Copper Rivets Sourcing...

[Jim Cissell]

I was hoping someone could help me obtain a low quantity (x50) of copper rivets. My wife is making a 'scrap' denim quilt and she would like to fasten the major quilted portions with traditional jeans-style copper rivets.

We've looked on eBay without much luck, and the Internet hasn't yielded any good results either. Ideally, it would be nice to get some that would allow easy fastening with a supplied hand-tool. One potential problem we were concerned with is how to determine what size or length of shank to get, based of course, on the thickness of the quilted layers we're connecting.

Any sourcing tips or additional info would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

Jim

[tony_hige]

Tandy Leather sells copper rivets plus a handsetting rivet tool pretty cheap - the tool is like $10, the rivets are something like 75 for $10. The #12 size is perfect for jeans. The shortest they have is 1/2, so after you set the burr you have to clip off about 1/4" or 3/16" of excess rivet w/ wire cutters before pounding it down. They've got a website, but I don't think they advertise the rivets on the website, so you may have to call.