Silicon Carbide For Your Bowling Arts and Crafts

Sprinkling ashes to churching up a pistol or a rifle grip.

Recently, Walter was drinking his coffee and pondering the legacy of Theodore Donald Kerabatsos and the Challenger Shuttle Launch adjacent attempt to sprinkle his ashes on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Donny, as Theodore was affectionately known, would want his ashes to live in a way other than the errant booger in the Dudes nose, Walter assured himself. What would Donny want done with the second Folgers container of his mortal remains? For a cup and a half of coffee, Walter ran through various scenarios in his mind. Mix them into a custom bowling ball. Load them into a batch of 6.5 Creedmoor and go ring the gong at 1000 yards. Suddenly, genius truck and Walter realized a fitting use: adhering them to a few pistols and the grip of a rifle stock with the use of two-part epoxy.

Walter quickly called up 71 Creative and explained to them that he did not need the Silicone Carbide, he already had some ashes to use, but needed their multi pistol kit with epoxy, brushes and sand paper. After a back and forth, they sent out a kit to the Sobchak Security LLC HQ. Walter sorted through the safe and selected a Gen 1 Lonewolf Timberwolf frame with an aging stipple as the first recipient of Donny’s Remains. After stripping the frame, Walter sanded it with 200 grit paper, cleaned with alcohol wipes, masked off important areas and jammed punji sticks into the pin holes to ensure no interference with working internals.

After mixing the two part epoxy in a room with a temperature in excess of 70 degrees, Walter, liberally applied the concoction to the grip with a paint brush. As the epoxy started its bonding process, Walter muttered a few short words about Donny, and popped off the lid to Folgers’ can. This time, Walter paused for a brief moment and checked for a breeze with his Kestrel, before slowly tilting the Folgers’ can onto the glistening pistol frame.

As the ashes fell, the sun came out from behind the clouds, casting a lone beam of glimmering light onto the falling remains of Walter’s dear friend, Donny. For only the first time in Walter’s life, Walter felt the presence of a higher power and immediately knew that Donny approved of this use of his remains. 30 minutes into the curing process, Walter removed the masking tape and with an exacto knife, addressed any imperfections in the edges.

After 24 hours, the pistol gripped Walter’s hand like a Pussy Hat Karen to the Russia-gate Narrative. Unfortunately, it gripped to rolls of Walter’s stomach with a similar tenacity, making inside the waistband carry very uncomfortable. Walter recommends using silicone carbide for outside the waistband carry.

Next, Walter gathered Donny’s ashes that didn’t make their way on to the pistol and prepared a carbon stock that Walter is getting ready for an up coming 14.5 Pinned and Welded 6.5 Creedmoor build. With some two part sculpting epoxy, Walter had built up the grip a few days earlier. After sanding down and cleaning the desired area, Walter masked off the grip and repeated the same process from earlier.

Using a bucket to catch the Donny’s extra remains, Walter sprinkled the ashes on the grip, rotating the stock to ensure a uniform coverage. This worked so well that Walter plans on using the dregs of Donny’s ashes on AR grips and other rifle stocks.

The new grip angle and the added texture of Donny’s ashes really tied the stock together. Donny’s ashes gave Walter’s old pistol frame a new lease on life and is now his preferred pistol for competition and outside the waistband use. Within the tactical bowling community, there is this idea that the best solution is the most expensive solution. Walter finds fault with this. A core tenant of the Sobchak Security LLC ethos is the idea that a simple solution can be just as effective as a far more expensive and complex one. Whether it’s using a ranging card for quickly mil’ing a target or churching up an old pistol or rifle stock with some ashes, Walter encourages bowlers to work with what they have.

Here’s the kit Walter used for the silicone carbide and the epoxy for changing the stock’s grip angle.