Octagon Barrel Scraper

[wirewiz]

A few weeks ago someone asked about a scraper to inlet octagon barrels. It took me a while to find this homemade tool in my old Muzzle Blasts. I wish I had this scraper back in ’62 when I made my flinter. I hacksawed that scraper from a WWII machete. This tool is adjustable and can be used for different sized barrels. Just hog out the bulk with some box bits on the router table or with a fence and scrape the rest. I’ll bet you could get the whole thing done in a few hours instead of the few weeks it took me back then.
I’m posting another shop tool that you can build yourself. It’ll really come in handy.

 

[wirewiz]

 

[Stophel]

Be VERY careful when trying to scrape (or plane) out your barrel channel in curly wood. You can very easily knock out big hunks of curl on the sides. :wink:

 

[Birddog6]

I have made several cutters like you plans suggest, but have had little luck with them on curtly maple. Perhaps if the wood were not curly & just a plain straight grain it would work but for me it hung up on every curl on all sides & there was just no way you could pull it thru. Go the other eay & it hangs on curls the other way. Thus I resorted back to scrapping out the way I did before, on flat at a time to get the barrels where I need them to lay. :hmm: Now a blade on a rotary cutter where it spun fast like a dado blade on a saw or shaper would work for this. :hmm:

 

[kansas_volunteer]

Brownells offers octagon barrel inletting scrapers, or bedding tools, in various sizes.

 

[Roy]

I make them out of old files. I like the idea of the one above though... just wouldn't work on all types of wood.