Hidden pins??

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darrylburke

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Has anyone tried using hidden pins.??

By this I mean not drilling all the way though the handles so it shows on the outside...

I was playing around tonight, and it was a bit of a hassle to line up the bolsters properly.. but eventualy I got it..
 
yep, use a regular car jack and push them in, then sand it over and they dissapear MaaagGGiCCccCCccccCCccc
 
Most of my knives have hidden pins and they work great. I use threaded brass usually because the brass is easier to cut to length. Instead of threading the tang for the pins I have soldered pins in the tang and also used small nuts to fasten the pins securely to the tang. I always route an anchor pit at the bottom of the handle pin holes. I only use presentation grade wood, so I don't want pins messing up my wood. As I've said before, I use only Brownell's accuglas. You use this stuff with the regular correct preparation for your gluing work and there is no way those slabs are going to let loose. I've even used pins for combination stacked handles- pins running lengthwise from one material to another such as antler and wood. Maybe overkill, but I was pretty new at the game then, but I was making damn sure nothing was going loose or separating.
 
Regarding alignment. Here's how I do them for bolsters:

  1. Cut the material to roughly the size.
  2. Sand a 30 degree angle on one edge of each if making a dovetail
  3. superglue one in place
  4. Drill
  5. line up the back edges and superglue the other one on
  6. Knock of the first one
  7. Drill the other side
  8. Knock off the second one
  9. Using temporary short pins put the two together
  10. Sand, shape, finish the front edge of the bolsters.
  11. Now use one of those other methods to attach them for good.
  12. Finish shaping.
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    Works for me.

    Steve
 
This was the exact method I used.. came out perfect..


Originally posted by itrade
Regarding alignment. Here's how I do them for bolsters:

  1. Cut the material to roughly the size.
  2. Sand a 30 degree angle on one edge of each if making a dovetail
  3. superglue one in place
  4. Drill
  5. line up the back edges and superglue the other one on
  6. Knock of the first one
  7. Drill the other side
  8. Knock off the second one
  9. Using temporary short pins put the two together
  10. Sand, shape, finish the front edge of the bolsters.
  11. Now use one of those other methods to attach them for good.
  12. Finish shaping.
    [/list=1]

    Works for me.

    Steve
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Cool Darryl,

I can't take credit for that one. I'm sure I read it off somebody's WEB tutorial.

One time I had a lot of trouble with it. I think my mistake was running the drill up and down a few times thru the tang holes. Made everything loose and sloppy.

Steve
 
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