Mike Brooks buttletting tutorial?

[WadePatton]

Now that i'm 4/5's done inletting my buttplate, I'm trying to learn how to do it more better/faster next time (while it's painfully FRESH in my mind  ). 

Here and everywhere else i see this reference to Mr. Brooks' buttplate inletting tutorial, but i get a "no, it's not here" message when i try to use that link. 

I did find Mike's own pages and a Carolina Gun tutorial there, but that's a precarve and brass-different ballgame.

I see nothing of buttplates in the "gunbuilding" reference section here, and searching here...well that's how i found out about the MB tutorial.  I've also searched out there on the wild world web.

SO...I'll trudge back off to the dungeon for some more sooting and scratching... 

[WadePatton]

One more click led me to this PDF sequence.

carry on.

http://www.homegunsmith.com/cgi-bin/ib3/iB_html/uploads/post-71-31335-black_powder_build_primer.pdf

[PPatch]

Carrying on here... good luck. Don't spare the hammer on it when you've got just that lil smidgen to go.

dp

[WadePatton]

thanks Dave. 

Taking a break.  I had to shorten the pull about 3/32 to cover the inside corner gap.  Maybe tonight is the night.

ball peen

[duca]

Awesome man, Thanks for the tutorial.

[Mike Brooks]

Awesome man, Thanks for the tutorial.

You're welcome.

[Old Bob]

Mike I've built 4 rifles so far and I've always done it the hard way it seems. This has opened my eyes to making it a good bit easier and I look forward to my next. I've got a NOS Getz barrel, and about everything else except the lock which I'm in the process of forging, the nosecap and patchbox which I'll also make. I've always admired the way you finish the rifles I've seen here and elsewhere. Thanks for making this available.

[aaronc]

Wade, thanks for posting,   M Brooks thank you for making such an in depth tutorial with great pics. I do believe this is worth printing.

[TNVolunteerEngineer]

I have inletted way too many curved buttplates to my liking, as I like steel buttplates on my cartridge guns as well. And of course I like a curved shotgun style buttplate with a peak at the heel.  I have used two tools most often in this process; the dremel and Brownells barrel inletting tool.  I use the Dremel bit about 3/16 in diameter with cutters on its circumference.  I also use the burr in the same size.  The barrel inletting tool is the type that looks like a series of stacked washers with O-rings in between. In reality they are a set of stacked scrapers and work extremely well on end grain.

The other application for which I have used the Brownells barrel inletting tool was to fair in the segments on my two-landing handrail in my new house.  The finish carpenter was planning for three days' work on this and I completed it in about three hours.   As a result, the carpenter asked me to order a set of these tools for him and that is what he uses now to fair in all his handrails.

[whitebear]

Mike, thanks so much for the tutorial.  You answered several questions I had on how to do things.  As someone else said I have been doing things the hard way. 

If you stated this I missed it but I suppose that this was more or less a copy of an original if so where could I see pictures of the original?

[Mike Brooks]

That gun came pretty much out of me with certain 18th century-isms worked into it.
Somebody clever ought to figure out how to move that tutorial over here.....

[TPH]

That's a good idea Mike, it's an invaluable tool with good information for those starting out as well as being full of helpful reminders and alternate ways of doing things beneficial for those with experience.

[WadePatton]

a couple of pics and good comments here:

http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=18440.0