I do my own, but a guy I work with took a rifle he was building to a smith for bedding. The bedding needed a little work, as the action wasn't sitting square in the stock. The smithy straightened out the bedding, glassed in the action and the triggerguard and charged him $150 bucks. I thought that this was extremely high. I would have thought $50-75. What do you guys think?

Sounds about right to me.

I was quoted $100 by my stockmaker.

<and here's where i go, NOT being cheap>

I've learned that unless you charge 3 times more than you WANT to, you can't make any money on a stock.

from FRIENDS i get 100 bucks... If it was "joe blow's" gun... 150 is a good start.. and poor insurance for one good slip

jeffe

Page 168 of my Brownell's #55 catalog (the page right after the Index) says $50-$95 for glass bedding a hunting rifle, $65-$150 for a Garand or M1A, and $75-$150 to pillar bed a rifle.

They've got typical price ranges for lots of kinds of gun work there.

H. C.

RW Hart---Bed inletted stock in Bisonite and Free Float $133.90
Mark Bansner charged me $125 to bed and free float a Colt\Sauer some years back. I don't think he does general gunsmithing anymore.

Those are the only PA gunsmiths I deal with.

AT THE BRIDGEPOINT ARTISAN we get 55.00 to bed, float and seal the barrel channel. We do wholesale work for other retail shops who only want it floated - 20.00

We charge $75 for a bolt action rifle to bed with accra-glass gel.

Like so many things, you get what you pay for.

Shawn

We charge $125.00 to bed in a McMillan stock.
That is for pillars, steel bedding in the action area and glass in the barrel channel with a float of .040-.060"
Every bedding job is checked with a dial indicator. If the dial moves more than .002" when the front screw is cracked loose 1/4 turn, it does not go out until it passes the test.

Celt

[ 08-20-2003, 18:35: Message edited by: Celt ]

unfortunately, in the service world, you don't always get what you pay for, but you certainly pay what the traffic will bear.
I would imagine having the job done in NYC would cost more than in, say, Tangleweed, Ok.

beeman...
If you took a rifle in for a bedding job in NYC, the jack-booted thugs and that little turd-burglar Chucky Schumer would be waiting for you when you went to pick it up. Can you say "No, I'm not a serial sniper; I just like to hunt and shoot a little" while they're beating the clinton out of you?

I am having a great gunsmith do an "accurize" package on one of my rifles right now. For $270 he trues and squares the action, pillar beds the action and barrel, cleans up and adjust the trigger, and recrowns the barrel. For an additional $95 he is reaming the .243 to .243 AI.

This will hopefully bring this rifle to life!

Good luck finding a good gunsmith in NY..........That's coming from a NY'er

When one jumps into the big DGR's with stout recoil the rules change.

For wood stocks, Needed items include:

Stainless steel pillars custom machined to fit the action. Correctly installed with clearance between the pillar I.D. and the action screw O.D.

Recoil lug on barrel, if already installed, must be trued on the rear and drafted on sides & front.(For the barrel lugs I install, proper draft is machined into the lug and the rear surface is square to the bore axis)

Action Recoil lug on say a M70 must be trued and checked for "lock in" taper and corrected if needed.

Wrist of stock reinforced with a through rod of high strength alloy steel.

Interior of magazine well reinforced with fiberglass or kevlar or carbon fiber.

Cross bolts installed and reinforced.

Action, barrel up to the barrel recoil lug, and barrel recoil lug bedded with high strength bedding compound.

Rear tang bedded with clearance to prevent splitting the stock.

If a fiberglas stock, the interior from the barrel recoil lug to the receiver recoil lug should be filled with a epoxy & fiberglas matt mix.

Remainder of barrel channel bedded with quality bedding.

If a M70, throw the bottom metal away and install Williams one piece metal, or a custom drop box.

Bed the bottom metal.

And a few other items to hold things together.

The cost? Like the MasterCard ads, Priceless when you need it.

[ 08-21-2003, 06:35: Message edited by: John Ricks ]

Thanks to all that replied. I guess he'll just have to judge it by how accurate it turns out to be...

My shop fees are:

Glass bed the action and barrel chamber area and float the barrel is $80.00

The same with pillars is $120.00