Grinding Colby Bolts

[LexEdman]

What is the best way to grind Colby Bolts Flush on a Textured Handle
Thanks Ed

 

[i4Marc]

What kind of texture? Like stag or jigged bone? Or like a repeating pattern like a textile weave? Probably have to grind down close to the surface then go in with a carbide burr in a rotary tool.

 

[Ken H>]

Very carefully By textured handle, you're saying the scale material can't be ground because it would mess up the texture? I might use something other than corby screws for that. Perhaps a peened pin?

 

[tim37a]

Don't grind your Corby's. You will generate too much heat and may melt the epoxy or burn the wood around the Corby. Use a hacksaw to cut them off close to the scale and then grind the last little bit.
Tim

 

[Geoff Flato]

I'd always use domed pins for stag and the like for exactly this reason. That said if you've already glued it up I'd cut them as close as possible with a hacksaw or bandsaw, and then go at it with a foredom or dremel with carbide burrs followed by finer diamond burrs. I use that approach for contouring a butt cap to match stag. It works well, but touching the underlying material is impossible to avoid

 

[AVigil]

Dont install the corbies, until 80% of your handle is done with coarse grit

On glue up use a bolt, waxed to secure the scale material. When dry remove the bolt and shape your handle.

When almost done install the corbies, I use maxi cure CA.

Then trim with saw and grind on slow with a coarse grit as close as you dare, then use a higher grit to finish off the corby.

 

[Darrin Sanders]

These are Corbys. I cut the majority of them off with my bandsaw, carefully filed them down to the scales then buffed them to "melt" the edges that were still proud but down in the grooves. You can still feel them ever so slightly but your fingers/hands slide over them like a bar of soap.