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Okay, well i am currently rying to rough out a stock for my homemade musket and have been told that the best bet for inletting the barrel channel is a stock scraper ( i cannot run a router because i am on genertaor power) and i did a quick search but couldnt find any pics decent enough to be ale to recreate the tool, so does anyone have any pics of their stock scrapers? and could you enlighten me as to the geometry of the cutting edge, is it a flat 90 degrees with a bur like a cabinet scraper? or is angled in some way?
 
Brownells has one that is essentially a set of hardened washers on an axle and this is dragged through the channel. I'm told it works much better than I'd predict.

I have inletted round barrel channels and ramrod grooves almost entirely with gouges. I don't have a plane but am modifying one for me next project (a 54" round barrel). For now I have a set of round-ended flat chisels that are very thin. Think of the end of a butter knife, but sharp. After laying out the lines for the barrel inlet, I pick one that is the right diameter and drive it straight down into the channel every couple of inches, using a mallet. Then I come along with the gouge that is under barrel diameter and hog out down to the bottom of the stabs. I repeat this until I get a good fairly smooth groove under barrel diameter and nearly the full required depth established. Then I start inletting with black and using a larger diameter gouge and eventually some angled scrapers and bent half-round cabinet files.
 
Thanks for the info pierce, your stabbing method sounds like its quite effective, sounds like i'll have to make some gouges and chisels like you said as well as a stock scraper, i think i found the one your talking about it has a funny curved axle with handles on oth sides and around 9 or 10 washer looking dealies? i was just wondering if these were sharpened like a chisel or like cabinet scrapers, but from the looks of it, is the latter.
 
On the "washer tool" each washer is simply flat, not with a raised bur.

I use a piece of 3/16" to 5/16" drill rod 6-8" long to make my stabbers, depending on the radius I want. I heat the rod to orange and forge it, flaring out the end until I have a nice flat spatula end on the drill rod. I make sure the cutting edge is perfectly aligned with one side of the shaft. Then I file the end to a rounded profile, matching it to a circle traced on paper. I file it sharp at a very fine angle (about 22 degrees) then harden by heating to orange, quenching in transmission fluid and temper to straw/purple. Then I put a good handle on it made from a scrap piece of hardwood, sharpen it and it is ready for years of good service and cost maybe a buck or two.

One of these tools bent into a dogleg can be filed to perfectly fit the nose of most lock inlets and makes leveling that part of the inlet a breeze. A small one will work for the nose end of the mainspring inlet too.
 
I posted an article Scrapers For Octagon Barrels on 2-14-08 Do a search I think you may find it but I don,t know a lot about computers A cabinet scraper burr won,t last to long going cross grain.

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