I'm doing my first-ever build. Half the time I'm making newbie mistakes, the other half I catch myself before I do something stupid. So far - knock on curly maple - I haven't done anything that would cause me to have to scrap the stock.
I have a question on the tang bolt. With much trepidation, I successfully drilled the hole through the tang and trigger plate (that center-to-center drilling jig in a drill press actually works!) and threaded the trigger plate.
I countersinked the tang some, but not enough. My question is how do you guys get the screw head to be flush all the way around the tang? I aligned the tang bolt hole such that it wouldn't go through the trigger guard at an angle, and I was successful at achieving that. However, that leaves me not exactly tangent with the arc of the tang. The photo below may make more sense:
I have a question on the tang bolt. With much trepidation, I successfully drilled the hole through the tang and trigger plate (that center-to-center drilling jig in a drill press actually works!) and threaded the trigger plate.
I countersinked the tang some, but not enough. My question is how do you guys get the screw head to be flush all the way around the tang? I aligned the tang bolt hole such that it wouldn't go through the trigger guard at an angle, and I was successful at achieving that. However, that leaves me not exactly tangent with the arc of the tang. The photo below may make more sense: