03/25/2026
We’ve been assembling our own keychains from carefully selected parts for years now. It started because we weren’t very happy with the quality and feel of what we were buying. Not quite hefty, but we wanted something more substantial. So we started sourcing chain in bulk: both plated iron and stainless steel (thick, cuban link style, stainless steel chain is very hard to cut by hand 😓 but we manage 😌).
Choosing our own parts allowed us to upsize our split rings from the standard 25mm to 28-30mm, and pick jump rings that were bigger and thick enough to properly fit our 4mm maple charms. Details that, in our eyes, mattered. It’s definitely more work. But being able to customize every component to the standard we actually want is always worth it. The only thing we would have liked to be different is finding these parts
