using guides to inlett a barrel

[kaintuck]

 
1. get blank~

2.Profile your blank~

3.Measure the barrel, adjust washers to match the barrels contour~




4.make sure your bit depth matches how you want to cut the groove~

5.routed baseline groove....and then I handcut the rest~

6. inletted~



i have a 45degree bit~ I have moved the guides and completely used a pony router for the entire job...but I chicken out on this piece of wood, and resorted to hand planes for the 45 and sidewalls.........
hope this explains the guide and pony router techique~

marc n tomtom
and WHY do it this way?? I'll let tomtom tell you.................

[bowkill]

very interesting....where did you find that bit?

[Mark Elliott]

I like that cat. 

[Mikeh]

Looks as if you have the inletting procedure down pretty well. But I have a question, is by any chance your shop located in the chicken house? Just curious with all the straw etc. I like old tomtom also. Mikeh

[kaintuck]

Lee valley is probably where I got my bits, or other wood catalogs. They done have to be the most expensive ones, as I take my time in woodworking the pony router.

Not a chicken coop,  in the summer it feels like it!...I built it years back, storage/cat house....then converted it with a bench, wood floor etc..... 12x8 with a few windows. IF I ever got enough money, I would love to build my own log cabin shop......but finding an buying the logs has been way outta my price ability. Funny gone. Is, these fellows bought and built a lot around here.....but I have never seen them use them.....they build one beside the real home.....and just decorate the log house.....like a giant antique 3D photo.........
What wasted ability

Marc n tomtom

[Hungry Horse]

Marc-N-Tomtom;

  I did something similar, but cut the barrel channel before taking the strip off the top that runs from the breech, to the muzzle. My rails capture the entire base of the router. The first bit  for this operation, I made out of a spade bit, the same dimensions as the barrel across the flats. I later bought some barrel inletting bits, that are carbide. The big advantage to this system, is you cut the entire barrel channel with the router. Hard maple take at least three passes, sometimes more. I attached mine to a Workmate portable work bench with big C-clamps. This system allows you to adjust the tracks to cut a channel that creates cast off in the stock as well. I also use it to cut the ramrod channel in the front end of the stock.
 Now if I could just make a bit that would cut a channel for a swamped barrel I'd be all set.

           Hungry Horse

[kaintuck]

HH, the rail system allows the swamp radii to be copied if needed.....side to side and up and down.
Straight barrels are easier in set up for sure!

I routed and drilled the RR channel/hole this morning, didn't break thru 

Marc n tomtom