Before and after photos of the 86 in preparation for engraving. This one started as a real beauty.
Looks like it might work out though.







Ugly work is over...now the fun begins.

Roger,

PM me if you would tomorrow some time. I have a Steve Earle Wesson action that is going to require some of your classic scratching...

Rich

I look forward to the finished product. I always do.

Is this one going to be Winchesterish also....

Beautiful polishing job.
A question about your technique, if you wouldn't mind. On the before pictures I noticed some, what appear to be, pretty deep pits right on the top edges of the sides of the action. Did you just keep polishing until they were removed or did you fill them with weld before polishing?

Steve,
Not sure, but there's time to figure it out. It's off to the stockmaker.

Yellowdog1,
No welding. Just polishing. There's lots of meat on these rifles. The problem comes with screwheads. I probably removed .010" off of the sides, which means the screwheads stick up that amount. No big really, but screws have to be re-domed or re-made.