nice job on the nose cap .
Pouring a nose cap isn’t that hard and in fact when done right you can get a lot of detail work such as finals
Warming up the barrel allows the pewter to better match the barrel flats . IE when the hot pewter hit’s the cold barrel it becomes solid to fast . However you can coat the barrel with a graphite pencil and get around the heating issue . The graphite helps the pewter flow better . However if your not careful you can still get voids in your pour and then have to start over.
This is a poured pewter nose cap I did some years ago on a dualing pistol
With alittle work you can also pour finals , tang inlays ….. You name it .
Here is a tang inlay that is poured pewter with brass inlay . This was also poured right on the stock
here is a link to a quick tutorial i did on revamping a old Jukar pistol . it goes through the steps of how i pour pewter .http://www.tradrag.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=506
As to your stock . What you have is in a since basically a CVA bobcat with a wood stock . Since you want to try and build a kit , why not just do that by restocking the rifle you have .. That way you can add the patch box your thinking of , have a cheek piece . Chose the butt plate design , trigger guard, side plats , nose cap …..
I used to do CVA restocks all the time .
start off with this
and end up with this
maybe this , its really up to you
Pouring a nose cap isn’t that hard and in fact when done right you can get a lot of detail work such as finals
Warming up the barrel allows the pewter to better match the barrel flats . IE when the hot pewter hit’s the cold barrel it becomes solid to fast . However you can coat the barrel with a graphite pencil and get around the heating issue . The graphite helps the pewter flow better . However if your not careful you can still get voids in your pour and then have to start over.
This is a poured pewter nose cap I did some years ago on a dualing pistol
With alittle work you can also pour finals , tang inlays ….. You name it .
Here is a tang inlay that is poured pewter with brass inlay . This was also poured right on the stock
here is a link to a quick tutorial i did on revamping a old Jukar pistol . it goes through the steps of how i pour pewter .http://www.tradrag.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=506
As to your stock . What you have is in a since basically a CVA bobcat with a wood stock . Since you want to try and build a kit , why not just do that by restocking the rifle you have .. That way you can add the patch box your thinking of , have a cheek piece . Chose the butt plate design , trigger guard, side plats , nose cap …..
I used to do CVA restocks all the time .
start off with this
and end up with this
maybe this , its really up to you