Autism Awareness Kilt Pin

[rmckay]

Some of you may know and some may not know, but in the US April is Autism Awareness month. 2 of my 3 boys fall onto the Autism spectrum and I have been looking for awhile to find something large enough and heavy enough to use as a kilt pin with one of the awareness symbols on it. Sadly I have really had no luck in this department, the only brooch I can seem to find is made out of ceramic and I just don't think that is going to work for a kilt pin. The only other options I seem to find are lapel pins and they are to small.

So my question for my fellow kiltwearers is do you have any ideas on how I might go about making one for myself or can you suggest someone who makes custom kilt pins that I might be able to talk to about having one made.

Thanks in advance all.

[Taygrd]

Perhaps use the lapel pin and solder it to the military style pin?

[Doc Canary]

Am sure there has to be some lapel or hat pin for the occasion. I would suggest wearing one of them as a kilt pin.
Being non traditional, I tend to wear pins that catch my fancy as kilt pins. gives me a huge selection to choose from.

[MacFhearchair]

Here's a medium-weird idea I'm just going to throw out there.

Do you have any sculpting skills of your own? There's this great polymer-based (I think) silver clay that, when baked, leaves behind only the silver in the shape you sculpted it. It's solid enough to make jewelry from; as in people sculpt rings and stuff like that out of it.

That plus some strong adhesive and a good size pin-back, you could make it yourself exactly the way you want it.

I have intermediate sculpting skills myself. I've been considering making myself a kilt pin in a similar way for a while.

[Cygnus]

The brooch in this brooch and earring set seems like it would be big enough - and your significant other gets earrings out of the deal, too!

[madmacs]

Most jewellers can do custom casting in gold and silver, my experience is that they generally have someone they outsource carving the wax to...

Of course gold and silver are a lot more than they used to be, but if you have scrap you could probably offset the cost some...

[rmckay]

Thanks for the replies all. I'll look into the clay as well as the brooch and earring set they look nice.

[piperdbh]

Send a PM to Tyger. He makes all sorts of cool pins and stuff.

[Calico]

Maybe one of each of these from: http://autismlinkstore.com/pins.aspx

[slohairt]

There are also pewter versions of the puzzle piece. Some are pinned and some are magnetic. They're only about an inch square, so they might be better attached to a bigger pin.

My daughter was diagnosed with Autism two years ago and now my son is showing signs of it as well...