Troy- The knife came out great, keep it up man.
A waxed dummy pin is just a
temporary pin.
I wax the dummy pin, and slide it through the handle while the epoxy begins to cure. The wax won't allow the epoxy to stick to the pin... at least not as well as it will to clean parts!
Then you can pull the pin out before the epoxy fully cures (or drive it out carefully with a punch if you forget to take it out in time :foot:
).
Then you can shape the handle without any pin/pins obstructing the handle shaping and finishing process. With any type of metal pins, the pins will want to get hot at the grinder, even with sharp belts/discs. Also, metal pins will want to abrade slower than the wood around them. So if the pin just flat-out is NOT in the handle during shaping, then both of those worries go away completely.
Then when the handle is all shaped and finished, I put a slight tapered chamfer in the hole and then do the domed pin.
Of course that isn't something you HAVE to do. If it were, things like Corby and Loveless bolts wouldn't exist. But it certainly takes away some of the inherit headaches of shaping and finishing a handle with pins through it.
Hope that helps!
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