new project

[SAC22PPC]

ok starting a new project. so far its shaping up as this;
gew98 1916 obe reciever, drill/tapped, turned the ring and lapped the inner ring(god i love owning a lathe!) will lap in the bolt lugs.
handpicked componets from a bunch i got from century a few months ago. not the best parts but am hoping they clean up well.
susposed to get in a 308 heavy shilen 24" barrel...been taking a while so am wondering if its coming in or not...
it will have a bold trigger and leupold one peice base.

dont know what i am going to do for a stock just yet. may buy one may make one. my brother is buying a sawmill so i will have ready access to custom cut wood mostly maple. have told him i need a plank 3 1/2" thick, this will be used for a bench stock.
i have been thinking on a really custom stock which would have a maple core, walnut sides on the forend for the beavertail, and then a walnut adjustable comb. might look kind of cool. since i have the lathe i can make many if not all of the hardwear for the adjustable comb...that will be really cool folks making parts used in your own rifle!

i do need to find someone nearby who has a saw that can make the rough cuts to the outside of the stock so i can then go in with a rasp and do the shaping. i hate working with curves as i drives me nuts but hey what am i going to do?

how does it sound so far?


0] SAC22PPC 0]

[WmRoy]

Keep us posted! You are much braver than I am I wouldn't even try to shape my own stock..............:xxrotflmao:

Good Luck!:D

[SAC22PPC]

hey when you have zero $ left what else are you going to do?

over night i worked on the floorplate...yaa over night! i want it to be really nice but all of the ones i have have tiny micro pits along with what apears to be very old file marks. so i sat and honed it on a stone for hours...and hours...still there were areas that i was not getting down to so i just went ahead and polished it from there. not as nice as i wanted but it should be ok. the triggerguard around the front screw that tang there was beaten pretty bad. i worked it down with my bench file and then the stone. not so bad after a bit more stoning and then polishing that should be cool. also had to fit the floorplate to the triggerguard. since i have had to do this many times already i knew just where to put the needle file to work. one last thing i added a very small hidden custom touch to it that only a mauser expert will ever notice. hehehehe

oh which do you guys think will be the harder reciever the gew 1916 or a 98/22?
i ask because this gew seemed soft when i tapped the holes. the bolt lug points are fine but it just seemed soft.


0] SAC22PPC 0]

[DOGolden]

Well, you could call the shipper and ask them where your barrel is {don't forget to get the tracking number & verify it yourself}.

.308 heavy barrel? Sounds like a tack driver. I too would never try and shape my own stock, even with zero funds. The end result {on my end} would look like something a child did.

1916 or 98/22 reciever? :dontknow: Your call dude because you are the one looking at them amigo {do the 98/22}. :eek:

[txpete]

wow your the man.nothing better than building it with your own hands.good luck on your project.
pete

[SAC22PPC]

well i drilled/tapped the 98/22 receiver and it is indeed the harder one so i will be using it for this project. only think is its got some minor pitting under the wood line around the ring...i want this thing to look good but you can do only so much right.
worked on the triggergaurd, got to bow to look good however on the sides of it there were some dents. so after some thinking on it i clamped it down and broke out the old file. i ended up giving it a tapered shape smaller in back larger in front. accually came out pretty good! my polishing wheel needed a trimming and it got that when i polished the sharp corners of the bow. the floor plate is not as good as i would like but it is way way better looking than when i started. next step is to go to work on the reciever, turn outer ring and lap inner ring, then make a new lap for the bolt face and finally lap in the lugs. sometime next week i will get the barrels shoulders matched to the recievers rings, and see if i can get the surface worked down so its not so rough.
looking good so far folks!


0] SAC22PPC 0]

[SAC22PPC]

ok cleaned up the 98/22 reciever a little...navel jelly and brushing to get the rust out of the pitting. then moved onto lapping the inner ring followed by turning the outer ring. i knew i have just a tiny bit of metal to play with to save the costs of having the barrel shoulders matched to the reciever. i hit it just about head on as close as its going to get! saved $15 right there folks! god i love owning a lathe even if it is a mini lathe.
next on the list is to lap the bolt face, lap lugs, polish the receiver, polish the barrel, assemble barrel onto reciever and then cold blue everything. after that use the local shops 308 reamer. then bubba a 92/22 stock for a test bed and see how it shoots before i get or make a proper stock for it...oh yaa the durn bolt handle!!! got to turn that sometime soon.
i love the metal working but the wood working i dont care for.


0] SAC22PPC 0]

[SAC22PPC]

anyone want to hear more?


