With the spare action inlet down to depth it was time to sit the actual B/A in the wood as far as it would go and mark the barrel channel then start the inlet with a wide flat chisel
With that started the rest of the inlet tool are set out and given a sharpen. A round chisel I shaped to do, the flat cuts at front of action and at the front of the reinforce. A large and small round ended scraper and a pair of small gouges make up the balance of needed tools at this stage.
The first part the needs attended to is the barrel reinforce before the rest of the barrel can be started into the stock.
I take the diameter of the barrel right at the end of the stock where the fore end tip will be fitted and a half of that amount is marked on the face of the stock end as that is where the barrel needs to be set down to.
So still a way to go at this stage.
After some time there is starting to be a show of the smoke marking on more of the channel and when it show the full length and the barrel is down to depth it is time to stop.
With a good clean up of the B/A it is time to leave it for the day.
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