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Toe Plate and Side Plate Created and Installed:

Found a piece of 3/32" sheet brass and drew out a toe plate to cut out. Made the plate an 1/8" wider on each side of the stock so when inletted, there would still be brass sticking out to be filed off. 2006-12-21 017.JPG (127480 bytes)

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Drilled 2 holes into the plate and screwed it to the stock with two #4 screws to hold it for inlaying into the stock. 2006-12-21 025.JPG (162460 bytes) 2006-12-21 026.JPG (162151 bytes)

The end of the butt plate was peened over onto the toeplate, then lines were drawn down the sides to the trigger guard area. The lines are 1/16" outside of the rear trigger guard inlet and to the outside edges of the butt plate heel. 

Here is the finished product: Toe Plate TS.JPG (173751 bytes)

Side Plate Project:

The side plate was copied off an original Grandstaff rifle stock. Some one in the past tried to restore it hap-hazardously earlier.  However, I was able to capture the design of the side plate for this rifle. 2006-12-21 021.JPG (211271 bytes)2006-12-21 024.JPG (225319 bytes)

Since the original was a right handed gun, the pattern was reversed for a left handed gun.

 

 

The pattern was cut out and drilled to aid in removing as much of the brass as possible to speed up the shaping of the side plate. 

 

2006-12-21 027.JPG (216272 bytes)Here the side plate is cut out and laid onto the stock.2006-12-21 028.JPG (194080 bytes)

 

 

 

 

 

The forward hole was located and drilled in the side plate. With both bolts in place, the side plate was then inlet into the stock. 2006-12-21 031.JPG (259134 bytes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple photos showing the process steps. 

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Here is the finished product with the side plate inletted: Side Plate TS.JPG (227401 bytes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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