Brass Pins

childzplay

childzplay

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I made a knife and got down to the brass pins. I was able to peen the rear pin just fine, but ran into trouble on the front pin. When trying to remove the front pin, I expanded the hole on the scale slightly. So now I have one perfect 3/32 brass pin in the rear and a slightly expanded hole closest to the bolster.

How do I elegantly mask my mistake? I'm very beginner as you may have guessed.

I thought about using a 1/8" mosaic pin, but does that look like the maker screwed up and tried to hide it?

Drilling out the rear pin and replacing both with 1/8" pins could be an option, but would be very difficult.

I would love to make small brass spade (like from the ace of spades) inlays to cover the hole on each side, but it seems difficult. I'm pretty handy with brass, but it would have to be very small.

Any advice would be very welcomed at this point. The handle is stabilized redwood burl.
 
Sometimes covering up a mistake is as easy as showing it off....go ahead and use the mosaic pin and just glue it in place.

I never peen the pins in my handles, just rough up the outside and glue them in place. The handle is held in place with the epoxy any how.

George
 
Thanks George! I'm giving up on peening. I was thinking when I was doing it, that I should just epoxy the pins in. I had to get fancy. It seems pins should be super easy, but there are some serious pitfalls to peening.
 
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