if you don't want to do it yourself, either look for a local gunsmith who will do it for you, or simply buy an aftermarket stock with a .920 barrel channel

but I'm telling you, the job isn't that hard to do yourself

 

You just need a socket, sandpaper and time.

 

Agreed! That's how I did it. Easy too.

 

Like they said. Start with an aggressive grit and work down to a finer grit, when you get close to the clearance you want. It’s not hard, just take a couple hours. You don’t need to be a gunsmith Just need a little elbow grease.
larry

 

There you have it right from a custom stock builder and a good one at that ! If he says it’s a DIY project then go for it if you screw up which you won’t a couple of hundred bucks gets you a custom stock ! 😬

 

I took a 10” piece of 1” wooden dowel rod screwed a handle to the middle of it attached some 180 grit paper and went to town on it.

Rich

 

…Who can I send this to, that can do a professional job?

Don’t try just any local “gunsmith”, most of them are just part assemblers today. Those guys are fine if you want to build or repair an AR rifle, but many lack the skills to do even simple wood work. A full service gunsmith is who you want here.



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Don’t try just any local “gunsmith”, most of them are just part assemblers today. Those guys are fine if you want to build or repair an AR rifle, but many lack the skills to do even simple wood work. A full service gunsmith is who you want here.



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it's not rocket surgery, or brain science.. this job is so simple, even you could do it...

 

I've used the dowel and sandpaper method to open up several stocks, including an International. A straight .920 inlet is easy.
Start with a 3/4 dowel about 10" or so long and a piece of good 80 grit paper, I prefer the purple stuff. Work patiently. Go up to a 7/8" dowel and some finer paper to finish the job. If you can't find a 7/8" dowel, simply put a second wrap of paper on the 3/4" stick. RichJ's handle sounds like a helpful addition, I've thought about it, but never done one.

 

1. Do it outside, its very messy.
2. go slow .
3. use barrel to see how its going .
4. seal stock after your done.

 

The sockets and sandpaper way really is easy. Just a little elbow grease. Heck, even I couldn't screw that up..

 

Should the depth of the channel at the muzzle end of the stock be the same as the depth near the receiver. In other words I get the simplicity of the width its the depth from one end of the channel to the other that I'm unsure of.

 

Yes, there is also a taper upward in the standard barrel channel when moving from the receiver toward the muzzle. While a socket wrapped with sandpaper will work well for side to side, it is difficult to judge how much of the taper is being removed from the bottom of the barrel channel. That's why I recommend a section (18" - 22") of 1" broom handle wrapped with sandpaper. Much easier to keep the sanding the same depth up/down and side to side.

 

If you want to totally free float the barrel, yes. here is mine. With the ruger .920 Target barrel. In the second pic is my homemade tool. heavy grit one end , light on the other. In the third it looks like it touches on the right, it doesn’t, I just couldn’t hold it and snap pic with my iPad. Hope this helps. Oh yea, lot of patience and fit the barrel often.

 

Old thread I know, but I've been very busy of late.

Contact Clark Custom - they can do it for you... Clark Custom Guns | Established 1950 | Princeton Louisiana - they use factory carbine style stocks for many of their ready-to-sell custom rifles - last time I looked anyways.

I used 2 different size metric deep sockets wrapped with course sandpaper to open the fore-end on factory take down carbine stock - see attached.

It's not hard, just time consuming.

 

if you glue the sand paper to the dowel and put a socket over the other end you can then attach it to a drill to do the hard work for you.

 

wont the rotation of the drill pull more to one side and sand deeper on one side?

 

I did one with 80 grit sandpaper and tall sockets increased dimensions as I needed.

 

You could use a barrel bedding tool, I use a 7/8 Gunline tool looks like this This size seems perfet for the .920 channel but you can use a dowl and sand paper I don't reccomend any motorized tool to fast and one can make too many mis

takes, a good gunsmith might be able to make the cut with a mill.

 

I've done it 3 or 4 times. A 15/16" ball-end mill in a milling machine with sufficient X-axis travel. 5 minutes to get the work piece square and 5 minutes to make 3 or 4 passes to get down to half depth. Still, I agree either a sandpaper-wrapped dowel or socket will get the job done.

Those Gunline bedding tools can be handy, and I've probably used them more than any human alive, but one wrong stroke, and the cutters will ride up and out of the barrel channel, rounding off the nice, crisp edge of the barrel channel shelf, and ruining wood-to-metal fit...don't ask how I know.

 

The OP hasn’t been back to the forum since he posted seven months ago. Maybe he saw the first two responses, but none of the other helpful responses. Hit-and-run posters suck.





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