The elves and I worked feverishly to get this done in time to place under the ladie's Christmas tree. The saddle floorplate, trigger guard, and sling studs are shop made. The stock is Bastogne. It weighs 7 lbs even.

What a sweet heart!

That rifle is very nice. Did you use a cnc machine to mill that floor plate or do it on a Bridgeport type? Did you make a fixture to hold it when you cut the bottom?

My son did the machining on our CNC. He cut the inside of the floorplate first, then turned it over and held it in aluminum vise jaws that were cut to the outside shape of the floorplate. The bottom of the floorplate was then shaped and contoured.

He designed the trigger guard, made it first on a 3D printer until I was happy with the shape, then CNC'd it. It fits factory inletting.

Very nice.

Very nice

All around nice job! When I was making bottom metal, I copied Ted Blackburn's idea of a sort of "squirrel cage"

Four floorlates attaches to the fixtrure and then shaped on the lathe, setting up the proper taper, of course

Don't know if you've tried that, but thought I'd pass it on anyway

I see how that would work. I just finished it with a bullnose end mill and it came out pretty smooth, minimal handwork. If I was making a bunch of them the lathe sounds like the way to go.

Lovely!!!

A different look but I really like it.

John

Oh so nice...

Really beautiful work. The case coloring and niter blued screws are a great touch.

The customer originally wanted the whole action color-cased, but Turnbull said they would not case the receiver due to its metalurgy, so customer agreed to do as much as we could. That is why the receiver is rust blued and the rest is colored.

Some customs just seem to hit the "sweet spot". Very nice build quality especially the bottom metal at the trigger loop. Looks racey. Really nice.

And the trigger fits the guard perfectly.

That's a gorgeous rifle. Is that a Pre 64 action? Someone once told me those actions didn't make "that nice" of a rifle. I beg to differ. I love the color case hardening!!

Whoever told you that had SFB, S*#t for brains. Shy away.

Ribbon bordered checking is unmatched.

Own a 1916 AH Fox XE grade with ribbon
interrupted checking pattern and extra long forend with ebony schnable insert. Unmatched indeed.