dunganick Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Well the new stock for the Howa arrived saturday (or rather i collected it..... and the £36 import tax ) Have been doing a bit of work on it and it has now about 10mins ago been glass bedded. This is the 1st time ive glass bedded and im terified frankly . Alot of money and 6months worth of waiting coming down to if i put enough release agent on. Right now i am thinking...... did i put it here.... did i put it there.... In 24hrs-36hrs i will find out. I will get some pictures up shortly of what it looks like with a bit of work. (no oil yet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted July 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 a picture Unfinished with only a little bit of shapeing done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 looking good nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Good luck nick LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadeye ive Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 That looks like it'll stain and oil up beautifully Nick ...........What method did you use to remove the wood around the contact areas of the action ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted July 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 the front lug is designed to be bedded, so it actually was about 1mm too deep (otherwise i wouldnt have glass bedded) the rear platform or what ever you call it, i used a drill bit which was flat on the end (apart from a small dimple to keep it straight) and took off about 1mm of material either side and infront of the mounting hole., i then used a knife to criss cross the wood remaining about 1mm deep and sort of chisel it out, then using a bit of sand paper to roughly smooth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadeye ive Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 I believe the rear contact area is called the tang Nick .............Best of luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crieffy Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Looks good - keep the pics coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) Looking good there Nick. What glass bedding kit did you use? I know about the 'waiting' to find out whether you have a one piece gun/stock or not, you have to put a lot of faith in that release agent! Just looked at the picture properly and answered my own question Looks like the Acraglas kit Edited July 10, 2006 by stuartp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Excuse my ignorance chaps, but what is glass bedding? and how is it done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Axe, It is used to ge more predictable results from your rifle and stock (theoretically) It won't make it any more accurate but it should make it more consistant. Essentially you couldn't think of a worse material for a gun stock than wood, as it moves about when hot/cold/dry/damp etc etc, as soon as the stock makes contact with the barrel it can upset the harmonics and produce unpredictable results. So what you can do is sit your action in a 'chassis' make from firbregalss or similar material, or sit you action away from the wood using pillars, thus removing or reducing that unpredictabilty factor. Problem is then, you have just done away with another excuse for missing I can find very few, if any, really good articles on the web about it, this is one of the better ones I have found Bedding I bedded my CZ and I would stick the pictures up here, even though it did the job the finished result looks like a dogs breakfast The gap between the stock and my action was so big I needed 2 kits to complete the job, but when I drop the action into the stock it just drops in without any play, sideways or fore/aft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 looking good Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Thanks Stuart. Good luck with it Nick, your a braver man than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the last engineer Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 good luck Nick fingers crossed for you Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Times up Nick! Come on tell us if it came apart OK, or are you busy with a big vice and hammer Here is one for the anal 'legal eagles' out there, how can you bed a stock (which HAS to be done with the rifle horizontal) for 24 + hours without a horizontal lockable rifle cabinet?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted July 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 well its free and apart from a small void aroudn the front lug (not enough bedding material put in) its worked out great. I left the rifle out over night without bolt or trigger mech and then once it had dried enough that it was just setting rock solid, i placed it in the cabinet (at this point it had about 18hrs of setting so was pleanty hard enough) I am now floating the barrel the last little bit (long job as the rosewood cap is v hard) and have started to work down the grades of sandpaper and would imagine i will start filling the grain end of today or tomorrow afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 (edited) Yes I stripped my gun down and didn't leave the house (it was overnight anyway) but it was left laying on a radiator as it was in the middle of winter, the bolt and mag were locked in my cab though. EDIT: as Nick replied in the meantime, that post was in reply to Fisters, to make sense of it. Edited July 11, 2006 by stuartp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Good man Nick. Looking farward to the next report. Frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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