Just curious what everyone uses for making/crimping aglets, I’ve been using 5/16” flat lace with 5/32” x 0.014 wall aluminum tubing from ksmetals. I cut them to length myself and crimp them with some crimper from Amazon. I can post pictures of what I use but am curious as to how everyone tackles these. I make leather ankle gauntlets and the laces are around 70-80” but they do vary.
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I’ve been looking into this, too. So far the cleanest option has seemed to be buying solid eyelets and gluing them on. I believe the ones Angelus resells work this way:
I have used some crimp-ready split aglets with a bit of rubber sheet in some large pliers. But they were pretty ugly to begin with, and didn’t get much prettier. Worked fine, but more heavy-duty than refined.
Thanks for the reply, I will try to post some pics of the way I do mine, unfortunately I keep a lot of materials in stock already. At roughly 1$ a piece these from angelus are out of my price range.
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@raymondlrl7 do you have access to The Crispin Colloquy? Duncan McHarg posted photos of an aglet tool he made by modifying some combination pliers…ten years ago.
He made aglets by cutting lengths of tubing.
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In case you need a really ornate, antique way to do your aglets
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Nice share! The wiki just learned the Spanish word for “aglet”.
Can’t take credit for finding it. Dave from New River Boot posted it up in the Discord talking about it
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