The last two days have been spent making wood shaving and dust. I changed a few features on my CAD program for my stocks since I made my prototype, so I had to prove the programing, and I certainly wasn't going to put an exhibition English blank on the machine and test my work. I have a few blanks on han dso I picked one that is nice, but wouldn't fill me with remorse if all went South. As it turns out, the stock had some nice figure hiding in there. Here it is, almost finished machining the action inletting.

Since the program was good, time for the real blank to go under the cutter.

And a shot during the final stage of inletting the top side of the action.

The inletting is not machined close enough to fit the action. I just get a good start on the cavity and it ensures alighnment.