Wednesday, January 17, 2018

7mm-08 Project #3

Bottom Metal Clean Up
The bottom metal on the Remington 700 is aluminum and although it is completely functional I wanted to dress up this Rifle a little. So I bought a Mauser style bottom metal and saddle floor plate for this project. 
 I thought that the profile of the bow was a little chunky so I decided to trim it down a little. 
 First, I coated the bow in layout fluid (so I could see my scribe lines) and then scribed reference lines on the top and sides of the bow. 
 Then I filed to each line making a subtle radius on the bow. 
Here you can see the bow after filing and rough polishing. It is a subtle change but it softens up the lines of the bow a little. 
 I then turned my attention to the saddle floor plate. A few passes with sand paper reviled the the floor plate was not flat and had some machining marks left in it. These can be seen by the vertical lines in this picture. 
A little draw filing and some polishing with fine sandpaper and the surface is flat. Cleaning up these surfaces are subtle changes but if not done they will be really noticeable after the final polish and bluing. So it is worth taking the extra time to do them. 

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