Chambers New England Fowler butt plate.

[Rt5403]

Newbie here just wondering how you would approach this. Does the butt plate need to be shaped? Do I just start hacking wood away to match the curve of the butt plate?

[rich pierce]

My choice would depend on the pitch you want. But I’d not inlet it till you decide whether to remove a quarter inch or more at the heel or bend the buttplate.

[Rt5403]

Kind of like the way it shoulders now might do a little of both.

[Mike Brooks]

Pull the toe of the bp out a bit. Then straight down then forward

[smart dog]

Hi,
Anneal the plate and pull the toe out so it looks more like this.



dave

[Rt5403]

Thank you for the help fellas.

[Mike Brooks]

You can aneal  it but you won't need to.

[Bob Gerard]

I think Smart dog (Dave) may have a free tutorial on installing butt plates like yours on the forum.

[Adrie luke]

Bent this first.

[smart dog]

Hi Mike,
I think you are mostly right about annealing but the last 2 wax-cast butt plates I installed, including the one I show above, would not budge without annealing. To be honest, I really prefer sand cast plates.

dave

[Mike Brooks]

You might pull out the toe a little one more time.

[moleeyes36]

Rt5403,

Rich Pierce mentions deciding what pitch you want.  Here is a discussion where Taylor talks about pitch, it has some good information to consider about pitch https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=30988.25

Don Richards

[Rt5403]

Awesome info thanks guys.

[Tim Crosby]

 Scroll down close to the bottom of this thread, may be of some help.

   Tim C.

 https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=52636.msg525468#msg525468

[Noeyebrows]

I just did the same one. My first inclination was to try and bend the toe out a bit, but I chickened out. I was afraid the edges would crack since it’s slightly concave. I ended up setting the top tang flat and scribing a pencil line where to cut off the wood at the bottom. I second Mike’s recommendation- inlet straight down, then forward. Went really well. After reading the post link above regarding pitch, I’m hoping I didn’t create a cheek slapping 10ga. Might be worth trying to bend some to keep it more square to your shoulder.

[Noeyebrows]

Here is mine inletted