0] SAC22PPC 0]

[Rustybore]

Keep it coming. How about the pictures?

Kevin in Or.

[WmRoy]

Keep it coming. How about the pictures?

Kevin in Or.
Ditto..............:grinning-thumbsup:

[SAC22PPC]

sorry no camera....hence no pics.
i will paste what i wrote on another forum it goes pretty far into depth on this project.
something has come up over night and i may not be posting much for a little while so pleas bare with me.
here is what i posted on another forum.

couple of weeks ago i started a new project gun.
another 308 heavy barrel on a m98 mauser.

started to go with a gew98 reciever however when i tapped the holes i found that it was just a bit soft...never had to back the tap out, just turn it right on through! so i checked the other reciever i have a 98/22. that one i did have to back the tap out on so i know its harder than the gew. the pitty is that i love the tool marks on the gew, you can see many of the milling machine marks in the mag cutout and else where. for a guy who likes fine machine work trust me its a trip!

ok so the 98/22 has some pitting under and around the stock line, the gew had zero pitting....oh well just one of those things what are you going to do? ok so i picked some of the rust out of the larger pits then burned the rest with naval jelly. looking good after i brushed it on the ginder.
next came the barrel, shilen heavy chrome moly 308 short chambered. it was sanded to i think a 200 grit, not good for me as i like the metal to look like black glass. all i had at that time was some 240grit paper along with my one polishing wheel and compound that true value carries. well after a day and a half i got it to look pretty good. lots of sanding and way lots of polishing. man i dont want to go through that again! after the machine polishing was done i was sitting here with the polishing rag(aka shop towel loaded with a ton of compound) rubbing the thing up and down for hours sitting here reading the forums. can we say elbow grease?
next came to accurize the reciever. my original inner tourque ring lapping tool had more slop in it than i wanted so i made a new one. ok got that made then i made a bolt face lapping tool that came out perfectly by the way! lap the inner ring took way longer than i expected, good sign that the metal is harder than the gews. next i turned the outer ring. now i had already taken the messurments of the barrels shoulders and found that i had to fudge a little to get the barrel to mate to the reciever perfectly. i forget the exact number but it was like .002 or .003". if i could turn my reciver and get it right then i would not have to take the barrel to a machine shop and have it done there(i have a mini-lathe remember). turns out i hit her right on the button! when i mounted the reciever to the barrel she just stopped i would have been lucky if i got 1/16th turn on it. so far this is the best mating of barrel to reciever i have done yet.
OOPS almost forgot! before lapping the bolt face i lapped the lugs in...the first bolt i tried was a turk and it never did take even after 3 HOURS! so i said heck i got a turk that has a very nice gew bolt...hmmmm maybe the turk should have a turk bolt! so after 30minutes of lapping the gew bolt was a perfect match to the 98/22 reciever. then i lapped the face and mounted the barrel.
next i had to set the headspacing...first time for me. the local shop let me use their brand new 308 finish reamer and headspacing guages. made a reamer extention...took quite a while since i wanted it to perfectly mate to the reamer without any wobble. in the end you can just barely slide the reamer into it!. an 8-32 set screw holds the reamer tight and i turned the far end so my tap handle could grab onto it. i had a little bit of chatter with the reamer but all worked out fine. head space with a loaded round has just a tad bit of drag on the bolt!

[SAC22PPC]

so now i wanted to hear her sing! took my old poorly arsenal repaired 98/22 stock and dremeled out the barrel chanel until the barreled reciever would fit. could not use my sporterized triggerguard (more on that later) so i just used a spare that would fit. no floorplate or mag parts just the triggerguard. fired it twice and it went boom out the far end and not the close end of the gun. one problem....the shilen chamber reamer left some groves in the chamber and it was just a tad bigger around than the reamer i used...so about 1/3rd of the shell has some marks in it from the chamber right over the webbing area...oh well cant have everything go right. the chamber is safe and round as i checked the shells over very well. its just bigger around near the breach and a little rougher near the breach than i would have liked.
i was hoping to blue it with some perma blue i had...i had it but it evaporated away on me! so i went to the only other blue i had which is the g96 liquid and g96 paste. used up the very last of the liquid and had to work with the paste. i had trouble with the paste on a reciever once and was more than a little wary of it however on this gun it seems to have turned out fine. showed it to the local shop owner and he thought i had it hot blued!

still in the works is a stock need to find an affordable bench/varmint stock wood or laminate, and i need to have the bolt handle done.
after those two things its mount scope and see what she does!


SAC22PPC
will follow up on the sportered triggerguard later.