Rivets or pins?

[amacks]

I am in the final planning stages of my first knife assemble(simple carbon blade from Texas knifemakers supply, one with micarta, one with blackwood). I was wondering if there was a reason to choose pins vs rivets.
Aaron

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[indian george]

I found it easyer put'g in pins than rivets when I first start'd.

 

[Chris S]

I feel that using pins are easyer for me. I mean they are idiot proof!! You drill a strait, square hole through the scales and tang, then slide in a pin secured with epoxy!! How much simpler can you get????

Good knife making!! Chris S

 

[Chris S]

I feel that using pins are easyer for me. I mean they are idiot proof!! You drill a strait, square hole through the scales and tang, then slide in a pin secured with epoxy!! How much simpler can you get????

Good knife making!! Chris S

 

[Kisu]

I agree with everyone on this one, besides epoxy does most of the work anyways.
Um Chris, How the Heck do ya drill a square hole?

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[Cougar Allen]

Rivets were necessary before epoxy. Now we all use epoxy, though, about all they do is make it easier to align the scales with the tang when you glue it up, and look pretty. Pins accomplish both purposes just as well with less hassle.

Personally I think a nicely grained wood often looks better without pins, but I think pins add durability. Epoxy holds like the devil for twenty or thirty years and then it'll suddenly let go on you -- if the epoxy is the only thing holding it together. Pins take almost all the strain off the epoxy. Blind pins do that just as well, though, if you don't want the ends showing. Whatever you do don't fill a blind hole with epoxy and then force a pin into it -- the tremendous hydraulic pressure is likely to split the wood. Put the glue on the pin, not in the hole.

-Cougar Allen :{)