hi,

I've started working on my first stock for my Cogswell .375 H&H cut from a blank, the pattern is as per the original stock i.e old British classic, the wood being used is Ghana Teak or African Teak, light in colour with some pretty grain structure, (pics to follow). finished fitting the magazine well and guard, its now time to do the topside (receiver, barrel channel, rear tang) since the barrel has a tapered recoil lug about 8 inches from the receiver this lug sits a little higher on the top of the blank so i've cut the mortise for this lug and the receiver lug also the small trigger assembly loop under the rear tang. Am i doing this rite? everything lines up beautifully once the inletting screws are in place, i havent started removing wood for the receiver and the barrel, how should I proceed now??, i also want to leave a little extra wood where it has been unecessarily taken away like the small legde of wood on either side of the rear tang, given the thickness of the trigger assembly i feel that this bit could use a little extra support from keeping the trigger assembly slot a little narrower. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated also, I dont have access to a barrel-bedding tool, is there any way i can make one at home?


regards,


Zubin

I cut my rough barrel channel with my milling machine, and a 5/8" ball end mill. A great tool that I made up for final barrel fitting, is an old 5/8 wide chisel, heated, and bent at a 80 deg angle, ground round at the end, then sharpened to a scraper. Cuts on the pull stroke. A big rattail file can be heated and bent at 30 deg at both ends for removing material in the channel. Epoxy on knobs at both ends-make sure its a new file-once used on metal, its not too good for wood.

In Al Linden's book he said he made barrel scapers from old barrels cut at different diameters, then sharpened.

You cannot beat these scrapers from Gunline
http://www.gunline.com/inletting.html

Of course, you will first want to rough out the channel with a table saw or router.

Brent