Barrel inletting question

[L.B. Myers]

Hi All,

I have a basic question regarding inletting the barrel. I am currently building an Early Lancaster with a 54 cal.- 1

 

[Doc Arroyo]

I use candle black, and yes it is a mess. I can't see how you could do a section at a time. You have to know where all of the high spots are, since they all inter-relate. If you work a section at a time you could easily end up with an area too deep, or the wonderful teeter-tooter! :curse:

I have to remind y'all that we tend to put too much time into the inletting of the barrel. I have seen a number of originals with beautiful wood to metal fit at the edge of the stock to the barrel. Then pull the barrel, and find good fit at the breach. The rest of the barrel channel was roughed out with a 3/4" gouge! Brass nose cap covers the "poor" fit at the muzzle end. Keys hold tight, and the rifle shoots good, so I guess it ain't bad! eace:

 

[Slowpoke]

It's messy, but you should do the entire barrel. As for me, I "chuck" stock for straigh barrels in my milling machine and just run the entire lenght. For swamped barrel, they go straigh to Fred Miller.

SP