Making long and strong push pins

For some hobby gluing jobs I needed long pins. Long because I was going diagonally across corners. Strong because the longest I could find were too bendy to cope with my needs. (They were sold as intended for quilters, who use them to tack together light cotton materials.)

A dressmaker's pin ~ bent with simple hobby use

My pins also needed to be really sharp and hard wearing. Needles are ideal, but they need protection for the not-quite-so-sharp end ~ think of drawing pin heads.

A dressmaker's needle ~ sharp at both ends ~ not ideal for pushing

I was toying with the idea of gluing an everyday small nut onto the end of a needle. The glue would stay in the nut as it hardened into the thread. It would also grasp the needle provided it formed a bond through the eye. It seemed a bit clunky, so I delayed making a trial.

By chance as the plan for doing this sat in the back of my mind I came across some possible alternatives. The developments are illustrated below.

My latest idea is to use small plastic binding posts [116507].

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See also 'Thoughts before binding with posts ~ binding screws' [114735]

See also 'Explaining and illustrating binding screws ~ binding posts' [116507]

See also 'Samples of binding with posts ~ binding screws' [116535]

We are concentrating on the use of Binding Posts in bookcraft, but they are used to a great extent by leatherworkers (for decoration and for joining two pieces of leather together). Electricians also use the "posts" for the terminals built into an equipment case for anchoring cables to the main item.

Here is the code for a link to a local USP [116537]

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