Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Documenting a build--.280 Rem in Classic American style

My limited photography skills may not show it, but I did not like where the flutes (my term for the transition between the radius of the forend and the surface around the magazine box) at front of the bottom metal ended, as shown in the photo below. They were too far forward, and did not precisely match. I have cut a bevel on the edges of the front of the bottom metal so that the forend can be more rounded in cross section. But the arc of my flutes in the wood and the arc of the beginning of the bevel in the metal did not meet--there was no transition. The taper on the wood aligns with the front of the floorplate hinge, and the bevel on the bottom metal has already started by then.




So I cut the flutes in the wood back further, so they align better.





I had to refinish that area, but what the heck, it is my gun and I can do what I want.