Here's a boat load of pics showing most of the steps of building a "simple" grip cap. It starts out as one of Pete Grisel designed 2 screw caps. Client wanted a skeleton with a little more meat around the wood insert. Allowed a little more engraving surface and a pleasing scalloped border.
Lots of pics.

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Building the fixture to hold the cap for the following operations.

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Machining the flip side of the cap.

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Looks like a "timer sucker" but nice!

Drilling hole for swinging the arc on the domed top. CNC lathe would be great. I would have used my other CNC mill like the bolt handle, but time involved with building the fixture would be much longer.

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I always super glue my grip cap to the stock for location then use my hardened drill bushing and home made #8-24 tap in my cordless drill to finish the install.

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Back to the mill to cut out the skeleton profile.

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Cutting the insert from the stock blank. Sneak up on changing the cutter diameter in the program for a perfect fit.

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Polished and out and back from engraving. Insert is much smaller than a normal skeleton so I checkered it as tight as my machine would go. Pretty close to 32 LPI.

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Rust blued and beautiful!
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Originally posted by gunmaker:
Rust blued and beautiful!
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Yes Sir!

Wow! Looks like a ton of work went into it and it looks great. Thanks for sharing.

Lee

Superfine!

Beautiful it is!

Nice work.

Dave

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

Stunning! Now you need to make a couple hundred of them to get back the time put in

Stunning craftsmanship.

Beautiful work !

I REALLY enjoy threads like this showing the work in steps with lots of pictures !

Thanks for taking the tine to share Gunmaker.

Wyatt

Wow ! Looks beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to photograph and post up the pictures.

Very impressive work with attention to detail. Thanks for sharing!

I'm curious; would you elaborate on your tap?

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Originally posted by gunmaker:
...home made #8-24 tap in my cordless drill to finish the install.

It's just a 5" piece of stressproof that's threaded 8-24 and 2 flutes milled with a small ballmill. You can see the thread relief near the 3/8" shank. If/when it breaks, that should be the spot it does. I don't run the tap any deeper than I need to and there should be a few threads left sticking out of the wood that could be unscrewed with vise grips. I also cut flutes in socket head cap screws using a cut off wheel. The 10-24 for the buttplate is then tapped with a cut off allen wrench in the drill running the "indestructible" homemade socket head tap.

I tap a few threads at a time as the flutes pack up pretty quick with wood chips.

Another tapping tip with the 8-24 is I level the cap surface so keeping the tap square with the work is much easier.

That and the stock look truly magnificent. Beautiful workmanship.

Can you show more pictures of the finished rifle.

You need to show a couple of your beautiful 22RF.