I've inlet a couple blanks with my bench top mini-mill, but I want to get better before I attack a nice English walnut blank I have that is waiting to get carved. My thought was to do at least one more to refine my technique, but this time I want to improve efficiency and document my work process and sequence of cuts in a cookbook/tutorial format.

For example:

Step 1: Cut Rear Tang and Flat for Receiver bottom
Cutter: 1/2" end mill
Process:
1. Mark rearmost radius of the tang
2. Index to centerline, bring cutter down to touch wood
3. Plunge cut to a depth of .x"
4. Let 'er rip...

Step 2: Radius edges of front receiver ring
Cutter: 3/4" ball end mill
Process:
1. Scribe a line x" from centerline
2. Lower cutter x" below top edge of wood
3. sneak out to the scribed line
4. Let 'er rip...

I am very familiar with Duane's excellent thread on the Searcy Scholarship Rifle, as well as the "show and tell" thread pinned at the top. I was just looking for a little more detail on proven or recommended sequences, techniques, etc. for manually inletting a blank for a Mauser 98 using a mill.

Has anybody created such a thing for their personal use, or might possibly know of a tutorial posted elsewhere that might give me a little more information and save me some time documenting my own trial and error efforts?

P.S. In the absense of a detailed written procedure I am alway open to helpful tips and pointers!

Here is how I do it; mill out everything that doesn't look like a Mauser receiver, working from the inside to outside; that is the most important thing to me.
Looks like you already know how to do it.

Sorry, I stick a pattern in one side the blank under the router and like dpcd said remove everything I don't want.

Chisels and files and scrapers for me. No mill in my shed.

That's hard core.

Ok, so I guess I'm probably overthinking this...

I will just refine my techniques as I go I guess. Thanks.

Montea

A few years back Pete Grisel from Oregon taught a couple of classes on inletting and shaping from the blank. He coached us on inletting with a manual milling machine. As far as I know he is not teaching now.

Trinidad State in Colorado has been teaching stock making from a blank which includes inletting with a manual milling machine. It is offered in their NRA summer courses again for 2015. You can get all the details on line through Trinidad or NRA. I highly recomend it.