Thread: First stock bedding Job

So I took a whole bunch of measurements and started drawing it up in CAD to see how low I needed to set the action into the stock to get the bottom metal close enough, and the action screws to actually reach. It took a while measuring the stock at both action bolt holes to get an accurate taper, then taking that and overlaying the action to bottom metal dimensions I needed and finding the right compromise of action height. Which ended up about .5mm above the top of the stock.

Once I had that sorted I modeled the 3d stock area with the inletting details I needed. Created the tool paths and started mounting the stock up in the CNC, which took a bit to get square and level.
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I then machined the inletting to fit, with no allowance for bedding, so I could test everything. Also opened up and centered the barrel channel.
It took a couple of goes to get the action area wide enough so it was clamping down to the bottom rather than the sides.
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Then test fit, bit sloppy but everything was close enough that I was happy with the height.



Next to put it back in, bore holes for the pillars and machine a 2mm clearance in everything except two height references.
I also filed one pillar to legnth, and one was too short, so I drilled it out half way and epoxied in another small aluminum tube in. Not ideal, but I made do and glued it clamped together so it shouldn't have any crush.




Then apparently going slow enough to take a photo but not slow enough to notice id got the pillars around the wrong way, I got the action masked, and glued the pillars in at height, just clamping the action in and making sure the barrel was centered and at height.





Then I had a fun time extending one of the pillars in place and cutting them both to legnth....