Friday, September 11, 2020

Remington 514 Restoration Wrapup

 The last step after refinishing was to attach the reproduction butt plate. It was slightly oversize, so I used the standard technique used for fitting rubber recoil pads. Attach the buttplate and wrap the stock with painter’s tape for protection:




Carefully sand the pad flush with the paper, using a belt sander, disk sander, or sanding block:


Polish the sanded edge of the butt plate with successive finer grades of paper (and a buffing wheel if you have one), and there you are:




(Update: Not too long after I finished the restoration, my friend started having second thoughts and wondered if I might sell it back to him. I said, sure, eventually. He made various offers of swaps, but I surprised him by just giving it to him the next time he dropped by.)



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