Drawbore Pins

They came out beautifully. Very nice job Mauricio.

-- ~Tony

Very nice, I’ll have to make a set for myself.

-- Bondo Gaposis

Those came out real nice and they going to be very strong
as the wood is really only a cover and the pin itself is the strength
they are better than the ones available elsewhere
Jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very nice Mauricio!

Nice work Mauricio, they look great. I blew out 2 of the joints on my travel plane till with the draw bore pin. One of these probably would have been a good idea.

Look forward to the bench assembly too

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

Your work is always quality

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

I had to do some research on what a drawbore pin was and how it functioned. Come to find out it is the woodworkers version of a tool I used for years as a Ironworker. We called them Bull Pins or Drift Pins. We had another name for them but I won’t repeat it here. We used them to align the bolt connection holes between beam flanges and columns so that we could insert the bolts. They weren’t as delicate as these nor as pretty. Great job Mauricio.

-- Lee~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

Thanks for the great comments everyone!

Mos, what caused the joint to blow out? Was the offset too big? Or are you talking about the back of the joint where the pins exit the hole? I want to make sure that doesn’t happen to me! 

L2L, that’s exactly what I used for the pins I got from HF. It’s a metal working tool repurposed for woodworking.

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

Very nice work. Mauricio

Luvt2learn
The difference in the two techniques is that the drawbore joint is intentionally made off-set to pull the joint tighter and supposedly stronger.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Thanks for the link to http://www.wkfinetools.com/index.asp
That’s a real good looking resource!

-- Gary, Florida. http://www.penturners.org/forum/f70/servicepens-2013-a-98908/

Thanks Jim!

Gary, thanks for that link. I also liked the idea of hexagonal handle and a round ferrule but I could think of how to make it right.

I especially like the hexagonal handles that also curve over the length of the handle. But it just seemed a little too complicated.

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

Excellent work, they came out beautiful ….please forward for a closer look…lol BC

http://www.wkfinetools.com/contrib/jThompson/restore/TapOctHandles/TapOctHandles-01.asp

Mr. Thompson makes hexagonal handles on a jig. HTH

Very cool! What is a compression nut? Is that just a regular brass nut I can get from the plumbing department?

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

Nice, Mauricio. I’ll let you know when I need to borrow them. :-)

-- "hold fast to that which is good"