Thanks stalker1,,,I'm kinda stuck on that 60's Weatherby style rifles and jeweled bolts for some reason. Old school cool I guess.
And actually that's my first attempt at a jeweled bolt. The old guy I borrowed the jig from said it came out perfect,, but it probably wouldn't have with out his sage advice and guidance I'm sure, he'd been a gun smith all his life and must be Damn near 90 by now. It's a quite simple process actually and it just takes some patience to do, especially if you have someone looking over your shoulder showing you the trick of it. Go slow and gentle and space the swirls even and that's about it. Pretty slow going but quite simple. You just need the ,,,Patience,, of Moses!!!!
That stock was seriously rough when I got the gun and it took some kinda work to bring that back around. But it was worth it after all was said and done, there was some pretty nice tiger tail wood grain hiding under the ugly brush marked flaking varnish and serious scratches that was on it. Looked like it had been done with a 4" barn brush,,,a worn out one at that !!!!! Very bubba-ed indeed ,,,when I got it. So much so,,I almost shit caned the stock.
I sorta had to diamond shape the fore end some to eliminate some deep gouges on one side, and under cut the roll over cheek rest more,,, it looked like it had slid a hell of a long ways down a rock ledge or something at one time, and it had deep rock scratches all down one side of the stock ,,1/8 " deep or better in some places, hence the more extreme than normal roll over on the cheek rest, and flat bottom diamond shaped fore arm. Feels good and that lightened it up some too.
I'm happy with it, and it shoots <1 MOA groups all day long. And I don't really have squat into it actually,a couple hundred bucks maybe sense I had the barrel and trigger ass'y already. Mostly the hot re-blueing,and finish reaming costs is about all I have into it dollar wise. Plus what little I had in the gun itself which was minimal, it was trading material when I got it. So maybe 250 -300 total in it.
I Love resurrecting old Springfields, Winchesters and Mausers, and mostly what I like to do up.