inletting a stock

[SkaerE]

anyone have any good ideas?

can you hog out more material than needed and then bed the action (assuming you have a vice for the stock, and a separate vice for the action - and a way to change the postition between the two)

seems like you could make a larger hole in the stock than the action needs, then fill it with epoxy and put the action where it should be then cure it all up.

am i way off base here?

thanks

 

[Clemson]

The answer is "Yes," you can Hog out the inletting and backfill with bedding compound. There are people who put stocks on guns with nothing more than a Dremel tool to inlet the action with. As a matter of fact, I would suppose you could do a quick inletting job with a chainsaw. I have seen carvers who actually used a chainsaw to do sculpting in wood.

By the way, I'll bet you can pick these Dremeled guns out of a lineup.

I like to proceed more carefully so that I can then bed only those portions of the action that actually benefit from the bedding job. Benefit: You can't see the bedding compound in the finished job.

Clemson

 

[SkaerE]

thanks for the info Clemson

i'd be inletting a fiberglass stock, so the resin used in bedding will match the stock material.

 

[Alex]

In the case of a fiberglass stock it may not do any harm, but generally you don't want to take out any more material than is necessary to acheive a good fit and proper bedding, bedding compound is best used as has been described, and I know many who go to great lengths to make scalloped cuts in the areas where the compound goes to make sure people don't think they just hogged the areas out, it's your choice of course, but someone down the line will probably notice what you do.