This isn't exactly metal working but it GOES on a working metal machine, a 1,200 rounds per minute machine. This is a buttstock for a legally owned WWII German MG 34.
My Finest Work (Big File!)
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Wood is not my forte. The best wood work I ever did was a set of cabinets to use some un-used space at the front end of my fifth wheel trailer. I got lucky and found the exact same cheap paneling they used for the rest of the trailer.
Let's see, center cut, top is near the center grain of the log, hardwood (duh), kinda looks like the stock of my Kentucky mountain rifle. That would be red hard rock maple. Of course I am probably totally wrong. Yeah, seems probable.Free software for calculating bolt circles and similar: Click Here
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I don't have pictures of this mounted on a gun as it goes to a client's gun. I hope to do a photo shoot soon so that the pictures on my website will show my stocks mounted on guns but that is a PIA in California.
As for how I cut the grooves, I used a homemade checkering cutter. I took 1/8 die stock and a 1/8 ball mill and cut a groove down the middle of the stock. I then ground the front to a profile like an upside down carving chisel and cut away.
There is a REAL trick to doing this since this is cutting end grain which does NOT want to cut, it just tears. Cut 90% of the depth then put sealer on (that is thinned finish) and let it dry, then cut 99%, do it again. Then just go back about 5 times after that shaving off the high points.
If you don't do that the back ends up being nearly black due to a combination of high absorbtion of finish and the rough cut you get.
Michael
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Ken,
Your right a 42 tends to run faster than a 34. I made a matching set of each for this client who a minty 42 and this 34 which has all matching numbers.
Ever fired either of them? My girlfriend prefers the 42 over the 34 cause it fires faster. Of course, she is the one who can hit a NOX bottle at 125+ yards with a 4" ruger Mk I!
Michael
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