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Whoppee..Shaping and sanding of the stock is done...will start applying finish in the morning.

How fine do you sand the stock?what do you use to stain and finish it ? You are moving right along

320 then using a linseed oil finish I sand in to fill the pores. Final finishing is with 400 and 600 until your tired and just done.
Finishing can be done in a thousand ways and procedures. All are good and pretty much personnel preference. Books have been written on the subject.
To each his own on this part.

Finished the stock and now waiting for checkering. Slow as it is I am nearing the finish line.

Looks quite nice.

Nicely done. I especially like the fluting of the comb nose & the relationship of the comb nose to the centerline of the grip. Somethings that are not always done well. I'm anxious to see it checkered.

Maybe a little update is in order. The project is still progressing. The biggest thing is I am waiting on the checkering to be completed. I do not checker so I have commissioned that to be completed. I can't give a timeline and I am not going to ask. They will complete I am sure in due time.
However while waiting I have worked on three areas. First I decided to make a new barrel wrench that included a flip out screw driver blade that can be used to remove the forend screw and the barrel retainer screw. (It then stores in the stock under the trapdoor buttplate). Here are a couple pics. It still needs polishing and press fitting the pin:

I also re-thought the function of the enbloc clip retainer. Normally when the last round is loaded from the clip it falls out the bottom and basically lost. I wanted to change that so that the clip only fell part way out waiting for the user to remove it. In my first design (shown in earlier posts) I used a small spring which was not very robust. The new design is held closed and locked up by the standard clip release button piece. So now you use this button to either remove a loaded or empty clip. Actually works very nice. Here again are a couple pics:

The third area has been to refine the feed of the larger 7x57R cartridges which are larger then the original 6.5x53R cartridge. To anyone who has ever done similar type work they know this is involved work spending many hours to determine just what has to be done and then doing it. I have mine working and now just need the stock back so I can test the feed in the final form and insure that it works as good as possible. (FYI a Mauser 98 of M70 are way easier. Probably why the Dutch action was replaced by improved designs over the years like the M98 and M70 and others

You inspired me to start back to work on a project I set aside for quite a while.

Do you need a camera so you can start showing some pictures of your work? Hope you are well Mark.

Thanks I'm fine just bumps in the road