Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What’s the going rate for glass bedding?

I have a Winchester model 70 and I just put on a new McMillan stock that was made for the rifle by McMillan. The stock fits fine and the rifle shoots well but I still would like to bed the recoil lug and fill in just a little bit of the gap under the barrel full length. I’m curious what the going rate is for this type of bedding work thanks.

It might vary quite a bit , but I think $150 would cover it , but hell what do I know .

Did lots of bedding jobs myself pretty much common sense kind of thing , lots of info. on youtube .

Northern_Dave put together a very detailed and informative "how to" thread with lots of pictures here on the 'fire a few years back.

I'd start there and do it yourself, if you're thinking of going that route at all.

$150 is WAY high. A democrat used car salesman might charge that much, but an honest gunsmith would not. The actual work involved with that job is about 10 minutes to do it, and about 15 minutes to do the clean-up when the glass is hard.

If the barrel channel is centered and floated now and no inletting or drifting is needed at all, around here you can expect about $35 charge. That's what I charge for such work. (When I was still doing it. Now I am working toward retirement, so I am not taking any new work anymore)

I paid $300AUD for this bedding job. I suppose you get what you pay for!

You get what you pay for, sometimes more or sometimes a lot less, or get robbed blind.

Take your pick

Nice job !

I would say $150 is not far off the mark. You couldn’t get someone to come out and screw in a light bulb for $35 around here.

I dont do bedding anymore except for myself, no way I would do one for less than 100.00, add pillars and it would be 150.00 Alex Stitman of Masterclass stocks is probably the best in the biz.....his bedding work is 200.00 plus....get what ya pay for and trust me I have re done some of the "cheap" bedding jobs and most are a real mess and done completely wrong.

That is indeed a nice bedding job.

Every once in a while mine come out almost that good........

Very nice job there.

I've done a few of my own with Devcon 10110 putty. It's easy to work with, and gives you plenty of working time before it sets up. There are a lot of tutorials online, youtube etc.

If you are referring to filling in the gap between the forearm and bbl, I'm sure that will be more than a regular bedding job. When I do that it's after I bed the action, making it a two part job.

Lots of videos on the subject. It really isn't that hard if you tackled it your self.

WS

Just watch out if it is charged by the hour. I tried a local gunsmith that charged $125 an hour for his services. He charged three hours to glass bed my McMillan stock on my 98 in 9.3x62. $375 was too much for that job and I was not happy with the quality of workmanship to boot…

I paid $215 for bedding and pillars from 1 of our Fire gunsmith's, he completely destroyed a mint rifle and the walnut stock...let me know if you'd like his number or business card.

I had a similar experience

I’ve done some DIY bedding in the past but I don’t want to mess up the $700 new stock. I guess my primary question is can you trim away the excess material sometime during the curing process?

I can't even tape up the stock so the bedding doesn't splooge all over it in 10 minutes.



That's like $50 USD right?

+1. By the time I use clay dams, masking tape and an xacto knife to trim up the tape, apply Johnsons paste wax, I am in for 2 hours at least. LOL

My first glass bedding job was on a practice rifle, a M38 Swedish Mauser. I learned a lot and things went smoother with future rifles. The M38 was fine, but air bubbles and voids taught me a few lessons. I also have the habit of mixing up way too much bedding compound.