Wooden Under Rib

[silhouette4570]

How is a wood under rib secured to a round barreled, halfstock shotgun? I've never seen one in the flesh, only photos on the web. I'm thinking of trying it, and my best guess is soldering on underlugs which are small enough to inlet flush into the rib and pin it to the barrel. My guess on the ramrod pipes is to inlet them into the rib as usual and pin them. Although the barrel I have is meaty, dove tails are out of the question and I'm sure any attempt to drill and tap the barrel would leave dimples in the bore, at best.

Wood under ribs sound like a cheap way to go, and and maybe it was cheaper, but some of the guns I've seen on the web appear to have been pretty fair guns in their day. Maybe the wood was a way to save weight. I've seen photos of wood ribs on full round and octagon to round barreled guns.

Jack

 

[Roy]

You pretty much have it right.. I did one for a straight tapered oct barrel.. it was more work than a metal rib. It seemed that it took a lot of pins to hold it on. Someone sells hollow metal ribs, I can't remember where I saw them... but that is the way that I will do one next time...

 

[rabjr]

It was done on New England style guns quite a bit. Your right in thinking of inletting a lug and pinning it. I had this done on my N.E Squirrel rifle you can see here.
http://www.nimrodsplace.com/nesquirrelrifle1.html

 

[hoochiepapa]

Roy does nice work, eh?
I could swear that while I was looking at your pics I could smell stock finish!! :shocked2: I haven't been using any!! :shocked2:

 

[rabjr]

I waana tell ya, that is one sweet little gun that came out beyond my expectations. He just seems to know how to bring my dreams to life. :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[Roy]

I figured it out...Swampy likes to to hear me cuss a good bit :haha:

 

[necchi]

There's another way to install underlugs rather than dovetails, it's called "Stakeing" or "Stapleing".
Click on the tools to read the "how-too"; http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartList.aspx?catID=15&subID=87&styleID=322

 

[Metalshaper]

On my DS underhammer, I installed a wood rib.
made a few lil 'T' shaped steel lugs and set them
head side down in the barrel.< lengthwise with the flat > Peened the in, to hold them, and then fit the rib piece over them. worked out real nice I thought?

Respect Always
Metalshaper