I was playing around yesterday and it just hit me the perfect rivet stuff. if you ever goto like walmart back in the arts and crafts section they have paints for clothing. I was rumaging through the microwave cart drawer and saw a tube of my wifes "Tulip"(brand name) fabric paint. TULIP paints are formulated for strong adhesion and durability on Card, wood, glass, fabric, ceramics, etc. So I got playing around with it and this stuff is cool. it doesnt shrink and sticks to anything and has its own itty bitty tip you can make perfectly matched blobs. I say blobs as so far it is so thick you get pointy headed rivets. I will be experimenting with this to see if it can be thinned at all. If this stuff thins down to where you get nice domed heads this will be miracle stuff as i have seen how it does on clothing. You have prob seen iot before you know the designer type shirts the women wear that have that 3d design stuff on them. so far i have found it dries nice and you can pop rivets (so to speak) very fast and that with the water based paints at least they paint nicely. My next test will be to coat them with laquer polyurethane to see whether that affects them or not. as soon as I do some more experiments will let you know and post some pics. I know it films over and gets really stiff in abt 5 mins but the bottle says let dry 24 hrs and 72 hrs before washing fabrics with it on. As firm as this gets in 5 mins you can keep riveting and not have to stop for fear of ruining some still wet rivets.

Joe