What's in the Shop This Week

To you and yours as well! All the best for '23.

I finally got around to installing this:
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Perfect fit! The laminate has been bedded with Atlasworx pillars and PR Precision bottom metal. Rock solid. Mags seat like factory and lock firmly in place, what an upgrade! This T3X is ready for the range. And the field.
 
Hey Folks, I've received a package containing 2 rifle bolts with no info and an illegible return address(sharpie smudged). If this sounds like you, hit me up so I'll know how to proceed!
Paul.
 
I'm afraid I haven't been good at taking pictures lately. The shop is busy!
Here's one job I got some pictures of though... A Carbon fiber stock: full inletting and hardware.



Some fancy pants tooling for composites, not cheap but sure works a treat!


I cant say this is my favorite job as its nasty stuff to work with. The vacuum helps but you're still wearing a respirator


Inletting for bottom metal...


I've also started making my own adjustable hardware as off the shelf options have been limited.
 
What's in the Shop This Week
Well we're doing it! I gave my notice in the new year and, as of this week, My wife and I are running this business full time!

More hours in the shop should make for more media content so we're going to try and have this thread as a weekly shop update.

This week has been one of transition; moving the rest of my tools and office equipment into the shop and making it "homelike". but I've also been making some chips...

Missed this Paul -Congratulations to you Guys . ;):cool: RJ
 
Hey Jim, yes the last year has flown by! It's definitely been a stretching experience for us, new challenges and lots of late nights to make things happen. It still feels very much a fragile/infantile business but I am happy to say, we've had a lot of favor and we're gaining traction every day and are having a lot of fun doing so!

Here are some recent fluting pictures to keep things interesting...




 
Big week for .30 at PC Precision. :)

Glad to see someone building a .300 H&H. Dad hunted the hell out of a pre-'64 model 70 in that caliber. Still have a soft spot in my heart for that long, elegant design.
 
PR COOK; would you be be able to re blue or cera cote a Winchester model 88?

Friend/co worker has one. Previous shop said they couldn’t do it after they had rifle for a few months.

On edit; got home on pooter and see you do such things. Will pass your info along to friend.
 
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Dan, Yes its pretty tough to beat a good 30cal. This particular 300H&H is headed to Zimbabwe for an Eland hunt.
It was pared up with a Ruger No1 and sported a quarter rib and one of my brakes.




There is something very elegant about a Holland and Holland chambering indeed...

I didn't do any wood work for this one so the owner would need to chime in with assembled pics should they choose.

Hifi, we must be corresponding via email, which project is yours? I've got several chambering jobs on deck at the moment.

Max Owner, Email is best as we can discuss particulars and attach files with ease. I do hot bluing, but refer my Cerakote work to BlackBox in Calgary. I've had excellent results from them and they are great to deal with.
 
I finally took some time to upload pictures of Darkalleydan's Rolling block project...

Made in 1874 this old girl has seen a lot of life. The goal of this project was to ensure she gets to see a lot more of life, while at the same time, honoring her past.


Turning the RKS .30cal blank in prep for a 1/2 octagon profile.


Hard to get and sort of pointless, but I've always found chamber pictures to be mesmerizing...


On the mill...


Off the mill...


Next up was stock work. Once again, we wanted to honour her past. As such, we refinished the original wood; Shortening the fore end, improving wood/metal fit and taking out many of the dents and dings.
Anything more was left as a testament to her past and reminder of her service.








One of the things we came across was exposing the cleaning rod hole when shortening the fore stock. The solution was to mill a dowel from the cut off portion and try and match the grain as best possible.




It's sort of cheating to use wood from the same stick but it does make for a good result.


Next up was metal finishing. We polished the hammer/breech block and trigger, Salt blued the barrel and larger pins/screws and flame blued the small screws. The receiver/buttplate were sent to Oskar Kob for CCH.


And finally, engraving, dovetails and holes for sights...


The final result? A trim, pretty little thing that points like a dream and, well lets just say I kind of hated to turn it over to Dan when he came to pick it up....






And once again, Mr Kob's contribution to the project is the undeniable show stopper!









I have to say, we are very fortunate to have access to a man with his skills and abilities here in Canada. I recommend his services unreservedly.
 
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