Old Skool Trail Goods : Setting Eyelets for Shoelaces

Setting Eyelets for Shoelaces

These are two-piece brass eyelets, 3/16" to match the holes punched in the shoe. Also required: a sturdy base for the anvil, a wooden or rubber mallet.

Select a post (longer piece) and a cap

Insert post through the outside

Place the cap, bump out, over the post on the inside

Hold everything together and set the outside of the post into the the anvil

Hold the setter straight up-and-down on the inside of the post

Not shown: hit the setter with a mallet to crimp the post over the cap. Et Voila!