Make the cheek piece to suit your scope hight!!!,
I'd leave the cheek piece higher and cut it down once the scope is in place, you'll shoot better.
Printable View
Make the cheek piece to suit your scope hight!!!,
I'd leave the cheek piece higher and cut it down once the scope is in place, you'll shoot better.
Nice work, keep it up! :)
It seems high when I put my head on it. Though without a scope to look through it's hard to say. I was thinking of getting some iron sights put on it and cutting the barrel a little.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingstoncowboy
Leave it as it is, usually found done Ike this on more expensive pieces, I like!
Do you think 240 would be far enough to sand or should I get smoother? I brought what I thought was one sheet turns out I have 2 of the smoothest I paper I could find at itm which was 240.
Scored me a steel for 10 bucks in the bargain bin, same bin I got my main hunting knife from a few years ago.
I would suggest that you go to at least 600 grade otherwise you will see all of the sanding marks from the 240. You probably wont be able to 600 in a normal paper but you can in wet and dry paper.
Make sure to wet the stock now and then as the wood fibres will lift and you will need to sand it again until it really feels smooth. Use meths to wet it as it evaporates real fast unlike water
Thanks chop that sounds like legit advice. What website sells it? @ebf pretty sure you will know where to get someQuote:
Originally Posted by Chop3r
After you could use 0000 steel wool over your stock..perhaps.
Some hardware stores (bunnings, mitre 10 etc) sell good range of very fine sandpaper
Yep thats another option, although the steel wool does its best to get stuck in the wood fibres and you can make one hell of a mess of a clean stock trying to pick them out
That hardware store in Wairoa, cant remember the name but it has all sorts of shit in there. It fronts onto the road by the river
hammer hardware. Sweet as will go check it out later
Toby, get a fine spray / mist bottle with water to raise the grain. Let the water dry off before sanding. Sand with the grai direction. I use 150 then 240 then 400.
Rather than steel wool (which get embedded in the fibres and rusts) get some synthetic steel wool. I normally use the 3m pads, grey is about 600grit and white is around 1000 grit. They last a lot longer, and you can rinse them...
Get all the scratches from the previous grit out before moving to next higher grit. Look at the stock in different light and different angles to find all the scratch marks...
Looking good :thumbsup:
What size limb saver do I get? Want something around 125mm X 40mm anyone know of a size chart I had a quick look on google but didn't spot anything
Here is a link Toby all in inches though
https://www.limbsaver.com/technical-support/#recoilpads
2.5 CMs to the inch near enough for a dressmaker cum:thumbsup: wood worker
Thanks stug,Quote:
Originally Posted by stug
Going off my converting I want a small grind to fit pad
So the bits didn't turn up today hopefully tomorrow so I can get underway but spent a hour or 2 refining the butt a little more and gave it a quick sand up to get a good look at the grain, I quite like the way its coming out so far. Woods macrocarpa if I didn't say before.
I cleaned the bench which btw most of that mess was not mine
Attachment 20299
Attachment 20300
Attachment 20301
Its looking real good Tobes, I would trim the grip cap back a bit still, but thats just me!
Oh and it needs some crossbolts! :P
I've come to not mind crossbolts :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudattack
trim back as in make it thinner?
Package is on its way Toby. NZ post refused to take it so I had to charter a private delivery company which means it is going to cost you $156.68 unfortunately. Sorry about that.
$156.68 -$156 sounds alot better
Done ! (and you certainly have been )
so 68cents it is
Yep!Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Haha smooth, he got you pengy, $156.68 - (read minus) $156Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Keep a good eye on that stock Toby, macracapa tends to spilt badly
Yeah, the little bugger played on my dodgy eyesight again :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
Revenge will be mine if Toby is not very very carefull opening the package ;)
Thanks for the warningQuote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
I suggest you dont use a blade to open it :P
Looking good there Toby ,,,,nice job
It's a bit scruffy I haven't cleaned it up or made it fit but thanks to a bloody baby fucking sleeping in a room next to the shed I had to stop, pissed my right off I was in the zone
Attachment 20330
Attachment 20331
Attachment 20332
If you pissed your right off, what happened to you left? Has you now got a baby? Should keep it in the shed!:wtfsmilie:
Fuck no, I cant have kids since chemo anyways :D
You still need to practise, cant keep rubbing your wood!
So I got it most of the way down bit rough still sitting a little high cause I haven't finished digging out the recoil lug channel. Also found a huge fuck up that I'm not sure what to do about
Attachment 20343
Problem, suggestions? So far I've got just carry on and hope it doesn't look too shit
Attachment 20344
Plenty of meat there? Take it lower and get it mint?
Can you been the tang down further? Or thin it down, or flash it with copper? Or start again?
If I took it lower would it hurt if I cut the bolts a bit shorter and re threaded them? I think if I go lower then action screws will be a bit long but cutting and re threading really is no problem to me if its ok to do so?
I'd say shorten hold down bolts
I just looked and may get away with it if I do shorten the bolts it'll be a couple of mm by the looks but not much.
