Rem 700 LPI?

joken

Anyone know how many LPI on older Remington BDL stocks? Ones with plastic butt plates and the white spacers. Any tips on pointing the checkering on these stocks much appreciated. Thanks, Ken

OleDuk

Get a multi-leaved thread gauge and you can determine the lines per inch easily.
Cheers,
OleDuk[:)][:)]

FWAddit

I managed to convert an old Remington buttstock from impressed to cut checkering using only an Xacto knife and a triangular needle file. I took out enough ridges between diamond-shaped indents to create starter grooves to keep the file aligned, then carefully deepened those grooves with the file.

I assume that the impressed checkering is 20 LPI, because it's not too far off the spacing on the 18 LPI ones I had on hand. Checkering tools would probably work better than the system I used, but only if they matched.

mrbruce

You'll be best served by using a single cutter when your redoing the pressed checkering.

nononsense

joken,

In answer to your question, the older Remington stocks that I have are 20 LPI and that's the same number that I have in my notes for the BDL.

I use a single line cutter also. Make sure that the stock is controlled to prevent accidental movement at an inopportune time. Use a sharp or brand new cutter. I wear an OptiVisor with magnification to help with accuracy, I go slow and concentrate. If you're going to checker, checker, don't let anything else distract you.

Best.

joken

Thanks for the answers, Ken