Finished polishing the High wall this morning. Was a bit slow; got sidetracked into recutting the checkering on the hammer. Had been buffed and polished out, and wasn't straight, some crossing lines, etc, so had been messed with before. Started in trying to straighten them out, eventually had to just essentially recut the whole thing, and still didn't entirely clean up the mess, but didn't want to thin it too much.
The stocks aren't dry enough for another coat of finish, so started in on another project. When I cut this high wall stock, I made two stocks from the pattern. Intent was a centerfire rifle and a rimfire. Pulled out the low wall action and the stock blank that I had 90% duplicated, and started in on the inletting.
For the tangs, I don't use inletting black, I prefer to use lumber crayon; it shows the pressure points better instead of just the rub points; so that it's easy to not overcut and loosen the tangs. Mark the tang sides, insert into the inletting, shave a few thousandths thickness off of the rub spots, and repeat until the receiver is seated into the wood, and starts hitting at the front of the stock. I then use inletting black on the action edge to mark the front of the stock, and start cutting high spots off of that also. Mark, insert, tap with mallet, remove, cut contact spots, repeat 50 times and you're done. I did this for about an hour and got 95% there, before I quit for the day.
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Ballard stock adaptation/inletting/fitting (Read 10081 times)
