Seems like every time I have a triggerguard to file I need to make a new jig. Don't know if I lose them, misplace them, donate them as a prize or loan them out but I have made more triggerguard filing jigs then I want to remember. The good thing though is that each one gets more user friendly. This latest on I am posting was really a down and dirty tool that only took about an hour to make from steel laying around the shop and gives me more range of motion than any others I have made in the past.
The backbone for this jig is a 5/8" piece of solid square stock 12" long. I measured all the guards I had on hand and none were longer than 11". Next I made a couple of arms 5" long out of 3/8" x 1 1/4" flat bar. There is a 33/64" hole on one end of each bar and a 3/8" hole on the other. These are bolted to the 5/8" piece of square stock. The two 1/2" diameter rods are 4" long and 5" long. They each have been split for 1 1/4" down the length to accommodate clamping of the triggerguard tenons. I used 6-32 socket head cap screws to draw the cutoff pieces of the rod together.
As you can see, the triggerguard is free to rotate 360 degrees with no interferences. If the piece is too high in your vise you can loosen the 3/8" bolts and lower the arms to obtain a more comfortable filing position.
The pictures should be pretty much self explanatory. Hope you enjoy. Now back to filing.
David
WOW $15.00 for the Reeves guard, I have had that one for a while!
