BSA Mk1* Sporting rifle (build)

After the butt stock was fully shaped and ready for sanding from the rough 80 grit, I filed the initial groove round the edge of the grip cap and started to round off the top edge but still a few hours left in that yet. With the trigger guard fully inlet and in place with forend still in the square so everything together and fitted. Will start o shaping the forend tomorrow.

Then I had everything sanded down through 150 and 240grit after a little re-shaping of forend tip and gripcap area. Slimmed the wrist and the forend fo a really nice slim fast handling feel.

After the sanding off of the 360 grit whiskering, re-wetting it and sanding again with 360, then wetting and sanding with 600 grit. I left it for an hour after each wetting before sanding but there was progressively less whisker standing until there was almost none at the final wetting.
Next step has been to start the flooding process where I kept as much 50/50 (tung/veg turps) flooded onto the surface for about an hour till it showed it was slowing on the uptake into the wood. Then I rubbed it down hard with a cloth so there was nothing on the surface. Will do more flooding tomorrow, then sand back to the surface before filling the grain.

You can see where there is dry wood on a couple of places.

really neat"""

Very nice job!!

Nice job, that's a great looking rifle.

I really wish I had that kind of wood-working ability! That turned out very beautifully!

Great Job!!!!!