first mistake

[jim/wa]

building a pistol out of walnut went to drill a 1/16 hole for ramrod ferrule it was off so i plugged it with a sliver ofwalnut and sanded it flush is there other ways to hide this mistake or is it always visible it is my first project at building and i dont want tobe discouraged cheer me up

 

[ffffg]

get a cheap drill press from harbor freight or pawn shop, and a drill press vice large enough for 1/2 inch blocks of wood and stock and barrel.. measure four times and drill once.. when you do the barrel pins clamp vice down where
it hits pin exactly where you want it with barrel on fixed end of vice under pressure without stock.. .. then put stock properly mounted below on movable jaw and clamp it together and drill bit will go exactly where you clamped vice..make sure gun is square so hole is strait. the tiny 1/16 patch will be unnoticible when you fall down one day with the gun a put a 2 inch scratch in the stock, :hmm: you have t build a gun to find out 3/4 of the pitfalls.. the other 1/4 will be on the next.. .. dave..

 

[davy]

get a cheap drill press from harbor freight or pawn shop, and a drill press vice large enough for 1/2 inch blocks of wood and stock and barrel.. measure four times and drill once.. when you do the barrel pins clamp vice down where
it hits pin exactly where you want it with barrel on fixed end of vice under pressure without stock.. .. then put stock properly mounted below on movable jaw and clamp it together and drill bit will go exactly where you clamped vice..make sure gun is square so hole is strait. the tiny 1/16 patch will be unnoticible when you fall down one day with the gun a put a 2 inch scratch in the stock, :hmm: you have t build a gun to find out 3/4 of the pitfalls.. the other 1/4 will be on the next.. .. dave..

I would add to use a rigid center drill to set up the hole first to keep from wandering, then use std drill to finish it with.
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Davy

 

[spitfire]

As my Instructor @ PCC Gunsmithing school would say "its not a mistake if you can fix it".I quess it not the destination, but the journey itself.Skill comes with time. :v

 

[CrackStock]

If you stain it dark, it will likely never be noticed.

If this bothers you, you could always just put a pin in it; brown the end of the pin and let everyone wonder what the pin is holding!

CS

 

[mccoy]

I did the same thing on my 1st gun 22 years ago. It bothered me at the time, but over the years I've found that it's kinda' neat to see how far I've come. Now i find new things to mess up on new rifles.... Seriously, your repair sounds fine. The "flaw" is character. My "peg" gun has 9 deer to her credit. You may have found a name for her during your repair....

 

[George F.]

I have always had a slight problem drilling pin holes. Tried the fence thing on the drill press. Tried drilling them like last by hand freehand with a dremel tool. Then I tried the drill press thing in a cross feed vise while the rifle was still in the "square". For some reason I drilled a hole just alittle and was interupted. When I went back to it I didn't want to bugger up the hole so I had a small piece of 1/16" aluminum scrap around, so I drilled a hole through that then continued drilling the hole while holding the aluminum with my finger. It seemed to eliminate the deflection of the small 1/16" drill bit. And haven't had the problems like I use to. Thought I'd pass it along. ........George F.