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January 8, 2025
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Installed a repro plastic butt plate. Used a scotch brite pad on a die grinder. Gouged a little in a couple spots. Didn’t have the correct tool. It worked. Wet sanded with 600 grit to finish.
October 14, 2024
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That looks so much better than the ventilated recoil pad. Good job!
January 20, 2023
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Outstanding. I’m about to do the identical thing to my single barrel. Where did you get the screws?
Did you tape the wood?
Would you use a detail sander with 40 grit to rough it down?
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 8, 2025
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Zebulon said
Outstanding. I’m about to do the identical thing to my single barrel. Where did you get the screws?
Did you tape the wood?
Would you use a detail sander with 40 grit to rough it down?
Screws came from the same eBay store I got the plate from. 5$ I think. I since found that you can get a 12 pack of slotted screws from brownells for around $10. I did tape the stock with masking tape. The scotch brite disk was a little too much. I should have used something less aggressive. The battery powered Milwaukee die grinder was new, I wanted to use my new shiny tool. 40 grit probably would have been better. I got through the tape just slightly at the toe. Wasn’t too upset since the stocks are already refinished. Good candidate for some oxpho blue and getting the stocks a little more red sometime.
January 20, 2023
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Thanks. I’ll take your advice. Without taking the buttstock off, it looks like a hand tool would be more accurate than a bench top belt sander.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Looks like it ought to, good job. I tried that job once with a repro red rubber recoil pad, it was a bit stressful and the pad had a couple of defects but most folks can’t tell. I can see the gouges but quite frankly would have missed them unless you mentioned them. Go shoot it!
Mike
January 8, 2025
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TXGunNut said
Looks like it ought to, good job. I tried that job once with a repro red rubber recoil pad, it was a bit stressful and the pad had a couple of defects but most folks can’t tell. I can see the gouges but quite frankly would have missed them unless you mentioned them. Go shoot it!
Mike
It may or may not have ended a blackbird out the back door shortly after the installation.
January 20, 2023
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A good sign.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
March 31, 2009
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Looks really good to me. I’ve done a few buttplate jobs and it is extremely hard to not fit one without some scratches unless you keep taking the piece off and on a hundred times. 40 grit WOW. I never use anything under 60 for roughing.
January 20, 2023
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Chuck, keep in mind I’ve never done a buttplate job. I don’t have a feel for how the plastic cuts. I’ve even considered using a sharp block plane if the material were amenable. It’s easier to clean off and resharpen a single blade than get the stuff out of a good file. There will be very little material to remove and I’d like to avoid power tools, if possible.
The repro buttplate I have doesn’t overlap the wood very much at all, to the extent I’ve got to be very careful locating the screw holes. I was thinking about taping the buttplate on and then starting the holes with a VIX bit.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
March 31, 2009
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Zebulon said
Chuck, keep in mind I’ve never done a buttplate job. I don’t have a feel for how the plastic cuts. I’ve even considered using a sharp block plane if the material were amenable. It’s easier to clean off and resharpen a single blade than get the stuff out of a good file. There will be very little material to remove and I’d like to avoid power tools, if possible.
The repro buttplate I have doesn’t overlap the wood very much at all, to the extent I’ve got to be very careful locating the screw holes. I was thinking about taping the buttplate on and then starting the holes with a VIX bit.
Mark the area that is too large. Take the plate off the gun. Use some sandpaper, around 200 grit. When you get it to size use 400 grit then polish. Not sure what you need to do? Are the holes already in the buttplate or are you having to drill your own? Assuming the holes are in the buttplate. Make a paper pattern of the butt stock and punch the holes in it. Align the pattern on the wood and drill pilot holes. The holes need to be about the size of the inner part of the screw. The area that is not threaded. You want the holes small enough that only the threads will cut into the stock.
January 8, 2025
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Zebulon said
Chuck, keep in mind I’ve never done a buttplate job. I don’t have a feel for how the plastic cuts. I’ve even considered using a sharp block plane if the material were amenable. It’s easier to clean off and resharpen a single blade than get the stuff out of a good file. There will be very little material to remove and I’d like to avoid power tools, if possible.
The repro buttplate I have doesn’t overlap the wood very much at all, to the extent I’ve got to be very careful locating the screw holes. I was thinking about taping the buttplate on and then starting the holes with a VIX bit.
I taped the plate in place and drilled the holes. I probably used too small of a bit. I didn’t realize how abrasive the scotch brite was as I’m used to using it on metal. I should have realized it. I’m guessing 40 grit would be less abrasive. I think we have the same plastic replacement plate. It came off a lot faster than I thought it would. By then it was too late and I had to make the best of it. I wet sanded with balistol and I think that helped shine it back up.
January 20, 2023
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I use Ballistol but hadn’t thought of it as an abrasive lubricant – but that’s a good idea. It’s supposed to be harmless to wood.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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