Just for your knowledge I simply held onto the action body and stroked it over the hone mandrel as any other piece I would’ve honed. Lapping is a good idea in theory but the Remington action is so weak the lap mandrel flexes the action body as it’s pushed from one end of the action to the other. Once again, all current custom actions check all the tolerance boxes. Considering this is for your knowledge by all means try, experiment and learn.
You are not removing enough per pass lapping to make the action warp. if you try to take .0005 at a time lapping you will probably end up sticking the lap or with stitches where it grabbed and tore the hell out of your hand....Just for the record I have lapped all actions I have made maybe 30 or so and checked them with a mandrel ground between centers to check for straightness , used as a full length plug gage after being sized to a 2 " gage pin....the mandrel must be the same size as gage pin and slide through otherwise part is warped....These are a few that are not finished yet....And yes they where wire edm'd first.....
It sure would be nice to have one of those finished out
Well you know your biggest fan down here in arkansas wants one in rblp if you ever find it in your time to make one. Ill cherish it just like my main neck turning tools.
