Finding Metal Aglets.

[flidais]

Here's a link to an article about making various buttons.
http://www.employees.org/~cathy/buttons.html

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

About how long should the aglets be (looking at Ebay at bolero tips and there are different sizes) if you want to put 3-4 approx. 18" feathers in 1 of them?

I want to buy long enough tips so the ends of the feathers do not fall out.  Thanks.