One of the highest quality and most useful and informative videos on KZfaq. An excellent educational work. Thank you!

Countersink it to 100 degrees and you'll get a far stronger joint, aviation practice .

very nice presentation. No music, just quite spoken demonstration and explanations. Beautiful, Thanks Steve

Really nice, great explanation including pounding it apart.

Liked the technique, and the total no-nonsense approach. No babbling or extraneous chatter, just right to the point!

This is exactly what I was looking for ... Fantastic idea! And thanks for the very quiet video with your calm voice and no blaring music in the background! Thanks so much!

Steve, great tip many thanks for this. Am building a PC case from the ground up and was breaking my head on how to hide rivets, you just made my day ;-) Cheers

Never hold a piece of metal with your hand when drilling with a drill press if it gets caught it can spin the metal now you have a spining blade I've seen someone have to go to the E.R from that use a clamp or weight. The counter sink tool we call that one a rose bud and use it to deburr in aerospace great video i enjoyed it.

This is a wonderful technique, beautifully demonstrated. Thank you.

that was exactly the information i needed to repair an aluminum piece that was probably riveted in the same way.. only knowing pop rivets so far, this was the perfect how-to for me :) thanks a lot for taking the time to share this.

Fantastic! I also never knew this was how it could be finished. Any Gruman body truck or jet has billion of these. Little did I know this could be a DYI. Thanks for taking the time and using your skills to make this video. Reading the comments you can now call yourself the best educator on KZfaq. I'm 68 and had no clue. Thumbs up n subscribed.

The idea to do this with your own stock is cool! Never occurred to me. Recently I was cleaning up my favorite pliers to give to my son, and suddenly noticed the beautiful rivet that holds the two halves together - virtually invisible when ground flat and polished, and taken for granted by me. That led me to bump into your nice best-practice sharing video. Thank you!

Incredible Skill .... The 2 Rivets are Almost Invisible and made Strongly joined as well ! Wonderful & THANKS !

Thank you so much. I wish I had seen this before the "YOU CAN WELD ALUMINUM SUPER EASY WITH THESE RODS!!!!" videos. Half of my welds (brazing?) failed. My surface where cleaned well. I think it had to do with the aluminum being to thick to maintain the heat. It was L shaped 1"X 1 and 1/4" and roughly 3/16" thick. I was attaching 3" wide straps that where thin. Even with MAP gas it wouldn't get hot enought to consistently "weld" bond together. Steves rivets seem like a better solution for mechanical bonding.

I like that you expanded both sides at once.

Dang...that was actually pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

Very well explained; Thank you very much Steve; Much appreciated.

This is an awesome instructional video, just what I was looking for. I'm definitely going to be stealing this is for my next project

This why you want to pick up those old well made hand tools like reamers and all types of metal tools when you see them cheap at a yard sale. They may be invaluable later.

With all of today's exotic tech, thx much for the reminder about the value of basic rivets... such a simple yet venerable fastening method, and as old as the use of metal itself.

It is very apparent that you have done this many times. Thank you.

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL SIR! THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!

Beautiful! I hadn't seen this before! Thanks Steve!

Thanks Steve. Very helpful and informative!

Should use the ball side of the hammer to pound rivets.. causes the metal to spread out more in your countersunk hole.

Very good presentation, Steve, thank you

Very cool technique and super satisfying to watch.

Excellent demo, I picked up a couple of tricks, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Beautiful finished product, very cool. Thanks!

in the 70's i learned to use the ball end of the hammer , but then again it was mostly on steel , not as soft as alloy . good vid , thanks

Very cool technique! Looks great once it's filed. Thanks for sharing I'll be using this for sure.

Thanks! That's a great idea. Very clean look. I need to work on my hammer skills to pull that off. Wow!

Great Job! Thank you for making this video. Easy to listen to and to understand. Would just like a list of your equipment with simple description so that us Newbies can get find or buy what you have in your workshop to make the rivets.

Appreciate the attention to every detail. Thanks.

That's brilliant, mate. First I've seen this technique. So simple and economic.

Fantastic result, well done!

Excellent idea! Thank you for sharing. I'm sharing it too.

That's amazing Steve. Thanks a lot!!

That was the coolest thing I've seen in metal work on you tube

You can only see the rivets because they are a different alloy of aluminum. Great video.

Very good instructional video, thanks for passing on your skills.

Love that demo,and I don't even do metalwork!😊👏👏👏👏

Thank you. Used my first rivet today.

....thank YOU very much !! very precise work !!! kinde refards from Switzerland !!

excellent demonstration, cool technique

Exactly what I needed. Thanks, Steve.

Magical! Great demo.

its not what I was looking for but what a nice finish job. I was impressed when the rivet nearly disappeared into the metal.

Excellent tutorial.

That’s incredible advice...THANK you

I can see the same flush surface rivets setup on my old hack 5" engineer's set square. It's had a hard life abused by many but still gives an accurate 90 degrees. The newer set i recently bought (clean shiny and of small sizes) appear to have all been brased-welded with no sign of any rivets. I bet that if they were ever dropped that's the end of them for accuracy.

Wow that is awesome. Thanks for sharing

In additional to my previous comment in the aeorospace technology the solid rivet is used instead of welding like aircraft fuselage such as Boeing etc. using basic tools nearly The difference is mini pneumatic 1.4 kg hammer ( price is $30) and bucking bar instead of hammer and vise earl years flush rivets are hand made for steam tanks with basic tools

I learn something today for sure..Thanks.

Great video. Thanks for the tips!

Well done....Professional job. Thanks

Thanks I'll be using this Technic on my next project.

Superb work ^_^ very educational. Thank you very much!

Great Video, Great information, Thank you for posting

I think a little more metal in the head of the rivet would have held the pieces together better and kept the metal from bending. It was only able to bend because the rivet failed. A little more counter-sink would have done the job. But the rest of your work is exceptional and I learned a few tips from you to help me out in the future. Thanks.

Wow! That was impressive

Excellent job!

thanks for the video , excellent work .

That’s very impressive and could be equally useful.

Nice photography!

Wow thanks for this video, awesome trick 👍

That was amazing. Thank you.

Excelente!!! una lección más aprendida, muchas gracias!

Bonjour. Très bonne vidéo. Merci.

How cool was that! Wizard!!!

Thank you for this nice trick :)

Great technique thanks!

nicely done.

You can make amazing tools using brass bars and copper rivets using this technique. I still have mine from carpentry school.

Thanks Steve!!

This is perfect thank you

All that beautiful work, then destroy it at the end. Lol. Great vid!

That is SOOO cool!

Very well presented.

Good stuff. Thanks

great tutorial!

thanks! neat and informative

Excellent!

This is great! thank you.

great video thank you

When filing aluminium you get a better finish if you put chalk on the file.

thanks man i was trying to make a barrel and was wondering how to join the metal ring together

Very good

nicely done

Thanks for the info!

Good stuff....thank you!

Excellent. Thank you for this tutorial!

Nice. Thanks

Excellent!!!

so nice!

Thanks! Amazing!

nice job

VERY nice!

That is so clever.

Very nice video and very informative. I hope to God that I never have a need to do this myself because I don’t think I’d have the patience to do that! I’d be reaching for the CA glue