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When I make my folders I was always taking time to set up and make my counterbore depths, recess the countersunk screws that hold the liners together and recess the screws on the scales. Always being a guess for me being somewhat new to knifemaking. Rather than doing it each time as a new step , I have developed out of some of my leaning scraps, templates! I always use .125 thickness for the bolsters and the same thickness for the scales. So I took one of the ones that were cut to the wrong dimensions and made the perfect counterbore template using the stop set on my drill press. So now for each of these phases I just run the counterbore or drill down to the bottom of the template and lock the stops in place and each time it's the exact depth
Also on another note since I always use the same thickness liners and scales I have taken a bar of .125 old flatstock and have drilled 2 rows of 10 holes each in it. I use 1-72 pan head screws' but you can do this for any screw or whatever size you use alot. I use Kit's method of tapping with the Skill twist drill and make each hole a tapped 1-72. Then I take 20 of my 1-72 pan screws that are 1/2 inch long and run them all the way thru. Once this is done clip the ends of all the screws off and take the whole bar over to the grinder and sand the bottom flat. You now have 20 screws that are the correct length without the chance of rounding the corners off your liner if you did them while attached to your scales.
Also on another note since I always use the same thickness liners and scales I have taken a bar of .125 old flatstock and have drilled 2 rows of 10 holes each in it. I use 1-72 pan head screws' but you can do this for any screw or whatever size you use alot. I use Kit's method of tapping with the Skill twist drill and make each hole a tapped 1-72. Then I take 20 of my 1-72 pan screws that are 1/2 inch long and run them all the way thru. Once this is done clip the ends of all the screws off and take the whole bar over to the grinder and sand the bottom flat. You now have 20 screws that are the correct length without the chance of rounding the corners off your liner if you did them while attached to your scales.
