tom,
I see a lot of slight variations but what about some method of a through the stock draw bolt like the ballards?, leave the top tang and possibly make the lower longer for pistol grip.
not having looked at the rest of the parts block etc how easy are they to take appart?
irish

That "pigtail" lever could be cleaned up pretty well, though it would mean either casting new ones, or fabbing some new levers and grafting them on.

A little wider, and flatter, is better looking, to my eye, than the round and too skinny looking lever that I saw in the pictures.

Lettering, on the sides of the actions, is a PITA to get correctly even, if you are CNC cutting it, on a milling machine, unless you are doing the engraving in the same set-up as the machining of the flat. I've spent far too much of my life tweaking a setup with a dial test indicator, to think that THAT is a good way to spend ones life.

Cheers
  Trev

I'M GETTING READY TO LEAVE FOR THE BIG GUNSHOW FRIDAY MORNING SO THIS WILL BE BRIEF.

Irish - we do have a through bolt that holds the stock on.

i agree the bottom tang could be extended to the end of the pistolgrip. we would cut and weld. it is too expensive to make new molds .

the top tang is an option right now. maybe in future we can incorporate it into a new mold design, along with the long pg.  now we weld it in. it is nicely done but expensive and we don't have the angle right , plus its too thick.

so we have lots of room for improvements !

the ATF said we had to put the model number on the receivers entered on our books.  and the only alternatives we had was hand stamp them (yuk ) or have done on a cnc machine, which we did.

i agree totally with flat clean sides. the few made with side markings may be collectors items someday

when i'm back next week i will print out all your suggestions and reply to them here. ( i'm not too hot on the lever shape either !

sorry, i did not get any e mails . please resend to :

ftondrus@hotmail.com       thanks, tom

 On the other hand, there is quite a bunch of folks that have been clamoring for a Borchardt and yet a very limited means of obtaining one.  Were I you, I would consider making Borchardts and forget about W rifles.

Brent

Is there a reason the model designation required couldn't be on the top of the receiver instead of the side? It could be smaller and engraved on the ring above the chamber, or the top tang.

The color looks pretty good.   

And my apologies about the BPCR legality issue.  I presumed that such modern actions were disallowed, with the exception of CPA.  I see there is another.   

Still think a Borchardt would be more marketable.  But it is your money.

Good luck,
Brent

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Get rid of the big hump and make it look more like a High Wall or Low Wall....add Radius and blend.

Add a stepped flat on a sweeping arc...........then add more radius around the bolt head to make the new surface look smaller.

No-BS