You folks may have beat this topic to death in the past, but I am at the point in a restoration project where I need to re-attach some old Slingerland badges to re-wrapped shells.
The eyelets I got from Precision Drum have a flared configuration on the formed end which I am afraid will not produce a clean exterior look using any kind of tool I have seen available to attach these.
It's kind of hard to explain - but the original badge eyelets had a "rolled shoulder" that produced a very clean bead.
The eyelets that I see available these days are a plain flared cylinder that requires the use of some kind of compression tool.
If the eyelet is flared (like the bell of a trumpet) there is no way that hitting this with a hammer or screwing it down with a nut and bolt is going to produce an original "rolled bead" appearance.
Do any of you guys have any ideas for me?
Thanks.