Looks awesome!!

Great work!

After hot caustic blueing. Covered in oil in the pic:

This has to be the best thread/post on this whole forum Keep up the good work

Very nice work..

Thanks. If anyone has questions feel free to ask. I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.

+1!!!!!

I love looking at your work.

Thanks for posting TDK!

Here are some non-official cellphone pics of the finished rifle:

I also had to do one of those dang synthetic stocks...

This one was also inletted, glass bedded, pillared, bondo'd, primed, painted, and recoil pad installed(not pictured).

A 1911 I recently finished:
Before:


Found this little surprise when I took off the rear sight. The sight was loose in the dovetail, so someone drilled and tapped the slide:


I filled the hole and then flat-topped the slide:



New grip safety installed:


Work List:
-New grip safety
-New ambi safety
-slide flat topped
-new sights installed
-lowered and flared ejection port
-polished then bead blasted and blued slide/assorted parts
-polished then bead blasted and parkerized frame

After:

Good stuff!! Keep it up!!!

Congrats, looking awesome.

I have also been working on a 1917 Enfield lately. It is chambered in .338 Win Mag. Ton of metal work, plus I am building a stock from the blank for this project.

Here it is when I got it:




First I made a plug to fill the "pond", then welded it in and welded the stripper clip guide area:


Stuck it on the mill and flattened it using a carbide end mill:


I also pushed back the left part of the action where the top of the rail meets the rear ring. I will do the rest of the shaping of this area by file:

Next I surface ground the rear ring to give it a nice radius:


You will also notice I pushed forward the area just behind the bolt stop, and also shortened the bolt stop to closely match a Mauser style:

I milled down the old tang and welded on a new piece of steel. Here is the end result/new tang:

Lets make some blocks for scope mounts. These will be finished at a later date:

Here is a pic of the blank, and a pic of the stock profile drawn out on it before taking it to the bandsaw:

You are a great inspiration to somebody getting started

BTW on the 1911 project please tell me 40 = A+ at your school ???

Great work. When you get done I've got a K98 Mauser action that I want to build something out of. Thinking about a .338-06 with a Mannlicher stock.

The school uses a GPA system. So that 4.0 you see is a A+.

LandPirate. Sounds good. I actually recently barreled up a Mauser to .338-06 for a teacher, no stock work though...Great caliber.

Didn't see the . the first go around, good work and keep it updating this if it's not to much trouble I love seeing projects progress like this.