Thread: 6x45 Rem barrel

@Mathias that looks great!

I figured Id spend a bit of time on this ones stock and tidy it up in general. The metal work is pretty much perfect after a couple of blue touch ups.
The stock is a typical patchy beech wood and needed some refinishing in the barrel channel after opening it up for the heavier barrel. It was pretty good over all with only the odd mark and a compression mark on either side of the butt from someone winding it up in a vice at some stage.



I hit them with the steam wand on my coffee machine which lifted them out well.





I also added a couple of s/s pillars in the action screw holes as it was showing a bit of wood compression and they are bad for splitting if the action screws are not evenly loaded. The front was already bedded but I added a bit in the rear pillar and under the bottom metal to get a nice even torque without adding load.







It then got a good scrub in thinners and a coat of walnut brown with a touch of a darker stain in the lighter patchy spots. I used a very dark Black bean stain on the checkering to give it that classic Sako look the several coats of true oil. Came out pretty sweet and a nice satin finish.









On to the next one...