I worked in sheet metal for a couple of years and only met one real master mechanic, an old fellow who had learned his trade in England. Totally awesome! Imagine someone who actually apprenticed. Hammer riveting wood should be the ticket because you will have controll over how much the wood is compressed. The rivet head has to be backed up with a suitable dolly, anvil or metal table top. The trick to a good looking rivet job is to have rivets of the proper length and to hold the rivet set dead square so the rivet peens equally on all sides. The side seam is both riveted and soldered. And next to it is a lovely dimple of appropriate dimensions that allows the rivet to be peened over into a small dome. The other end has an appropriate sized clearence hole so the the parts to be riveted can be driven tightly together. The tool are called, what else, "rivet sets". I still have several old tools for riveting sheet steel. He acquired, but did not use very often, tools from previous generations. Did his apprenticship in the early '30's. The real fun ones are those that are driven up from under the boat, swinging the hammer over your head. I've even got some slightly bigger to do, those are 5/16 diameter, got to figure about 200 hammer wacks for each of those.
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Oh have I got a deal for you, how would you like to learn the craft of peening rivets? I still have a few hundred to do, so come on over and I'll teach you how to do it. It is so much fun you start counting how many times you swing the hammer. Do a hundred or so at a session, keep telling yourself it is fun.
It isn't hard to do only about 100 wacks of the During the peening the opposite end has to be backed up by various means to prevent knocking the rivet back out. Then it is peened, first with a ball peen hammer then finished with a concaved rivet setting tool in an air hammer. Then the roves are driven on the nails, the nails cut off about 1.5 times the diameter above the rove. Most of these started as 30 penny nails, driven into holes slighly smaller diameter than the nails. I'm sure this is what you are refering to, my boat has something over 3,000 of them.
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