I picked up an old krag sporter a couple years back from a parking lot "out of the trunk" sale. I shot it a bit with cast and it did quite well. The after market stock was quite blocky and had some serious gouges in it from the years. I decided to slim the stock, install a barrel support to get rid of the barrel band, and use it to play with the new engraving tool that I recently aquired from NCBS friend Urny and his wife Linda. I finished up today and took some pics.
The stock had a gawd awful monte carlo hump that I removed and gave the cheekpiece a shadowline.
Bottom metal. Built rear sling swivel mount to replace loop type. Original inletting was a little ruff.
Escutcheon for barrel support. Cut a dovetail into bottom of barrel where there was lots of metal. A steel cylinder with male dovetail was added with d&t to take the screw. Some of my amature engraving.
Trigger guard engraving.
Made steel grip cap and engraved to replace plastic original.