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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:17:49 PM EDT
Ok, I am in gunsmithing school (graduate in May) and this is my project rifle start to finish...I turn it in Monday....I will be adding to more lite-coats of finish to the wood before then
Mauser yugo K98 Re-barreled with a shilen blank (I countered to number 4 and chambered in .308, 21inches long) re-shaped and polished the metal by hand color case hardened receiver with a clear coat of Cerakote blued parts (bolt is partial blued) Bastonge wood stock (lots of mistakes) Fiberglass stock ( I like it) wood is glass bedded bolt handle was made by me on a lathe and welded on by me.. drilled and tapped with bases (leupold two piece) 3lb trigger with a single set of just under a pound (sweet) (NECG single set trigger) Dakota three position side swing safety what a year this has been In January I start my 1911(Caspian frame and slide) any questions 
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:20:03 PM EDT
[#1]
Wow!
That's a lot of pictures! 
Also, very nice work! |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:20:27 PM EDT
[#2]
Nice wood. What kind/where'd you get it?
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:22:27 PM EDT
[#3]
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Nice wood. What kind/where'd you get it? ED Shulen (Spelling) don't have the phone number handy |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:23:15 PM EDT
[#4]
Is it curly maple?
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:26:52 PM EDT
[#5]
TAG for later...
- Clint |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:27:02 PM EDT
[#6]
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Is it curly maple? Bastogne, a Claro walnut |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:30:34 PM EDT
[#7]
Wow! Very nice man!!
I need to break down all my milsurps and do some wood refinishing. I'd like to get a Bastogne wood stock for my '42 Garand. |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:34:23 PM EDT
[#8]
Very Nice!!
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:38:05 PM EDT
[#9]
I usually don’t like to see military rifles sporterized.
But it’s a common post war Yugoslavian rifle and not an irreplaceable war relic. And, it looks to me like you did a great job. So I’ll make an exception. Dang nice work. A deer ought to be proud to be shot by that rifle. |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:39:05 PM EDT
[#10]
sure is pretty!
hell, id let you shoot at me with it. just give me a head start, cause your kinda missing a scope! anyways, thats kick ass. congrats. |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:40:44 PM EDT
[#11]
Very nice!! No rotary marks, now!!
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:42:13 PM EDT
[#12]
Gorgeous
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:43:20 PM EDT
[#13]
I'm gonna case color my 1919.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:44:23 PM EDT
[#14]
Very Nice
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:44:34 PM EDT
[#15]
Nice, wish I could do something like that.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:44:56 PM EDT
[#16]
Excellent job man. Love the color case.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:45:51 PM EDT
[#17]
Wow! That is a gorgeous rifle. Great work!
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:48:29 PM EDT
[#18]
Wow amazing. Very good work.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:50:07 PM EDT
[#19]
That's awesome work, man. You should be proud of it.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:52:01 PM EDT
[#20]
Nice work, still don't want to get shot by it though.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:52:47 PM EDT
[#21]
Nice Job....I always wanted a cusom Rifle built around a 98 Action...
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:55:28 PM EDT
[#22]
I cant believe you Bubbaized that wonderful old K98
I am only kidding I think it is wonderful but its coming |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:57:32 PM EDT
[#23]
Wow! Let me be yet another person to tell you that you did an incredible job!
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Posted: 12/5/2008 5:59:31 PM EDT
[#24]
Very nice. I've always wanted to do something like that.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:05:36 PM EDT
[#25]
Nice work. I have a project in mind myself, but considering the prices of what I want to use as host rifles(Enfield) it'll be quite a while.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:07:06 PM EDT
[#26]
Thank you for the replies
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:08:21 PM EDT
[#27]
Great job, you going to jewel the bolt?
 Love the look of the crown. 
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:10:12 PM EDT
[#28]
Very nice work. Well done. Hope you succeed in your new career.
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:12:38 PM EDT
[#29]
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Great job, you going to jewel the bolt?  I was going to and I still might but deadlines for getting it done are here...and next semester I will on the 1911...so maybe after I graduate I will come back and do it.... 3 to 4 hours of boring spinning |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:13:13 PM EDT
[#30]
Nice, what did you use to finish the wood? Tru-oil? I like the look it has. Nice looking figure in the wood also. What did you do to get that color on the bolt release? Heat? except it doesn't look like a color you would get from heat. I need to start working on mine, just need sanding and finish.
ETA: I like the shadow line, not a fan of it on my rifles but I do like how they look. Maybe i'll put one on my Montana build I'm working on, when I get access to a lathe with a stead rest again. |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:14:09 PM EDT
[#31]
Looks sweet! Totally envious right now!
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:18:05 PM EDT
[#32]
Quoted:
Nice, what did you use to finish the wood? Tru-oil? I like the look it has. Nice looking figure in the wood also. What did you do to get that color on the bolt release? Heat? except it doesn't look like a color you would get from heat. I need to start working on mine, just need sanding and finish. true oil with a little liquid rit dye (yellow) I caustic blued the ejector box and spring together and the spring did not take a blue even after I shocked it a few times but with the color all together I thought it looked nice so I left it bad metal to get a red tinge probable just like the bottom metal it is two tone because of bad metal but yet it looks good with the wood |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:18:10 PM EDT
[#33]
I only wish you were as good at taking pictures as you are at building rifles....
