Thread: Geneva type collarless pins

Most are nothing more than small pop rivitts,pure junk IMO

No, Pixel! look at them! I piece pin pinned with a perfect dome from the factory. Both sides! The factory Gencos and the like, had to be pinned by a press. They look and work excellent. Just how to replicate? IMO!

I would think a rivet set would do it. Kind if like a doming block only on the end of a punch.



In this case you would only use the dome part and not the holes for pressing the material to rivet.

And you may have to make a special one for that particular pin ?

10Pups got it right.
It takes a few tries (or math) to get the pin length correct, but after that you use a doming tool.
After you get a good dome going, you can use a vise to do the final lock down.

You can make your own doming tool using scrap rebar, a drill bit, and a dremel round head carbide cutter.

I think they used a tool called a head spinner. Commonly used for finishing the pins on pocket knives, used to be available from Jantz. You put them in a drill press with a corresponding rest underneath.