Recommendation? GEC Fit and finish? One of my Barlow pins is sticking way up.

Ding, Ding, Ding. G2 Gary W. Graley Gary W. Graley has the simplest/most common sense remedy for your problem.

Should you decide not to take G2's advice you could fly your Cub Scout Den's flag from your proud pen. Should you ever get a GEC knife with sunken pins you could use the sunken pin as a water dish for your pet roach.

Then again you could just sharpen it and use it and enjoy it. Don't worry!!!!! You'll soon develop a callus where your hand contacts the proud pin and won't fee the pin at all anymore.

The way the USPS mail is being handled now a days you may never see your knife again if you decide to send it to GEC.
 
Astr0boy Astr0boy : Welcome to the Porch my young friend and also to the GEC Knife Owners Family as well .
Just carry and use the knife for a while and then if it really bothers you , file and sand it down and get on with your life . If that is your biggest problem that you encounter in your life , you have it made . By the way : Congrats in being able to get a beautiful knife .

Harry
 
That's a spun pin, they're not flush by design. They're spun into a "head" and that head holds the knife handles tightly to the spring just like a round head screw does to a piece of wood. When you're spinning a pin you keep an eye on the parts and when you see them come together and the gaps disappear you stop immediately. Any more and you'll very likely crack the covers. If there are no gaps under the "head" of that pin it's as tight as it's going to get and is totally normal for a spun pin. It's absolutely not a warranty issue. Some folks are suggesting that you file the pin down or that it should be flush with the handle, and that's dead wrong for a pin like that.

Eric
 
Nice Eric, is there something he could do, my take was to lower the very top down so it's not protruding as far, not necessarily all the way down to the surface but just not as high to bring it as a point of focus when you examine the knife.
G2
 
Gary W. Graley said:
Nice Eric, is there something he could do, my take was to lower the very top down so it's not protruding as far, not necessarily all the way down to the surface but just not as high to bring it as a point of focus when you examine the knife.
G2
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Gary your suggestion is a spot on remedy, but like you said it has its dangers since you're working so close to the covers. There's a very good chance that if one isn't super careful the covers will get marred in the process. Filing the domed top off will produce sharp edges and file scratches that need to be rounded off and smoothed. If it's going to be a safe queen or re-sold at some point, I wouldn't touch it as it's not a defect. If it's going to be put in the pocket and well used, it might be worthwhile if it really bothers the owner (or sell it and buy a knife with flush sanded pins). My point was to emphasize that one can't attempt to file it flush as this would completely remove the head of the pin, or greatly weaken it if only a small amount of material was left.

Eric
 
Exactly it would take some careful approach to bring the top down, radius the edges to emulate a domed pin again without harming the scale, time consuming effort to be sure.

Small funny story regarding domed pins, I bought one of Burt Fosters really nice Damascus integral bolster fixed blade with ironwood scales and very nice domed pins. He was at the Ashokan seminar where I picked it up from him. On his way home from that weekend, he was riding with Jason Knight, I sent Burt a thankyou email and stated that 'really love the knife, thanks so much Burt, I guess you did not have time to get those pins sanded down flush to the wood, I've done that now and looks great, again, many thanks'

I let that settle in for a bit and sent this 'just kidding, ;) of course I did not sand down your nicely done domed pins'

He said he got a great laugh out of that and that I did 'get him' with that first email, said he was stunned but thought people could think that was something that needed done because they did not know what domed pins were.

G2

had to search for the images, what good is a story without some photos ;)

burt_foster by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

IMG_2330 by GaryWGraley, on Flickr
 
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Gary W. Graley said:
Exactly it would take some careful approach to bring the top down, radius the edges to emulate a domed pin again without harming the scale, time consuming effort to be sure.

Small funny story regarding domed pins, I bought one of Burt Fosters really nice Damascus integral bolster fixed blade with ironwood scales and very nice domed pins. He was at the Ashokan seminar where I picked it up from him. On his way home from that weekend, he was riding with Jason Knight, I sent Burt a thankyou email and stated that 'really love the knife, thanks so much Burt, I guess you did not have time to get those pins sanded down flush to the wood, I've done that now and looks great, again, many thanks'

I let that settle in for a bit and sent this 'just kidding, ;) of course I did not sand down your nicely done domed pins'

He said he got a great laugh out of that and that I did 'get him' with that first email, said he was stunned but thought people could think that was something that needed done because they did not know what domed pins were.

G2
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You got me too, Gary! :eek:
 
Gary W. Graley said:
Exactly it would take some careful approach to bring the top down, radius the edges to emulate a domed pin again without harming the scale, time consuming effort to be sure.

Small funny story regarding domed pins, I bought one of Burt Fosters really nice Damascus integral bolster fixed blade with ironwood scales and very nice domed pins. He was at the Ashokan seminar where I picked it up from him. On his way home from that weekend, he was riding with Jason Knight, I sent Burt a thankyou email and stated that 'really love the knife, thanks so much Burt, I guess you did not have time to get those pins sanded down flush to the wood, I've done that now and looks great, again, many thanks'

I let that settle in for a bit and sent this 'just kidding, ;) of course I did not sand down your nicely done domed pins'

He said he got a great laugh out of that and that I did 'get him' with that first email, said he was stunned but thought people could think that was something that needed done because they did not know what domed pins were.

G2

had to search for the images, what good is a story without some photos ;)

burt_foster by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

IMG_2330 by GaryWGraley, on Flickr
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So you're saying I should sand this down?

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Gary W. Graley said:
Some pins are like children and are just begging for attention, looks like this one is getting a great deal of it
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Myself if it protruded high enough to bother me during use, I would tape around it and take a small file and file it down a little and then sandpaper it down to smooth but not so close as to mar the scales
I’d be happy to help out if you don’t want to risk it yourself just let me know
G2
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OP, the generosity of this offer, and who it's from, cannot be overstated. Gary's one of our best.
 
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