Thread: Pressure Fitted pins

You're asking about pressing the pins into the wood, horn or plastic. If it were metal scales and metal pins it might work but the metal would need to be steel. Everything else is too soft and unstable. The wood, horn, plastic and aluminum world grow and shrink with mild temperature changes. A press fit is only a couple of .0001s inch. Drilling would not produce a hole size close enough and the pins would need to be finished to a very close tolerance. Google metal dowel pins and press fit. Tool and Die Making 101.

You may be better off gluing the pins in place with epoxy. In the end the peened pin is best bang for the effort. They have la track record with proven results over a 100 yrs or more.