Gunsmithing school is something I'd really love to do... |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:20:45 PM EDT
[#34]
Nice.
Bust out the checkering tools. 
Here are some of my old stockmaking tools from gunsmithing school some 17 years ago. 
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:21:38 PM EDT
[#35]
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I only wish you were as good at taking pictures as you are at building rifles.... well I had to go to school for the rifle ability so I guess a photography class is in order
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:26:33 PM EDT
[#36]
Cool! Can't even see the Dremel marks!
Looks great, especially the case hardened look. The mounts could use some work....looking at cheap factory deburred-by-tumbling mounts next to that level of worksmanship is, well, underwhelming. |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:29:30 PM EDT
[#37]
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Cool! Can't even see the Dremel marks! Looks great, especially the case hardened look. The mounts could use some work....looking at cheap factory deburred-by-tumbling mounts next to that level of worksmanship is, well, underwhelming. the dremmel was for other things not this gun.....well I have not had time to make my own bases yet...I might next semester.....but for the grade they are a requirement to be installed.... |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:31:12 PM EDT
[#38]
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Nice. Bust out the checkering tools.
Here are some of my old stockmaking tools from gunsmithing school some 17 years ago. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/innocent_bystander/stocktools-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/innocent_bystander/stocktools-2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/innocent_bystander/stocktools-3.jpg my checkering work needs just that a lot of work....so i do not know if I will ever checker this rifle maybe one of my later stocks..... |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:32:35 PM EDT
[#39]
very nice job indeed, the color case hardening turned out exceptionally well
i am jealous 
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:33:49 PM EDT
[#40]
Quoted:
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Nice, what did you use to finish the wood? Tru-oil? I like the look it has. Nice looking figure in the wood also. What did you do to get that color on the bolt release? Heat? except it doesn't look like a color you would get from heat. I need to start working on mine, just need sanding and finish. true oil with a little liquid rit dye (yellow) I caustic blued the ejector box and spring together and the spring did not take a blue even after I shocked it a few times but with the color all together I thought it looked nice so I left it bad metal to get a red tinge probable just like the bottom metal it is two tone because of bad metal but yet it looks good with the wood I knew it was tru-oil, I am good 
I was thinking it was just the different type of metal reacting to the bluing process differently. You never can tell what color something will turn. We even had a couple parts come out with a slight green in it. Turns out people ruined the tank my using welding rod to hang parts and the coating on the welding rod effected the tank. I also got a color similar to that by dipping a cast reciever into the tank for 5-10 seconds at a time then shock in the rinse water. Did that a could times and it came out nice, after coloring it with the torch. 
ETA: How high did you polish the barrel, can't really tell from the pics? |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:34:26 PM EDT
[#41]
Good work Burn i went To TSJC when Ed Shulen was the stockmarking instructor.
He had a fit when I took a die grinder with a big round burr to one of my stocks that I made by hand (in his class to )glass bed it for another class. 
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:36:17 PM EDT
[#42]
Sweet!
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:38:55 PM EDT
[#43]
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Nice, what did you use to finish the wood? Tru-oil? I like the look it has. Nice looking figure in the wood also. What did you do to get that color on the bolt release? Heat? except it doesn't look like a color you would get from heat. I need to start working on mine, just need sanding and finish. true oil with a little liquid rit dye (yellow) I caustic blued the ejector box and spring together and the spring did not take a blue even after I shocked it a few times but with the color all together I thought it looked nice so I left it bad metal to get a red tinge probable just like the bottom metal it is two tone because of bad metal but yet it looks good with the wood I knew it was tru-oil, I am good
I was thinking it was just the different type of metal reacting to the bluing process differently. You never can tell what color something will turn. We even had a couple parts come out with a slight green in it. Turns out people ruined the tank my using welding rod to hang parts and the coating on the welding rod effected the tank. I also got a color similar to that by dipping a cast reciever into the tank for 5-10 seconds at a time then shock in the rinse water. Did that a could times and it came out nice, after coloring it with the torch. http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/magurgle/arfcom/stockmaking/CIMG1230.jpg I like that metal color...... Quoted:
Good work Burn i went To TSJC when Ed Shulen was the stockmarking instructor. He had a fit when I took a die grinder with a big round burr to one of my stocks that I made by hand (in his class to )glass bed it for another class. dremmels and grinders makes one of our instructors cringe...
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:41:21 PM EDT
[#44]
Looks great......very good Job.....Congrads
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Posted: 12/5/2008 6:52:17 PM EDT
[#45]
A nicely done Mauser sporter is a thing of beauty.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 4:36:29 AM EDT
[#46]
good morning
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:02:49 AM EDT
[#47]
Beautiful.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:07:36 AM EDT
[#48]
It turned out very sharp looking. You definitely have some talent.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:10:41 AM EDT
[#49]
Niiiiiice.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:12:13 AM EDT
[#50]
Very, very nice rifle.
Excellent work. |
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