Todays Project - What did you do today?

[dallen]

(11-08-2014, 08:57 AM)EdK Wrote: David,

What are you doing to it? I assume it's the butt end of the rifle you're working on.

Ed

that's a reproduction of and 1885 Winchester steel butt plate that has to be let into the end of the stock, this photo shows the work in progress. all the bits of blue have to be shaved off same as if I was scrapping a mill table to make it flat, only this is to remove wood until I get 100 percent contact around the outer edge of the plate. I'll have to post up another photo which will show the really fun part of doing this for someone that doesn't really have wood carving skills.


I'm going to stick a couple more photos on here, the first one is the part that's really fun to get inlet into the wood as it wraps up over the top of the stock but has to be level with the wood when all the fats cut away.


Second shows one side where you can see a gap which has to disappear the steel plate won't pull down and close it up.


DA