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Those bases look sweet. Mike is a very talented guy. Looks like you're doing this one, "right."
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Beautiful work. Thank you for all of the pictures. +1 I really think it's cool how you're documenting this thanks for doing it!!
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Who are you going to for checkering?
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I haven't decided yet. I have used both Kathy Forster and Sherry Abraham in the past, and their work is great.
So you have others I should add to my list of candidates?
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A little progress that no one will see...(with an apology in advance for my poor photographs) Getting the inletting tight and consistent tested my patience, my talent, and my aging eyes. But the biggest trick was going back in after the inletting was done and glass bedding the rifle to give it a more stable platform. It was nerve wracking to make sure I did not screw up my earlier efforts when I was removing wood, slopping bedding compound around, and then cleaning up the inevitable overages. I can do a fiberglass stock in about a third of the time I spent on this one. But I think I pulled it off--all photos of the inletting shown above were taken after the glass bedding was done. I was able to have D'Arcy Echols look my progress over. The forend needs to be about an inch shorter, the flow of the action into the grip needed more work, and the nose of the comb was not symmetrical and too blocky. I am indebted to him for his charity toward a hack.
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Looking good. Enjoying this thread
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Tag, for future drooling purposes!!!
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Looking great! Definitely a worthwhile project. Thanks for sharing.
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So I did post an extensive thread on my finishing efforts in the gunsmithing forum (See Finishing a wood gunstock) I have taken the stock from this to this
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First time with the metal back in the stock once the finishing began. Attention now turns to more polishing before sending the parts off to be blued. Keeping the corners around the floorplate crisp required diligent attention. I think I got rid of the "dead spot" in the curve of the cheekpiece that Tejano quite appropriately pointed out as not being quite right.
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Dadgum,that is going to be one sweet rifle.
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Beautiful build.........I'm wishing I was your left-handed neighbor!
Thank you for sharing the journey.
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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.
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Thanks everyone, for your kind comments. My additions to this thread are likely to taper off at this point. I am doing finish polishing on the metal work, prior to sending it off for bluing. None of that work lends itself to "how to" photos (not to mention the additional fact that I do not know what I am doing when it comes to polishing.) And Sherry Abraham is 4-6 months out on checkering, so that will not be back before summer.
So stay tuned, but don't hold your breath.
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Wow man loving this thread thanks so much for taking us along on this project!
What checkering pattern are you looking at from Sherry?
Are you having the steel rust blued? If so, who is doing the work?
Thanks again this is really great,
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The checkering will be pretty simple. Open point wrap around on the forend. The pattern on the grip will need to accommodate for the front of the cheekpiece and the sharp break between the bottom line of the stock and the grip. This stock comes pretty close, but I want the back of the grip to be different. I don't think I want to spend the extra money for rust bluing. I am trying to figure out how much polishing I need to do before disassembling it and sending it to Glenrock Bluing for their dip service--they don't do any more metal prep and just dump it in their tanks.
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