Re: [CR]Split rivets

(Example: Production Builders:Pogliaghi)

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:44:29 -0500
To: CR RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Split rivets
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At 11:09 AM 11/29/06 -0800, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>Brooks sometimes used small split rivets to hold the name plate on
>the back of the saddle.

I wondered what they might be because the only go throught the leather, not the frame itself. I think split rivets could even have been used after the leather was on the frame by hammering them in, using the frame as an anvil.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada