Col. Batguano
75 Cal.
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It's not a big deal if you break through to the RR channel. Yeah, it's nice if you don't, but they're covered with the RR most all the time anyway.
I would caution you not to feather in the edges of the forestock to meet the barrel until right before you either have to carve them (most people just use an incised groove if they are going to do anything), or are getting the whole thing ready for whiskering and staining. When they are feathered in to their final thickness of 1/16" or less, there isn't much wood there, and it gets pretty fragile. Go ahead and do the lower part, (coming in to the RR channel) but there too, don't quite take the bottom part down to the near knife edge it's going to have at the very end.
It's just so easy to bonk the stock, or grab it the wrong way and damage it. Believe it or not, the varnish coats DO indeed add some stiffness to the whole thing. Same thing with the RR, and all the metal that's going in there too.
I would caution you not to feather in the edges of the forestock to meet the barrel until right before you either have to carve them (most people just use an incised groove if they are going to do anything), or are getting the whole thing ready for whiskering and staining. When they are feathered in to their final thickness of 1/16" or less, there isn't much wood there, and it gets pretty fragile. Go ahead and do the lower part, (coming in to the RR channel) but there too, don't quite take the bottom part down to the near knife edge it's going to have at the very end.
It's just so easy to bonk the stock, or grab it the wrong way and damage it. Believe it or not, the varnish coats DO indeed add some stiffness to the whole thing. Same thing with the RR, and all the metal that's going in there too.
