Building The Steven's Favorite

[TomG]

I think I have most of the issues worked out with the action so I got busy and cranked out some drawings, started on the receiver and actually made some chips today. I'll post pictures as I go and make this thread sort of a build blog. And here..we.....go...

I started with a 1 x 4 piece of mild steel bar stock, milled it to the proper thickness with a fly cutter and squared up the sides.

The next task was to do a rough layout to locate all of the arc centers and holes.

I plan on cutting all of the smaller radii with end mills and the boring head. It will need to go on the rotary table later to cut rounded surfaces on the contours.

Boring the hole for the barrel using the boring head.

The two 45 degree flats were cut with a 90 degree end mill.

The toughest part so far was milling this deep slot with a long 5/16 end mill.