This was one of our very first leather projects, and, a consignment piece for "Ms Mic". In this set of items, we also made a pair of locking ankle cuffs and a pair of locking wrist cuffs.

The main thing we learned from this project is the relationship between the thickness of the leather and the length of the rivet shaft. If the shaft is too long, it will bend to the side when the cap is pounded onto it. In this case, that caused the caps to not line up as straight as we wanted in producing the lettering. The shortest rivets available were too long for one thickness of leather. We resolved this problem by adding another strap of leather, making the collar twice as thick.

Adding the second strap created another problem in that when wrapped around the neck, the holes punched for the letters line up slightly different than when the two straps are laid flat.

We are looking into a new "setter" for "spots" to do lettering.