The Button Bar…
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
Time to assemble the parts…
I first drilled some holes for the small screws…
Then created the countersinks on the back…
Here’s how the countersinks look with the screw…
Which leaves this much of the screw to secure the buttons…
The button next to the exposed screw…
After wet sanding the front of the aluminum bar with fine grit sandpaper, I added a piece of tape to act as a guide and placed my template below to help align the buttons…
The buttons were then super glued into place…
Once the super glued was dry, I drilled small holes and added the screws. They also got a bit of super glue to keep them from backing out…
I also added some super glued to the treads of the screws from the front…
The red button lenses were re-installed…
Then the small nail head was super glued into place…
Here’s the completed button bar attached to the flap of the bag…