Different lock panels

[tallPercshooter]

The lock panels on this rifle are interesting. Instead of a gradual curve between the lock panel and the stock, builder did a sharp 90 degree cut. Seems like this might invite a big chip if bumped just right.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

YIKES

 

[Phil Coffins]

Fortunately there’s plenty of wood on that panel that could be removed to leave a radius and a narrower boarder.

 

[centershot]

Fortunately there’s plenty of wood on that panel that could be removed to leave a radius and a narrower boarder.

Yup-pir, that border's about wide enough to land a Messerscmitt on!

 

[Phil Coffins]

It should look more like this.
IMG_0523 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr

 

[rich pierce]

It’s just wrong

 

[deerstalkert]

yup! at least a half cord to much wood there! hard to learn the old saw, "take wood off until you think you have ruined it, then take off half again as much!"

 

[Pete G]

Very poorly done

 

[Davey Boy]

I fail the "find what is different in the picture test" and need help here. It looks perfectly fine to me.

 

[Secesh]

I would point to it for you but folks around here tend to get hung up on a saw-vine so…

 

[oldwood]

May not be perfect , but he did what he thought right. Better than some , maybe not perfection , I'll bet the gun shoots ok. Still remember a mistake on my first longrifle , but I learned from it.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I see many find excuses for this horrendous example. Why?

 

[rchas]

Pretty common mistake for a new builder working only from pictures to mess up lock panels

 

[Secesh]

I see many find excuses for this horrendous example. Why?

It is quite incorrect.

I think some folks feel like they may hurt someone’s feelings by calling out a mistake like that. Too many folks with thin skin get upset and hung in a saw-vine, like I said earlier, get their feelings hurt and get mad. Life is all about making mistakes and learning from those mistakes.

Anyone with the experience should see that it’s incorrect and no, I don’t see a logical reason for making excuses for it other than inexperience. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything.

 

[Brokennock]

Thats more than just, "a mistake."
A mistake is where you say, "whoops, I hope I can fix that." Like a small inletting gap or a chip, or a hole not drilled at the correct angle or in the wrong spot.
This example is poor research and worse workmanship.
I've seen worse in some ways, more poorly shaped, but there are no excuses for this abomination.

OP, are you going to tear it down and fix it?
Dare we ask to see the rest of the gun?

 

[Rawhide67]

Is that a Russ Hamm lock? Inietted into that slab of a side plate.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I think it's an L&R.

 

[rich pierce]

I cobbed up the lock panels on my first build. Thankfully Chuck Dixon didn’t say “looks right”. He said, “it’s hard to see how these are shaped from looking at flat black and white photos. Let’s look at this original over here to see how they shaped this area.” In many of Dave Person’s builds shared here he shows how to get the lock panels area shaped, followed by establishing beaver tails and so on.

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

Centershot,
Would that Messerschmitt be a 109, 110 or 262 ?

 

[ronaldrothb49]

Even the cheap kits where they don't take any of the excess wood off look better than that