of the best. I bought 2 pendants, and the things to make them into a pin plus some heavy duty little magnets. I used only the glue and magnets on the one pendant.... then the other pendant the pin back and the magnet. ( magnets so if I don't want to keep putting holes in kilts).I have to wait like 4/6 days to see if they both turned out ok. The glue said wait like 3 days but with the heavy duty magnets I put it on thick.. so I am hoping they come out good. Also they make these little rubber things that look like earring backs that you can put on your kilt pin so you wont lose it.. I use them on my pins .. Just in case you don't want to use a rubber band, which is STILL a very good idea...

[Steve Ashton]

I tried the rare earth magnets a few years ago and hated them. Yes, you do not put any holes in your kilt but I found them attaching themselves to every metal thing I walked past. I almost tore my kilt when the magnets attached themselves to a car fender in a parking lot.

Luckily the car was older 'çause the pin left a large ding in the paint.

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

Wow, didn't think about that, I think I may b keeping to the pins... I'm not the most graceful, and odd things seem to happen to me so I don't want to press my luck lol...Thank Steve :-) ..... I am hoping that the glue on the pin part of the one pendant work . The other one has magnet on it.

[Mike in Dayton]

I have used rare earth magnets without any issues. The trick is to use the right ones. Don't use the magnets from a disk drive. The ones I use are round 3/8" diameter. I have found you need two magnets otherwise the kilt pin will rotate. I have had issues with two magnets being attracted to each other. Turning one over will allow them to repel but then they end up flipping on top of each other. To solve that I now glue them to a strip of plastic. That keeps them in order. As far as being attracted to a nearby metal object I have to be already against it for the 3/8" magnet to lock on.

Mike

[artificer]

I am doing an experiment with E6000 glue I hear its the best or one of the best. I bought 2 pendants, and the things to make them into a pin plus some heavy duty little magnets. I used only the glue and magnets on the one pendant.... then the other pendant the pin back and the magnet. ( magnets so if I don't want to keep putting holes in kilts).I have to wait like 4/6 days to see if they both turned out ok. The glue said wait like 3 days but with the heavy duty magnets I put it on thick.. so I am hoping they come out good. Also they make these little rubber things that look like earring backs that you can put on your kilt pin so you wont lose it.. I use them on my pins .. Just in case you don't want to use a rubber band, which is STILL a very good idea...

I use rare earth magnets on several of my pins as well.

I tried the rare earth magnets a few years ago and hated them. Yes, you do not put any holes in your kilt but I found them attaching themselves to every metal thing I walked past. I almost tore my kilt when the magnets attached themselves to a car fender in a parking lot.

Luckily the car was older 'çause the pin left a large ding in the paint.

I have used rare earth magnets without any issues. The trick is to use the right ones. Don't use the magnets from a disk drive. The ones I use are round 3/8" diameter. I have found you need two magnets otherwise the kilt pin will rotate. I have had issues with two magnets being attracted to each other. Turning one over will allow them to repel but then they end up flipping on top of each other. To solve that I now glue them to a strip of plastic. That keeps them in order. As far as being attracted to a nearby metal object I have to be already against it for the 3/8" magnet to lock on.

Mike

Plus1

I use the 1/4" ones, and a steel strip to mount the magnets to, but other than that I agree 100%. 4 of those magnets will prevent anything but the worst yank from pulling the pin free (which, if it were actually physically pinned through your apron, would probably cause a rip).

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