inlay pins where to get

[mountainman70]

Hello y'all, where can I buy those small pins to secure inlays? Thanks, Dave

[Sidelock]

Make the pins or nails out of scrap of the same metal you made the inlay from. 

[smallpatch]

You can buy tiny GS, brass, or iron nails from Track, or MLBS.
Counter sink the inlay, file flush.
I cheat by using epoxy as well.

[Hungry Horse]

My local big box hardware store has them in several sizes, and types of metal.

  Hungry Horse

[Mr. Bubbles]

Sterling silver pins are available from Rio Grande and probably other jewelry supply houses.

[Mike Brooks]

I make my pins from the left over bits of the coins I cut my inlays out of. If you hammer them out into a tapered nail shape they work harden and end up el perfecto. (a little Spanish lingo there)

[gumboman]

Try knife making supply companies. I bought some recently and it was very inexpensive. I think it was JANTZ SUPPLY where mine came from. They have brass, german silver and stainless steel. Made some nails for an forearm inlay I recently installed and the brass pins are the exact same color as the sheet brass I used for the inlay.

[Robby]

I guess it would depend somewhat on what you are inlaying. A simple way, as related here by Don Getz is to drill a hole, say .062 through the inlay, take a wire brad, say .075 or more and taper it, tap it into the hole till the friction of the brad holds it fast, cut and file smooth. For silver, I do as Mike suggests and make tacks from scrap. I do make a head on it thou by holding my formed wire with pliers and putting a torch to the end till it beads up. Drill a hole through a piece of steel the diameter of my wire, counter sink, it insert the wire and tap the bead till it forms to the countersink, use the same countersink on the inlay.
Robby

[deepcreekdale]

I sort of do what Mike does. If inlaying sterling silver, I buy .062 silver wire, snip off a piece, chuck it in the drill press at slow speed and file a tapered nail about 3/8 to 1/2 inch long. Same with brass. If using a double cut file, it leaves nice rings on the nail and takes less than a minute. I use a small piece of wood to back the wire while filing so it doesn't bend. Then I drill about a # 55 hole in my inlay, make a small counter sink, then drill about a # 60 hole into the stock using the inlay as a guide. I use my engraving hammer to drive in the nail, then lightly peen to fill the countersink. I guarantee, those nails will never come out. Don't ask how I know this, they are in that wood tight.

[Dphariss]

I make my pins from the left over bits of the coins I cut my inlays out of. If you hammer them out into a tapered nail shape they work harden and end up el perfecto. (a little Spanish lingo there)

I do the same thing. I will then set "teeth" on them to make sure they never move. This was a batch made to decoration a pistol. Cut them from a silver round I hammered to thickness with tin snips. Ready to be hammered to a square taper then maybe filed to size. Then one with the teeth added with a sharp knife or chisel. Again these were for decoration of a pistol but the same technique works for inlay nails as Mike related. I just hammer them smaller and a longer taper.
Dan





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