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Setting Knife Handle Pins


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Setting Knife Handle Pins. On the 2 piece handles you can do it several ways. I epoxy first with temporary pins and once it is clamped and set for a few minutes, i remove the pins and wait for the handle to cure.

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Drilling the holes into scales to match the holes in the tang of a knife where multiple pins should fit without stressing out or breaking the scales is the most difficult part of scaling a knife. On the one piece, sawn cut type handle a 3/32 pin is about right and 3 in a straight line. Now, with the handle resting on a flat metal surface, with the wood under it, and the pin inside of the drilled hole, take the peen of the hammer and start tapping straight down onto the pin.

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10* Brass Knife Handle Rivets Pins Knife Fasteting Screws Lock Bolts

Pins can be 3/32 or 1/8. On the one piece, sawn cut type handle a 3/32 pin is about right and 3 in a straight line. Master smith daniel warren demonstrates handle pin peening techniques on a woodhead bowie knife. On the 2 piece handles you can do it several ways.

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