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Toe Plate Made & Installed: 

I designed the toe plate to resemble the Isaac Haines with a couple modifications.

First step was to cut out the plate. Then the edges were filed down to the lines.

A center line was drawn on the stock and the plate. The plate was aligned with the line and a 1/16" hole was drilled where the screw will pass thru. Note, the buttplate was also installed. This was necessary since the plate will slightly overlap the toe of the buttplate. The plate was held in position and I drilled a 1/16" hole thru the pilot hole in the plate into the stock.  Then the hole was widened to allow passage of the screw body thru the plate. The butt plate was removed then the plate was screwed to the stock.  This allowed me to start inletting the plate into the stock.

Once the plate was inletted, the buttplate was reinstalled. Using a "SAFE" file, I filed horizontally into the buttplate. The depth into the buttplate was determined by the length of the toeplate. 

(Sorry about the fuzzy photo - new camera, eh?)

Now the exposed edge of the buttplate was peened over the edge of the toeplate. When done, using files the edges were reduced to the width of the stock and the peened area was flattened.

Now  the plate is finished.