Reccomendations for a recoil pad jig??

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I appear to be doing a lot of new recoil pads and I am getting nervous when I try to shape them while mounted on the rifle like I have done for years - getting older I guess.
I use either a bench mounted belt sander or bench disk sander.

I looked at the various jigs in the Brownells book -- anyone have experience with one of these 3 or 4 jigs?? Is one way better then the other?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.
 
Installing Recoil Pads

Hi Farshot
Over the years I have used types of jigs & fixtures but I keep comeing back to the B-Square type , At App School in the UK one of the first tools you made was a recoil instalation tool witch is very simillar to the B-Square & very simple to use, Hope this Helps
 
Well I tried about 10 different attempts to embed this video but no luck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4Y...=firefox-a&emb=0&aq=f&feature=player_embedded

Here's what the b-square looks like,
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ok figured it out...
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I've been using the B&R jig from Brownells for a long time. I have found it completely satisfactory but I can't say whether it's any better or worse than the B-Square style.
The reason I chose that model is that the toe and the heel are ground without any need to adjust the setup.
 
Only problem with the B Square jig is that you must have through holes and often we don't want this. The Gunsmithertools version is more universal if you use your imagination. I bought one to try and they are a bit roughly made although the basic idea is good so we made a bunch for our own use so we can leave a pair set up for a particular stock model, one each at the top and bottom angles.

I did a lot with the hanging jig but setup is a bit fussy to get all the angles correct and much prefer the other.
 
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