heavy barrel! regular stock?

[nastynatesfish]

Here I sit with raw hands from all the sanding I've been doing to try and get my old stock opened up for the new barrel, and I'm wondering there has to be an easier way to do it. I order a 1" barrel bedding tool but it won't be here till thursday or friday. Just wondering if there's a better or easier way. My barrel is 1.250 at the reciever and 1.11 at the fore end of the srock. I'm using a piece of wood dowel with 90 grit paper on it. Any ideas?

 

[JDGray]

Get some rougher paper

 

[PT1911]

Wood working tool and a dremmel... finish with the sandpaper.


http://www.brownells.com/1/1/10157-barrel-bedding-tool-1-2-barrel-bedding-tool-gunline.html

the above link is to a brownells bedding tool makes all the difference. ( I see you ordered one)

biggest piece of advice, BE PATIENT and take your time, you cannot put the wood back.

Otherwise, there is no quick or easy way, takes a lot of time and effort... I found this out last month!

 

[DRYHUMOR]

Wood rasp

 

[Uncle Mike]

A bedding tool is your best, and easiest bet, we use these at the shop, and brother, it makes all the difference in the world!

Easy to use and fast, but at the same time it will offer enough finesse so you wont 'over do it'!

 

[unwise11]

pics

 

[nastynatesfish]

Soon as I git the barreled action together ill get pics of it.

 

[unwise11]

pics now?

 

[Red Cent]

Lowes,Home Dept............Its a hollow metal tube with scallops machine impressed. Used them for years. I also have two of the barrel bedding tools.

 

[dirtyjim]

the way i open them up is to place the barreled action over the stock lined up with the existing barrel channel then scribe the outline of the barrel with an exacto knife. i then take several chisels and rough it out to within about 1/32 of the scribed line then finish it with a scraper. if its done with a good scraper no or very little sanding will be needed

i've made several bedding tools by setting up grade 8 washers on a mandrel in my lathe & turing them to the corect size then cutting a chamfer on one side.

 

[nastynatesfish]

Future ranger, check out my other post labeled. Remington 700 project. I got pics there

 

[Smokey Joe]

Open up the bbl channel...

Nasty Nate's Fish--There is a tool called a wood scraper--looks rather like a bent screwdriver, but with a razor-sharp blade. They come flat-ended and round-ended. When I did a Boyd's stock for my Yugo M-48 Mauser, the bbl channel had to be opened up--the rounded-ended wood scraper did the job with a minimum of fuss & bother, AND no sore hands on my part.

Cleaned up the bbl channel with sandpaper, started with medium grit and finished with fine; didn't bother to smooth it anywhere near like the outside of the stock, but enough so the varnish lay nice & flat when I got to varnishing.

Brownell's should have the wood scrapers, or any company that deals in serious woodworking tools.

And, PIX PLEASE!! We want to see the work in progress, as well as the finished product!

 

[nastynatesfish]

Well I already started sanding the stock, and I've already got the barreled action apart. Ill start shooting pics tomorrow of what I've got and ill post them on my next set of days off

 

[dubbleA]

Been using these for years. Made by Gunline, they make opening a barrel channel much easier than sand paper.

 

[nastynatesfish]

Double A the one one the left is the one I ordered I hope it does go easier. My barrel at the forestock is 1.1 in so ill have to work it a bit still. Hopefully ill have my bedding tool and my reciever tap both here by monday and have it done by wednesday.