Dealt with a household item that's been bugging me for a while. The rivets in our little paring knife have been degrading over time. No doubt accelerated by dishwasher action vs hand cleaning, but seems I will never win that battle. Which is why Daddy's Japanese knives are off limits. I digress (breathe... breathe....).
I thought handle rivets were plastic but its a steel pin in the middle with some kind of plastic shroud. Anyways easy to pop out. My plan was was to turn some brass pins & peen them on both sides to make a mushroom cap type of rivet. But I noticed the hole in the handle was not concentric & rather large. Maybe there was a different kind of end end cap that is somewhere long lost.
I thought handle rivets were plastic but its a steel pin in the middle with some kind of plastic shroud. Anyways easy to pop out. My plan was was to turn some brass pins & peen them on both sides to make a mushroom cap type of rivet. But I noticed the hole in the handle was not concentric & rather large. Maybe there was a different kind of end end cap that is somewhere long lost.
