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Saw Handle Rivets with Countersunk Heads
A hand saw blade is fixed in its wooden handle by rivets through both. Hodgson (1883) preferred plain beech handles with the rivets flush or countersunk: lighter, easier to handle, and no heads standing out to dull other saws in the chest. Head short steel rivets with a cone-shaped head in a nail header.
The picture: our diagram, a countersunk rivet and two set through handle and blade.
Intermediate
An hour or two
Instructions
1
1
Countersink the header
Countersink the header
Use a nail header with a hole the size of the rivet shank, its top edge filed out into a cone (90°, our angle).
Tools needed:
Nail Header
Metal File2
2
Nick the rod
Nick the rod
Heat a mild steel rod of the shank size, and nick it nearly through on the hardy at the shank length plus the head allowance (step 5).
Materials for this step:
Mild Steel Rod0.5 m
Charcoal1 as requiredTools needed:
Blacksmith Forge
Anvil
Hot Cut Hardy
Blacksmith Tongs
Welding Gloves
Safety Glasses3
3
Head it
Head it
Drop the hot end into the header and hammer the standing stock down into the cone until it fills it. Snap it off at the nick and file any metal spread past the cone off flat.
Tools needed:
Nail HeaderAnvil
Cross Peen HammerBlacksmith TongsWelding GlovesSafety Glasses4
4
Clean up
Clean up
Let them cool without hardening; the tail is peened into a countersink on the far side of the handle. File off burrs so each shank slips into its hole.
Tools needed:
Metal File5
5
Rod for a countersunk head
Rod for a countersunk head
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