Thread: Brass spacers

Bruno, do you make yours wedge-shaped? Also, do you go straight from the grinder to 1000 grit or do you move up? Does that 1000 cut very quickly?

I don't make it wedge shaped. If needed I adjust the scales near the butt.
I don't use power tools as I said. The file is for shaping the spacer, the 1000 grit only for polising. It really doesn't take away much metal . Just enough to make it smooth.

Brass sheet (Stainless as well) is available from any of the online knife supply stores. I think I bought some from Texas Knifemaker's Supply, but there are many others out there.

Texas Knife has from 0.020" up to 0.125" sheet on their website.

I ordered 3/32 bar stock from speedymetals.com. Came today. Looks like it will work fine.

Came across a cheap and elegant solution for wedges while rescaling an eskilstuna the other day - coins. Wanted the brass look to match the brass pins being put onto ebony scales but I didn't want to go and order more bar stock than I'd use in my lifetime. Fortunately I've a stash of old Nepalese currency and the brass alloy 5 rupee coins are about 3/32 - 1/8" thick. While not everybody has rupees sitting around the house, much of the foreign currency is a lot thicker than US coins. While the face value of newer coins is more than the metal value, its still a pretty easy option.