Thread: Second time round

Cant remember if I covered it on here or not but a few years back I got an old Vostok 17-01. It underwent a pretty radical transformation coming out as a straight pull bull pup kinda thing, it worked all right but was over complicated and had a few issues, I decided on re-doing it a bit but got to the point where I knew I just wasn't going to be satisfied with any extent of alterations on that platform.

The MK1


So on Sunday evening, knowing I was about to have three days to myself I got to work on a scuzzy ol' chunk of 9mm ply. Cut 6 peices out of the desired shape then laminated them with epoxy resin.


Did most of the outside shaping with the belt sander and the inside bits with the router....touchy stuff alright...very little done with a rasp @Toby


The MK1 required the bolt handle to be lopped off so to replace it I stepped the end of the stub then mirrored the step on an m8 thread then mig welded it at work, ground it down then run a die nut over it. While waiting for the laminating to happen I zinged a new aluminium one up on the lathe.


Once I was happy with the shape I gave her a nice thick coat of epoxy, followed by some rigorous sanding, followed by another nice thick coat.


Then 3 coats of primer (sanding in between) and 3 coats of matt black, she was ready for final assembly


Final product surely aint the prettiest swan on the lake but is showing a bit more promise than the MK1


As no one had anything bad to say about the el cheapo bipods on tm I got one on the way, and at $25 its 100% of the money Ive had to fork out for this project