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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3998670" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>My dad was a machinist mate in the Navy during WWII on a floating dry dock at Sing Taue China. He built knives from old files that were worn out, using brass brazing rod as pins. He would countersink the wood, put the brazing rod in the hole and use a ball peen hammer to mushroom out the head in small strokes to form it. Then sand it smooth.</p><p>He showed that technique to me when I was a kid when I had some old cheap knife that had a broken wood handle to fix. Never knew what the round end of a ball peen hammer was for prior to that.</p><p>Now, I glue the handles to the blanks before forming them from stone. I do like the decorative pins, not to use, but I'd like to countersink the stone and just glue them in place to make it look nice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3998670, member: 5412"] My dad was a machinist mate in the Navy during WWII on a floating dry dock at Sing Taue China. He built knives from old files that were worn out, using brass brazing rod as pins. He would countersink the wood, put the brazing rod in the hole and use a ball peen hammer to mushroom out the head in small strokes to form it. Then sand it smooth. He showed that technique to me when I was a kid when I had some old cheap knife that had a broken wood handle to fix. Never knew what the round end of a ball peen hammer was for prior to that. Now, I glue the handles to the blanks before forming them from stone. I do like the decorative pins, not to use, but I'd like to countersink the stone and just glue them in place to make it look nice. [/QUOTE]
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