Thread: Collarless pins and horn

I did a few Searches and came up with nothing. Found threads on ivory, bone, and wood with collarless pins but no horn.

any thoughts, ideas or experience with horn? I figure it can be done but what is the long term effectiveness of the pins. Will the horn split as it contracts and expands, will it cup?

I have some nice black horn with white streaks I want to use stainless pins on.

i can't see any reason not to except that no one has talked about it which makes me wonder why.

Are you planning on Spinning the pins or Peening them ???

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...less-pins.html
try this might help if you haven't seen it
I haven't seen them on horn either

Peening. Not sure what spinning them is. Elaborate please.

Or are there any other alternatives to collars?

The only spinner I have seen is for making the rivets on chainsaw chains. It works well for them. I suppose the same thing could be used for any rivet. Sharptonn has done some pinning with very tiny washers that disappear under the peen. I am certain you can get a peen to be almost round and with the right shaped and sized dimple in your anvil. You will have to experiment and I look forward to your results.

This is one of the best but it ain't cheap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD46KQxndjw

Once you mentioned SS pins things changed, which is why I asked, most of us use Nickel Silver pins, and SS washers some of which are tiny and can barely be seen..