Epoxy pins in place or not?

fitzo said:
Question: is it peining or peening? One's a surface treatment. The other's a fabrication technique. I'm confused.
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I have always heard of the technique of hitting t he outer surface of metal with something as "peening". "peening" being usually just using a hammer, or "shot-peening" to surface condition a piece of metal. I have not heard of"peining", and cant find any reference to it on line. So I guess I do not know.....
 
I am guilty of using both, but the proper spelling is peen. A peen is the round end of a hammer. Peening is hammering metal to shape or bend it. There is no word pein, it is just a variant spelling that has become so pervasive that it is accepted.
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
I am guilty of using both, but the proper spelling is peen. A peen is the round end of a hammer. Peening is hammering metal to shape or bend it. There is no word pein, it is just a variant spelling that has become so pervasive that it is accepted.
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Pervasive is correct. I don't know as I have ever seen the word written "peen" describing a hammer despite being able to google the term. Crosspein, ballpein, etc. Must be an old, old error to have entered the lexicon so thoroughly.
 
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I feel kind of guilty for posting this because I enjoyed the above discussion on "to peen or to pein or not to peen or to pein" 😁
 
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To pein or not to peen, that is the question.....Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune or to epoxy stuff on and not worry about it. To die to sleep to know no more.....

Alas poor York I knew him well.....
 
Horsewright said:
To pein or not to peen, that is the question.....Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune or to epoxy stuff on and not worry about it. To die to sleep to know no more.....

Alas poor York I knew him well.....
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Not only is our horsewright a magician … he is also a learned poet!
 
I like talking about my peen as much as the next guy, but in answer to the question 'to epoxy or not to epoxy', I say why the hell not? If you're already epoxying stuff you might as well go all guns blazing
 
Lorien said:
I like talking about my peen as much as the next guy, but in answer to the question 'to epoxy or not to epoxy', I say why the hell not? If you're already epoxying stuff you might as well go all guns blazing
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Because if you epoxy, then peen while the epoxy is uncured, that just seems like an invitation to get sticky, and then HARD epoxy all over stuff ..
Like the hammer, and table, and stuff on the table…
 
Cushing H. said:
Because if you epoxy, then peen while the epoxy is uncured, that just seems like an invitation to get sticky, and then HARD epoxy all over stuff ..
Like the hammer, and table, and stuff on the table…
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Gluing handles is always little messy job , whatever way you choose to do that .Over time, I learned how much epoxy I need for each knife so there is not much epoxy leakage on all sides..........
Yes , I do that that way to .I peen pins while the epoxy is uncured and I don t see any problem doing that ? Finish the job, wipe the handle and wait for the epoxy to harden...and after that finish the handle . Where you see problem to that i really can t understand ? What if epoxy get hard ? It is not harder then pin you just peened and you need to grind it flush with handle ??? It s thin pin for God sake , how much epoxy can push out that pin after you insert it in hole ?? And even if it squeezes one litre out you can clean it !
If you want to do domed pins on finished handles you can easy do that .Carefully apply epoxy in the hole with a toothpick, apply epoxy on the pin , insert pin inside , clean excess epoxy and start to peen that MF pin .....!
 
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