drilling out rivets on Buck 889 ?

[audiopile]

I'd like to swap blades on a Buck 889 -got the blade -question is basically-can I just clamp my 889 onto my bench press and drill the rivets out ? Does that leave hollow spacer tubes behind or are the rivets part of the spacer pillars ? If they are hollow-I can just substitute bolts for the rivets ? And swap in my new blade.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

I don't know what a Buck 889 is, without pictures, but most conventional folding knife pivots are solid rod.
They have to be driven out.

 

[Old Biker]

Why Drill any rivets at all? The pictures I find when I search for Buck 889 show a screwed together pivot. Take the pivot screw apart, remove blade, put in new blade, put pivot screw back together. I can see no reason to take the rest of the knife apart. Maybe I'm missing something.

O.B.

 

[audiopile]

Got well ahead of myself on this-looked at my spare blade in the parts heap and realized it's exactly the same as the one installed in the knife now =so this would have been a truly worthless exercise. BUT -discovered a tube of Chris Reeves knife grease shoved in the drawer - had forgotten just how amazing this stuff was at freeing up overstiff brass bushing pivots -just ordered three more tubes.

 

[Wilfred17]

made scales for mine, they are hollow tubes. if you ever attempt drilling them out , I would try and grind a flat spot or a divot in the center of the rivet with a Dremel or something, it was tough to drill them as they have kind of a domed shape. agree with Old Biker above.

 

[audiopile]

That answers my question -but a project that is definitely on the back burner unless I stumble across a "better' blade for this series. bTW- does anyone know of a source for black pocket clips for this series of Buck knives?