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<blockquote data-quote="druryj" data-source="post: 3333543" data-attributes="member: 10465"><p>The brass is as good as it's gonna get...for now anyway. After yet more polishing, I spent a few hours today sanding the stock down to 400 grit. It's smooth and ready for stain. Then I cleaned up all the drill holes, inside the inletting and barrel channel, and everywhere wood meets metal. I'm no cabinet maker, but this thing is coming together so everything fits right and tight with no gaps or boogered up areas. (At least that will be seen).</p><p></p><p>I need to get serious now on fitting the sights and barrel tenons to the barrel. Ugh. File, check, file, check...tap, tap, tap. Once I get the tenons installed properly, I have to carefully measure and drill through the wood stock and the steel tenons, with the barrel installed, Then there are two tenon pins to be tapped in through the stock and the holes I just drilled in the tenons to hold the barrel in place. This has to be precise; and that's not my strongest suit. I tend to just beat the crap out of stuff to make it fit, but that approach is not the one I need to take here. I think I'll leave this for later, after I ponder the process a little more and am fresh, and armed with new drill bits to enrich my prospects of doing it right.</p><p></p><p>The pics show the parts I have to install and get lined up; the barrel, the tenons to be fitted in the dovetails, the tenon pins, and the stock, with it's cut-outs for the barrel tenons to sit down in. Once I install the tenons in the barrel, it's a matter of very precisely measuring how far down and how far back to drill the holes through the stock and barrel tenons. There's not a lot of room for error. If the drill holes don't run cleanly through both sides of the stock and the tenons, so I can tap those tenon pins through, I run the risk of screwing up the tenons and/or the stock.</p><p><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200307/475d08701049f67f97b558e7426137c1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200307/a4e1f48a67cd4a949aa989d909d34147.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="druryj, post: 3333543, member: 10465"] The brass is as good as it's gonna get...for now anyway. After yet more polishing, I spent a few hours today sanding the stock down to 400 grit. It's smooth and ready for stain. Then I cleaned up all the drill holes, inside the inletting and barrel channel, and everywhere wood meets metal. I'm no cabinet maker, but this thing is coming together so everything fits right and tight with no gaps or boogered up areas. (At least that will be seen). I need to get serious now on fitting the sights and barrel tenons to the barrel. Ugh. File, check, file, check...tap, tap, tap. Once I get the tenons installed properly, I have to carefully measure and drill through the wood stock and the steel tenons, with the barrel installed, Then there are two tenon pins to be tapped in through the stock and the holes I just drilled in the tenons to hold the barrel in place. This has to be precise; and that's not my strongest suit. I tend to just beat the crap out of stuff to make it fit, but that approach is not the one I need to take here. I think I'll leave this for later, after I ponder the process a little more and am fresh, and armed with new drill bits to enrich my prospects of doing it right. The pics show the parts I have to install and get lined up; the barrel, the tenons to be fitted in the dovetails, the tenon pins, and the stock, with it's cut-outs for the barrel tenons to sit down in. Once I install the tenons in the barrel, it's a matter of very precisely measuring how far down and how far back to drill the holes through the stock and barrel tenons. There's not a lot of room for error. If the drill holes don't run cleanly through both sides of the stock and the tenons, so I can tap those tenon pins through, I run the risk of screwing up the tenons and/or the stock. [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200307/475d08701049f67f97b558e7426137c1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200307/a4e1f48a67cd4a949aa989d909d34147.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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