Bedding

[Shrek]

I have shot stocks with aluminum bedding blocks, then bedded them, and they shot much better after being bedded. People are saying to do skim bedding, but I gouge out channels in the aluminum with a Dremel tool, and leave only the portion of the aluminum that is right around the action screws, so the height of the action remains the same; also, that is tantamount to having pillars. I gouge out the recoil lug a bunch, on top and front. I think the irregular surface of the gouging process gives better grip for the bedding compound. Watch the youtube vids on bedding, but I would recommend doing a basic wood stock as your first bedding job, so as not to mess up something more expensive.

This is how I do it. You do not want the bedding material too thin. Too thin a skim coating and it can crack up. Unless you are good with a dremel and use one regularly I'd practice some before I jumped on the stock. Be aware of where the chuck is as you are working down in the stock. The spinning chuck will relieve the nice clean edges of your stock in a half second and a cutting tip will walk itself up out of the barrel channel and down through the checkering in the blink of an eye if you are not careful.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Yep grind it down and leave it ruff for a good bedding surface

 

[Eraser]

This is how I do it. You do not want the bedding material too thin. Too thin a skim coating and it can crack up. Unless you are good with a dremel and use one regularly I'd practice some before I jumped on the stock. Be aware of where the chuck is as you are working down in the stock. The spinning chuck will relieve the nice clean edges of your stock in a half second and a cutting tip will walk itself up out of the barrel channel and down through the checkering in the blink of an eye if you are not careful.

That's so funny you should mention those things to be aware of. I've done them all to some degree or another.
Thanks

 

[181backup]

This is how I do it. You do not want the bedding material too thin. Too thin a skim coating and it can crack up. Unless you are good with a dremel and use one regularly I'd practice some before I jumped on the stock. Be aware of where the chuck is as you are working down in the stock. The spinning chuck will relieve the nice clean edges of your stock in a half second and a cutting tip will walk itself up out of the barrel channel and down through the checkering in the blink of an eye if you are not careful.

That's so funny you should mention those things to be aware of. I've done them all to some degree or another.
Thanks

I think all of us that have done this job could have used that warning