Steve Good's Keychain maker

[don in brooklin on]

I was doing key tags for my grandson's baseball team and got to thinking that this is the best pattern program out there.  I probably have done a couple hundred for teachers, teams and friends. The Canada one below is reduced to about 3/8 inch high.

Many of the more recent scrollers may not know of this program,  It is way down nearly at the bottom of the blog. https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/

There is an online maker that I think will work for Mac's https://stevedgood.com/stencil/

I get more thanks for this as a little gift.  Many people have never got anything with their names on anything.

 

[jerry walters]

People love to their names.  Remember when you saw your name on your office or cubicle.  Was kind of exciting.

Jerry

[rjweb]

Don, very nice, how about when you see your name in post office most wanted, lol, RJ

[Wichman]

26 minutes ago, rjweb said:

Don, very nice, how about when you see your name in post office most wanted, lol, RJ

The first time is kinda exciting, after that, not so much.

 

[Hawk]

First off, nice job on the key chains. Second, thanks for the info on Steve's site. Been there hundreds of times but so focused on the patterns I forget there's a ton of other info there. Thanks for opening my eyes!

Chris

[Denny Knappen]

I downloaded the program years ago and made a few.  I forgot all about it.  Thanks for the reminder.

[Jim McDonald]

21 hours ago, Denny Knappen said:

I downloaded the program years ago and made a few.  I forgot all about it.  Thanks for the reminder.

Same here. 

[OCtoolguy]

On 6/3/2025 at 3:58 PM, rjweb said:

Don, very nice, how about when you see your name in post office most wanted, lol, RJ

I remember seeing my name on my military fatigue shirts in boot camp. No great. Lol.

[Tom Gi]

I just tryed this out and when I hit save download if gave me a fatal error and other trash that made no sense did something happen to this cause it worked last week

[don in brooklin on]

I use the stand alone program and have no issues.

I just tried the online version and as you say the download crashes.  I have sent a screen shot to Steve and will see if he gets back to me.  I usually get a response with this kind of issue.  Will post if he gets bac to me.

 

[don in brooklin on]

If you have mychain.ttf on your computer you can make the keychains with 

A. Inkscape - Note select size about 100pts.  You have to kern all the letters (the AA width 0).  

B. Word: (id use Libreoffice) use font mychain size 100 pts

You can adjust font size if too big or small.  

PS:  If using Inkscape and you are a person who like red lines. it can be done by converting the name to a path and and then do union on the characters.  Now change fill and stroke as you desire.

PS: PM for info on mychain.ttf

 

Edited August 16, 2025 by don in brooklin on

[Tom Gi]

On 8/15/2025 at 8:44 PM, don in brooklin on said:

If you have mychain.ttf on your computer you can make the keychains with 

A. Inkscape - Note select size about 100pts.  You have to kern all the letters (the AA width 0).  

B. Word: (id use Libreoffice) use font mychain size 100 pts

You can adjust font size if too big or small.  

PS:  If using Inkscape and you are a person who like red lines. it can be done by converting the name to a path and and then do union on the characters.  Now change fill and stroke as you desire.

PS: PM for info on mychain.ttf

 

I’m using a Mac so I have to use the online program

hope Steve can get it back up