Okay
.I'm going to talk about an amateur's mistake I made on the 2 dot Buck 110. I left it sitting for about a month before I decided to fix what I screwed up.
I had everything fitting nicely last month when I re-handled this one.
I epoxied it all together and thought I had all the excess epoxy cleaned up.
When I put it on the workbench for the night so the epoxy could set up I had the knife sitting on it's back.
There was some epoxy that leaked out into the blade well and seeped behind the spring.
I could not get the blade to work no matter what I tried.
Well, I decided it was time to fix it right the other day.
I ended up breaking away the stag covers and taking the knife apart.
I found a good sized glob of dried epoxy behind the spring and in between the lock bar.
I cleaned everything up nicely and put the knife back together
except the stag covers.
I am new at all this kind of stuff and learning as I go.
I had a big fear of pins.
I had no idea how to do them, so I found a couple videos and watched them.
It was time for me to learn how to pin a folding knife handle.
I marked the holes off, drilled them on my drill press, lined up each stag cover one at a time and drilled those out until I was sure I had a nice fit with the pin stock.
I knew I would have to hammer the pin harder than I wanted to get them to hold inside the frame, so I took a Dremmel and made a small concave end on one side of each of the four pins so they would flare easier when hammered.
I mixed up the epoxy, clamped both scales in place and inserted the pins through some of the epoxy that oozed out.
I set a thick paint scraper in my vise that fit between the liners to give me something solid to flare the pins on, then I hammered the pins so the part inside the liners flared.
I pulled them tight against the liners, turned the knife the right way this time so no epoxy would run down to the spring and let it set up.
Everything looked fine the next day except I had 3/8" of pins sticking out of the covers in four places.
I took one and snipped it off, then filed it down to where I thought it would finish off right after peening.
I had the pin just a little long, so I filed a little more off.
It turned out way better than I ever hoped for after peening!
I did the other three and they were easier since I knew the right length to leave sticking out of the covers.
I consider this the best Buck re-handle I've done yet...even though there are a few small things I will do better next time.
The blade has the snap a Buck 110 should have now.
I finished everything and buffed the knife this morning and here it is;
Thanks for looking!
. Hay in your photo's of this knife it looks like the bottom rear pin is brass????? Is it????
