Texas Kilt Pin

[Zardoz]

While waiting for my Texas Bluebonnet kilt to arrive from USA Kilts, I got the notion that I would like a "Texas" themed kilt pin for it. After looking through what I had around the house, mostly small lapel pins and tie-tacks, and looking around the interwebs a bit, it became pretty clear that if I wanted something Texas themed and like what is generally regarded as a 'traditional kilt pin', I'd have to get a little bit creative!

I had a little 3/4 inch State Seal lapel pin I'd picked up for 3 or 4 bucks at the Capital gift shop last year that I'd never taken out of it's little bag, and I ordered up an inexpensive ($5.50) plain kilt pin from Stillwater Kilts...


Putting them together was pretty straight-forward, I snipped the lapel pin's pin-back off with some side cutters and filed the area smooth, Then I marked and filed a flat area on the 'blade' of the kilt pin. The pin is plated brass and easy to work, I had the Dremel tool on hand but didn't need it. After getting the kilt pin how I wanted it, I roughed up the areas of both pieces to be joined a bit with a coarser file, and glued them up with a dab of JB-Weld, a durable "metal epoxy" .

Let the JB-Weld cure overnight, and a little polish (hey, I used the Dremel after all!) and I had a shiny new Texas Kilt Pin!



Sorry I didn't get "step by step" photos, but the work went so easy I didn't think to stop. The whole project took about 15-20 minutes alltogether. I'm looking forward to sporting it on my Bluebonnet Kilt!