On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Dean Hedin wrote:
>> My guess is that with that, you could
>> cut every groove the the checkering file will finish at 24 tpi if you
>> wanted to go that fine,
>
>No Gene, can't do it. Lord knows I've tried.
>Too much tear out occurs even with the tiniest of bits. The net result
> is lost diamonds.
>
>The best I have been able to achieve is every other checkering line.
> The picture I posted
>is a grid of every thrid line.
>
>It's not as bad as it seems. It takes about a half hour to fully
> checker the grip with
>the basic cross hatch done by the machine. Without the grid and done
>manually; hours...
>
Yes I know, been there, done that using the Dembart tools. But the effect
wasn't what I wanted at the end of the day, and there was enough meat in
the grip to take it back off, so I did, then threw about 18 coats of
clear epoxy on it.
That was in '65 & I'm still using it for a venison getter. But the epoxy
has seriously yellowed now and it does show the effects of probably 250k
miles laying across the transmission hump under my knees. Its a hunk of
1/8" thick all walnut laminated blank I had Reinhart-Fagen rough cut in
thumbhole style from a combination of two of their catalog patterns 45
years ago. With a rounded off P-17 action, 26" medium heavy Douglas
barrel, straightened bolt handle & a Timney trigger & speedlock kit,
30-06 Ackley Improved. The best ever of the wildcats. Brass lasts
forever. I own that reamer & have used it 3 times since I bought it from
the gunsmith who first used it on a barrel for me.
This Douglas barrel in it now is about an inch and a half barrel. The
old .311 bored 5 groove milspec barrel that was in it till the
later '70's was a three-quarter inch barrel, but it liked 65k psi loads
to do that so it was gone in 2000 rounds. Now this one is getting long
in the tooth too as it gets maybe 200 rounds a year yet between the range
and the occasional foray into the deer woods.
I only own one long gun that hasn't been given a new bed in a thumbhole
stock, a now elderly 22 rimfire. But its a tack driver/fly killer with
Winchester Super-X in it. Even my charcoal burners are in thumbhole
stocks. Except for the TC Omega I bought that way, and the 22,
everything else I carved from planks which were cut from green wood by
me. I've a couple of hunks of moderately plain maple about 10 years dry
to carve up yet if I don't fall over first. :=\
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
-- Leonard Brandwein
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