Blind Pins, Alternative Materials

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Ken Cox

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I woke up this morning thinking about blind pins.
Strange, since I've never heard of them.
By blind pins, I mean drilling a hole for the pin into the slab from the steel side so that it does not break through the surface.
If you put your pins through the steel and then set the slabs on top of them with epoxy in the holes, would this work?
Have I reinvented the wheel?
It would surprise me if I haven't.

Also, what types of materials might work better for this than traditional metal pins?

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Luke 22:36, John 18:6-11, Freedom

 
Hello Ken!
Sorry, but i have to disappoint you. You should take a look at http://www.knives.com/engnath6.html
and you willl see that there's rarely something new under the sun. Bob didn't only describe normal blind pins, but so-called "epoxy nails", which means pins just from the epoxy, too.

Merry Christmas to you and everybody!

Achim
 
Thanks, Achim.
I visited this site about a week ago.
I don't remember seeing this specific page, and yet, some of the text looks familiar.
The subconscious works in amazing ways.

I have also wondered about 1/4" wood dowels as blind pins for wood slabs.


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Luke 22:36, John 18:6-11, Freedom

 
I generally use brass for my hidden pins because that is what I have on hand in quantity.

The pin in most cases is simply to act as a shear pin to help the epoxy out so whether or not it shows on the surface doesn't matter. The surface must be prepared for epoxy as usual and the pin checked for length ahead of time to avoid messing around in wet epoxy with the clock ticking.


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george
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seems to me they'd be useless, sorry to say. fisrt off becuase they're probably much more frustrating to pu in then regular pins. but if you want to use them, and they may have i use that i have not thought of, try epoxing the pins into the holes first, with out the handle materials on. make sure they stay centered. you may want to buy some 5min epoxy just to hold them in. now clean up pins so the handle materials fit good. check the fit again before you go to epoxy it. now epoxy your handle materials on, and make sure to use plenty of epoxy.
 
I use "blind pins" always on hidden tang knives and sometimes on full tangs. I use brass rods and then press them so they are a very tight fit. This way I don't have to worry about any movement when I have wet epoxy. I just assumed that this was the only way to do this. Just gos to show that there as many ways of doing things as there are people doing them.
 
i think the main purpose is for the "look" that they effect with certain types of handles.....like ivory...with no visible pins looks awesome! ive started using only 1/16" pins on my ivory handles....really like the effect....or is that affect? who knows...who cares....merry christmas everyone.

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