5 SECRETS TO PERFECT RIVETS... EVERYTIME! 

Holes on the side of the bench pin is pure genius! Also, the 3D piece WOW!!! Thanks so much💖

This tip of having the various holes drilled in the side of your bench pin to hold rivets for sawing is is so cool! Love this!❤

I'm not a jeweler but your videos are of great help when I build small parts.... for example tube rivets are very useful to build vintage style custom switches and other electronics parts.

Thank you for your excellent presentation: you've taught me a trick for cutting those little rivets... In old Europe, where I live, for traditional riveting (for example in cutlery) we let the rivet protrude half its diameter on each side to hammer it. Here, many riveters don't use a spacer: simply a flat steel plate to be placed on the anvil, with small prepared holes corresponding to the different half diameters of the rivets. (A thousand apologies for my approximate English). Be well. Greetings from Belgium.

You are awesome. Thanks Greg for all your vids.

Thank you sir!!!! About to take my first class involving riveting. 😊

Incredible introduction! Look, although I'm looking for a solution to a different problem - namely fixing two embossing plates together so that they don't shift when passing through a printing press - the information you provide is essential and you present it in a way that is exciting and easy to understand... so ... rivetting!

I don't even know what a rivet is, but I'm so pleasantly amused by Greg's excitement over them haha. How did the youtube algorithm get me here

I've already been a bit worried about you not posting anything. Good to see you again. I might have some tipps to go along: Filing any burrs off a hole: I often use a diamond coated ball burr (a normal fine ball burr will work as well most of the time) in some kind of file handle. This will avoid scratching the surface of the metal and reduce the amount of work to be put into clean-up and polishing. Brilliant tipp for holding rivets in the bench block. Absolutely logical, but haven't seen that before. I surely will copy that one. :) I've been missing an important step when using a flush cutter: Using a flush cutter will harden the metal. So either the rivet needs to be annealed again or the cut needs to be treated with a file to remove the hardened metal or else riveting will be a bit inconvenient and probably yield a suboptimal result. "It will flatten the pre-made side, so be aware of that." Right. I've got a steel block for just that purpose - to avoid flattening the pre-made head. As far as I know, you cannot buy those but it is easy enough to make one yourself using a piece of tool steel (e.g. a 10x10mm piece that is normally used to make punches, anneal it, use ball burrs or punches to make some depressions in which the pre-made rivet head can rest; then harden and temper it). This kind of "riveting anvil" will also act as a perfact spacer and will even shape the other side of the rivet into a domed rivet (e.g. when you're doing a "custom" rivet by balling up one end of the wire).

This topic was………riveting? Great videos. Thank you for your thorough explanation

Excellent! Thanks for this!

Amazing video as always!

Thank you!💖

Just found you and so happy I did! I love how you sound so excited about what you're saying! Great tips...thank you!!!

Thank you so much!

Let me be the first to say... riveting!! Thanks Greg! Have missed you and your great tutorials. Always a treat.

Nice tutorial! Thanks!

Excellent instruction! Thank you.

I needed this to be more comfortable with my riveting process. Thx!

great video! thank you.

So useful-great explanations and detailing of the process. Thank you so much!

Great to see you again!!! I havent done much with rivets but it looks like I need to start experimenting!! I already have an idea for some earrings using rivets. As always thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!! 💙👍💙

Thank you!

Love this video! I have always wanted to know how to do this..🙂

Jeweler of 35yrs hand made ! Love your work you teach the proper way and explain spot on . I have picked up a few things always room to improve and some times you need to go back to basics . Thank you !

Thank you for this wonderful ,insightful video. Stay blessed🙏❤

that was helpfull

I've looked far and wide but cannot find your tubing cutting jig. Is this tool still manufactured? Fantastic videos, btw. I've been making jewelry since 1968, and am still learning. You have given me some new ideas, and much inspiration...THANKS!!!

I just started up my own jewelrymaking kit and "studio" which basically is the kitchen and whatever small part of the livingroom table I can make free of toys and such (the joys of motherhood 😉) when I find time. Not ideal but it works Collection of tools and such slowely but steadily growing. I have been looking at your channel for a few weeks now, settling on you as my favorite online teacher. Love the clear explanations, enthousiasm. And you are so incredibly likable and a joy to watch. Next project, riviting testing 😁

Can you please make a video on texturizing metal ? Thank you.

hi! im a young aspiring metals artist… riveting has been a pain, but i do enjoy it. this video is super helpful, too! a question ive had, though, that i cant seem to find any good straight answer to is removing a rivet… if i have a rivet that i need to take out, what is the least destructive way to remove it without widening or warping the drilled hole?? thank you so much!

Thanks Greg! What gauge is your spacer?

I need to tube rivet a larger hollow saucer bead. Anything I need to do differently? Do you by chance have a tutorial?

I have a question I have four square 8ga ss wire that I want to use as a separator. I've tried soldering, but it's hard to hold the pieces to solder. Do you think you can use a rivet in to the end of the square wire to hold it in place and then solder?

if you need to have more than one rivet to connect two (or more) pieces, do you drill all the holes at once?

I'm not a jeweller or goldsmith, but that was very interesting. Good explanations together with demonstrating the process. Thank you, your enthusiasm is contagious, now I'm going to search the house for copper and something to rivet together.

Can rivets also be used in moving joints? That is to say, make the rivets loose on purpose so the parts move? What issues would this cause, if any? Thanks!

So maybe I don’t understand fully how a rivet is domed. Basically stretching the flat edge of metal rivet out and then ‘pulling’ it downward to form a dome. Then how do you strike a flat surface and pull down edges and still not mar the base ?

Do you worry about corrosion from using different materials? Like using steel rivets in aluminum panels. I use 1 1/2 times the diameter of the rivet to cut the rivet. I think it's close to your method. Now to learn grommets.

All my rivets are sharp edged