Adventures in bedding...eek.

[AlNyhus]

Never good when you have to plunge down through this on a laminated stock with a .625 counter bore.

A snug pin to locate and the front and back supported by a jack screw and the sides of the vise padded with some bison hide (really...bison hide. It works. ). Then, channeling my 'Inner Stan' , I finished a cup of coffee, rubbed a new penny along the sides of the cutter flutes, smeared some mold release wax on 'em, tossed some old KFC chicken bones on the shop floor, faced the East and turned clockwise 7 times and went on in there.....

Repeat at the back:

Darn near home:

Turned out ok. Pillars are soaking in acetone now for a few hours. I'll get 'em epoxied in tonight and see what tomorrow brings.

 

[RandyB]

You forgot to spit over the fence. I guess the goblins were snoozing. Good job Sir.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Amazing what you can do with the "smarts" and the "proper tools" to get the job done.

 

[tobnpr]

Wax on the counterbore flutes, never heard of that before. How does that help?
I always flip the stock over once the pilot starts to poke through the other side, wood always splinters at the bottom if try to run it through from one side.

 

[AlNyhus]

Not exactly sure what the wax does but it does reduce the splintering on wood stocks.

I would have flipped the stock over and finished the hole but the pilot holes for the action screws weren't straight in the stock. Had to get started straight and go on through.

A couple others waiting their turn.

 

[holstil]

How fast are you spinning that tool?
looks good.

 

[AlNyhus]

How fast are you spinning that tool?
looks good.

700 rpm for laminate. -Al

 

[jobhopper66]

Excellent work as always. Sure glad you don't have any voodoo rituals in your process!!

 

[AlNyhus]

Sure glad you don't have any voodoo rituals in your process!!

Music has to be going in the shop when I do this stuff.....whatever's appropriate for the job at hand.

Social Distortion's 'Bad Luck' seemed fitting for this one so I let it crank. -Al

 

[rangertim]

I like the plumb color stock Al ! Is that a HBR Rig in the making?

 

[AlNyhus]

I like the plumb color stock Al ! Is that a HBR Rig in the making?

Tim, not a HBR gun build, though it's the same color and stock that my original HBR was. Not sure what it's going to be at this point. -Al

 

[AckleymanII]

Al, I have better luck with the bones of a dead black cat!