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Alain:
I started using 3/16 pins on bolsters because I didn't know any better and it seemed to work. I picked that size for asthetics more than anything. My bolster pins showed on my earlier knives. Then I learned that they probably shouldn't. No rule against them showing, just most try to make them not show. 2ea 3/32 pins should work fine. If your pins bend when you pein or smash them, step up to 1/8. One thing that is helpful is to not have several different size holes to drill for pins. It's a pain to switch drill bits and keep everything straight when you are doing several at once. |
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Mosaic pin material list
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Though I've been a member for a short while. I'm new to posting and I hope this is the correct way and place to do this? I have been in the knife game since 1966, but have just started using Mosaic pins? That being said, is there any list of what sizes of materials ( rods, squares, tubes, etc., etc.) that I could use to produce my own 3/16" Mosaic pins? I don't really want to spend $50.00 and 2 hours of my time at Ace Tru Value, trying every combination of miscellaneous material that might fill the inside of a 3/16" Stainless steel tube? Is there anyone here who has an actual list of material that will make a decent 3/16" Mosaic pin? I'm not looking for a comprehensive item list, just a plain, down and dirty 3/16" pin? Thank you very much for any help you can give. Kindest regards: Stoney 327 |
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I doubt you'll find any such list and if you do find one it will only be partly useful. The reason for that is that the patterns in mosaic pins are usually made up of tight fitting parts. You can't count on those pins and tubes being precisely their nominal size. So, if I tell you I bought a 3/16 square tube and put several 3/64 pins in it around a 1/8 pin you might go buy parts that were sized that way and find they won't fit because some one or even all of them are a thou larger than nominal. I know when I actually did build some of those pins fitting the pieces together required a fair amount of sanding to reduce the little brass rods or other parts so that everything would go together.
I did it, it was interesting but every place that sells knife supplies now carries a huge variety of mosaic pins made by people who dream up patterns I would never imagine. It is considerably cheaper and much less time consuming to just buy the pins. I'd rather spend my time making the knife than the pins especially when I know I'll probably have a better pin that way .... |
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Mosaic pin response
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Thank you Ray That sounds like very good advice. I'm a machinist by trade and am painfully aware of the discrepancies in the specs on stock material? These Industry acceptable tolerances, may be great for some metal butchers , but they're a killer when you're trying to be precise ! Stoney |
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