Post by Parashooter on Jan 27th, 2019 at 10:05pm
I believe a cursory examination of the forestock flutes ("finger grooves") shows them to be a modern product, cut not with the original ~3" cutter wheel but with a smaller ball-end router bit. Note how the origin of the flute differs on these two -
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(Note also wood proud of handguard and band - surprising defects in an otherwise outstanding job of stock reproduction.)
Study attached detail from a description of the tooling used to cut similar flutes on the US M1903 to see how the cutter was used to produce more gradual entry and exit -
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(Note also wood proud of handguard and band - surprising defects in an otherwise outstanding job of stock reproduction.)
Study attached detail from a description of the tooling used to cut similar flutes on the US M1903 to see how the cutter was used to produce more gradual entry and exit -
03flutes.gif ( 109 KB | 1
Download )