Hand made COG Tags

Ever wanted your own COG tags? I hadn't ever thought about it. But then i decided to make some. I was inspired by a coglike thing i found in my garadge xP Inspiration comes from weird places no?
I wills how you a simple way to make some pretty sick COG tags!

Step 1 Getting started!

now, because i was literally making this up as i went along, I'll give you tips, and methods, I tried, three different ways and only one worked (for me that is!) . But the good news is, once i got that one way to work i made a 2nd (okay so tehcnically a 3rd) in, about 10 minuets!

lets get started!

Things you'll need for this are:
1. Two flat washers (the size doesn't matter, it depends on how big you want them!)
2. A ruler
3. A peice of paper (mostly for note taking, and some pattern drawings etc.)
4.(this is optional, i'll explane why later xP) A Compass
5. One of those, weird beaded metal chain things xP Idonno what they're called. (see picture)
Things you'll aslo need, in the realm of tools are:
1. A bench grinder (or an angle grinder)
2. A dremmel with attatchments, especially ones for Engraving (which will be considered an optional step, but i thought it was fun) Grinding, and polishing.
Thats basically It for the tools, i tried hack saws and what not but that seriously messed up my first attempt at doing it! So gather your materials and we'll go from there!

Comments

[pompfoot22]

this is really cool and im about to go do it lol....but u may wanna consider washing under ur fingernails.... lol

[tubbychick3n]

I'd like to second that.

[Thundertydus]

I'd like to third that

[lunius]

I'll bumrush this bandwagon and make that 4 people..

[bendog38]

Make that 5

[curious youth]

well ill board this ship that makes 6 of us

[cstadtfeld]

i will make that 7

[tubbychick3n]

No offense, of course.

[superjoman16]

It looks like something very dificult

[jlund]

It's prety easy to do but then again I'm really inventive and have a lot crap in my room iv made over the years and read on instrucibles a lot. I know I have bad spelling

[Cooldeal]

Sign of a hard worker. I'm sure if RavenShadow519 goes out or eats the hands will get washed. Geeez. Like you never had dirty working nails before. You don't have to be a model to instruct a tutorial.

I'm going to make two sets of those and polish off the sharp edges. Then give them to my neighbors as gifts 'cause they're into those.

Then I'm going to scrub my nails and fingers for an hour. Makes me laugh. Too cute.

[msk123]

What did you use for your chain? I can't really think of anything to use for one, but
I want one that looks like that (metal beads).

Thanks in Advance!

[bendog38]

You might want to try metal shears. I find that although they can be a pain, they can get the job done right and fast.

[lilwitteck]

im gonna have to make this now, great instructable!! :D

[munson]

love the instructable. i made some of my own, i used a hacksaw and a few different types of files (my dad didnt want me to use a grinding wheel). mine are lighter looking than yours so i might darken them up using fire and lots of it. after that i will use letter punches to put my name on it and possibly my gamer tag. i made sure to make a third one to test stuff on.

[needs_more_to_do]

 Your profane use of " xP " took what little faith i hadin humanity and burned it to the ground durning the course of this instructable.

But all in all it looks neat.

[Archive555]

Yeah, it was a bit overused. Don't you agree xP?

[needs_more_to_do]

 i would like to apologize for my angry comment. i think i was in a bad mood that day.
anyway here is an empty space as my gift of apology                                   @@@



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[Earths_hope]

This is mine!
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[Goodhart]

For quite awhile, I was wondering how he was using an OS to do this ( XP )  *sigh*

 

[Chromatica]

Me too.
Great lives think alike huh.

[LiMiT-L3sS]

These are cool for me and others i know its so freaken cool man

[ninjasoldier]

im glad the ruler was made in the USA. at least i can trust it

[Brewboy]

The side are a little uneven but it is still cool

[cornflaker]

 I think the uneven sides make it look better

[SwimGoblin]

 It looks a little more gritty; I like that.

[fredboivin]

Awesome Instructable! But, wouldn't had be easier to use a grinded small bicycle gear?

[denanderen]

that's what i thought it was the first time i saw it ^^

[jg123123]

I see your logic.

[cog_tagger]

for engraving yo could just use print punches. make it a lot easier

[Goodhart]

That might work (if you have a nice FIRM flat surface, like an anvil to use as base;  I would try it on an unfinished washer first to make sure you aren't going to warp the final product with the pounding it must take :-)

 

[nicolo86]

what the hell happened to your finge and by the way very cool

[vortex1077]

I havnt made this yet (im still going through my spare parts bin for nice washers) But with the info you gave me i do belive these will turn out great. Thanks man!

[Griffo619]

those finger nails r makin me sick!!!!!! but the tut is really good

[stoker221]

hey for mine i didn't ingrave needed a dremel tool 8( but any way they are carmine's cog taggz

[Cullentj]

Nice instructable, ill be making my cog tags pretty soon!

[Virizion]

The Dremel didn't exactly work too well, within like 10 minutes the disk totally broke when I made mine. i used a 4 inch disk grinder, and it worked great. nice work by the way.

[Udon]

You know where's a good place to get dog tags stamped? Pet shop. I got mine done for free. Probably 'cos the gothic chick who works there doesn't get many visitors. But even so, you probably could get it done at a pet shop for almost free.

[Sgt Fenix]

what'd you use to color it? what'd you use for the chain?

[catzpurr]

I love this *_* However, I don't have an angle grinder or anything that heavy duty, do you think that if the washer was thin enough I could just use a dremel?