At this point in my build I decided to make a slight architectural modification to the rifle - mind you very slight however any architectural changes should be made as early as possible in a build, no matter how minor. You can't really see it in this photo, but I could see it at a certain angle and could certainly feel it when I ran my hands across the wrist. There was a slight raised area on both sides of the tang that I couldn't get to go away without getting into the tang itself. It bothered me so much I had to do something about it whether it was a real problem or not.
My only solution at this stage of the game was to lower the back end of the tang slightly, in order to give me more wood to work with, but not significantly change the visual profile of the wrist. I started about halfway down the tang, and removed wood in a gentle slope to a depth of about a 16th of an inch just behind the rear tang bolt.
That doesn't sound like much, however after draw filing the wood back level with the tang you can see how much wood it gave me to work with in re-shaping the wrist.
While I was in the area I did some work on the comb transition area:
And here is a close-up of the re-shaped tang/wrist area.
Curtis
