Really struggled to find the time for any gunsmiths work but the sun stayed out for two afternoons on the trot so i worked on other projects all day then thought id enjoy the sun, radio and some checkering. The pictures are pretty bad, the phone camera does a poor job for macro work.
I have cut to full depth which i prefer for guns I'm going to use in a few years it will dull out. Sometimes its not always easy to get all of the spacing perfect it usually depends on how badly cut it was first time around but it came out pretty well, on the right hand side i had one line which ran out which annoyed me but my spacing must have flared a bit at the end of the line at some point. I did end up picking out the cross over at 32 lines per inch, the wood is actually dense enough to just about take this spacing but its looks better for being just refreshed a little, i didn't even attempt to photograph it with the phone camera...
You will notice in the pictures i have reinstated the black line around the repair a little more, I think the repairs good enough now.
I shot the gun at clays the other day and shot very pleasingly with it, Left to do is give that top lever spring some proper attention either by just annealing it and peaning it out to a better fit in the dove tail and re tempering it or by making a new slightly heavier one, refinish the stock, and re brown the barrels, i may just tighten it up a little bit as well.
Progress is slow but sure.
