Making rivets with a knife lock is not that difficult. This will not take much time, and the only materials you will need are a couple of nails.
Such rivets will not need to be flattened; I will form a hat. They themselves will rivet from small blows, firmly holding the side pads of the knife.
We take nails
So, the steel nails themselves. You can buy them in any hardware store in all sizes; there is definitely no shortage of them now.
It is advisable to take one thicker and the other thinner, but you can also take the same type. But in this case, processing them will take a little longer - you will have to grind off one nail.
Making rivets from nails
First of all, let's form a beautiful hat. To do this, clamp the nail in the screwdriver chuck and process it with a metal file.
First from the side.
Then from above.
The view is decent.
It's okay if the thickness of the cap is different - after the rivet nothing will be visible.
Then we take the knife for which the rivets are made and measure their length. It should be more than half.
Cut with a hacksaw for metal.
We sharpen one, the thinnest rivet, to a cone at the end.
The second, thick one, with a core at the end.
We drill a blind hole with a drill whose diameter is approximately 0.1 mm smaller than the thin rivet.
It turned out to be a couple.
We check the depth so that the rivet that will go in does not rest and reliably compresses the knife pads.
Prepare the knife. Drill a hole the same size as the large rivet.
We rivet with a hammer.
Holds up great! The lock clicked inside. We rub the cracks with wood glue, use sandpaper to form a single surface of the handle and then rub it with impregnation.
It turned out very beautiful.
Such a connection will not fall apart, will not fly out and will serve for many years.
