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Eric Krewson:
My trigger plate sits above the wood, I can't inlet it any deeper so I am filing and sanding it down a bit, I needed to sand it down for browning anyway. I made a fixture to hold it while I work on it.
Eric Krewson:
I cut some buttstock moldings, I didn't think to take a picture of the when I got them finished.
Eric Krewson:
Started cutting the lock molding and realized I had ton of wood to remove in the forestock, it is much too fat from the lock to the entry pipe. This wood is beautiful but so splintery that even with tools sharp enough to cut a free standing hair I am getting some tearing out around the beaver tail, I will probably have to do all the cleanup with an emery board, a slow process.
I plan to turn the obvious end of the lock inlet patch almost black with stain so it won't show like it does now. I have some tannic acid that should do the trick, I plan on this being a very dark rifle to hide the precarve flaws and patches..
Eric Krewson:
I am calling this lock panel done;
Eric Krewson:
I inletted the lock during damp weather, we had an extra dry day today with very low humidity, I went to to check my lock inlet today and the lock wouldn't even fit in the mortise, the dry weather had shrunk the stock that much.
I blacked the edges of the lock and tapped it into the inlet, a little Dremel and diamond file work and I had the lock fitting back where it belonged.
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