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Try cleaning the locking hole in the blade with a toothpick. It may help.
If not, there is a fellow named Stagnut that repairs knives.
Bill

If you use your arbor press, it will probably not form the heads properly. It could also bend the pins. Peening involves sharp, light taps which deform the meatal at the head only.
Bill

Then you aren't peening properly. Use a small ( 1 - 2 oz.) hammer with light taps.
Bill

Until they are smooth.
Bill

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Bill

You shouldn't need any compound. Cut the top of the pin slightly higher than the scale, then push the spinner down hard in the press.
It's still a lot easier to do it by hand, in my opinion. Just buff the rivet heads to get them smooth.
Bill

It might be a great idea-especially on the adjustable tension model. "Vagrant's Rivet Setter"- you could get rich! "Al's automatic riveter?" "Sweeny Peeny?" After all- marketing is everything! The only problem is that the pin would have to be exactly the right length. You should make a prototype. In...

A head spinner will do a good job on some pins, but there are others that should be peened by hand. If the heads are properly peened, a quick shot on a buffer will make them look as good or better than if spun.
American knives usually have spun rivets.
Very nice job, by the way.
Bill

EMBARRASSED!!!
You are correct. I FORGOT about the Leverletto!
Bill

I want all of your money!!
Eventually, they will come out with "packing crate" scales, cardboard scales, and maybe no scales-as long as everyone keeps buying them!
Greedy Bill

Agreed, but the safety should never have been a problem.
Bill

The scoop is that those sellers wouldn't know nickel silver if it bit them on the ass. The only knives from Maniago with NS are Frank's picklocks; and AKC's fish, 13" picklocks, and the big AGA Campolin knives.
The modern button almost requires the safeties that fail.
Bill

Nickel silver bolsters can be stamped on the same equipment that is used now, so this should not be a problem. Nickel silver will also stamp "deeper" than stainless, so the bolsters could appear slightly thicker. Liners that include the guards use quite a bit more material to produce, as the liners ...

Claudester Now I know where my commissions come from! Thanks! Glad everyone likes these knives so well. I believe they are outselling the stilettos, now. There should be a new Leverletto version sometime soon. I have a domestically-produced design in the works. It's not as neat as the Leverletto, bu...

Vagrant
Get a second one, and cut the guards off!
Bill