In The Beginning: 

Here is a photo of the stock in the beginning. We laid out the wooden template on the stock and drew out the pattern to cut out of the stock.

Next step was to cut the stock down after we drew the pattern on the side of the stock.

Once all the cutting was done, then the stock is taking shape.

Next comes the flattening of the top of the stock in preparation for the barrel inletting.

        Here is one happy Apprentice.

Here is the finished product ready to have the barrel channel laid out for chiseling in the barrel channel.

Bill has inlet the barrel and is now inletting it into the breech area of the stock's wrist.

To do this, Bill blackens the end of the barrel with candle black and then seats the barrel into the channel. Here he is tapping the barrel into the stock. 

After the tapping the end of the barrel toward the wrist, it leaves a black mark on the vertical wall in the breech. Before removing the barrel, he looks to see how much more wood he must remove to make a flush and tight fit of the end of the barrel to the stock in the wrist.

Bill must remove the black marks one sliver at a time with a chisel. 

Once there is a full circle on the rear vertical wall, the inletting of the barrel is complete. 

Then the barrel is placed back into the stock and the excess wood above the barrel is filed down even to the top of the barrel.

Earlier we screwed in the breech plug and then draw filed the bottom flat of the breech plug even with the bottom flat of the barrel. Then we stamped two chisel marks "\ /" across the mating surfaces of the breech plug and the barrel to use as reference marks when we remove and reinstall the breech plug in the future. 

The next step is to mark out the area for the breech plug on the wrist of the stock and then inlet the barrel and breech plug.  We measured the depth of the plug which was 14/32" and then measured back from the end of the barrel this amount in two places and then drew a line perpendicular across the wrist.  Using a thin metal ruler, we aligned up with the edge of the one of the top barrel flats and drew an extended line perpendicular to the 14/32" line. We repeated this on the other side of the top flat. We will now chisel down a square hole to the depth of the barrel. Then we will start inletting the tang into the stock. 

Next we blackened the tang and slowly inlet the tang into the stock. Once inletted, Bill filed the wood and metal tang flush with the stock. 

Once the surfaces were flush, "whola" the tang is inletted.

Not bad don't you think? 

Now onto making the barrel tenons and pinning the barrel to the stock. 

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