After another 10 hours, it's beginning to shape up rather well. I suppose every one of these rifles with a custom stock has different lines, depending upon what the builder's idea of purty is. I'm trying to get it to look simple, yet with good lines. Here's the bottom metal after fitting - you can see how much wood was sanded from what was a rounded bottom profile:



The magazine floor plate fits just right:



The right side profile allows for the use of the Lyman 48C receiver sight, if someone should want to install it:



Relieved for the bolt handle:



Bolt inserted:



Left side profile - haven't yet decided if I want to relieve the area under the magazine cutoff switch so it can be fully functional.... the cutoff position is fairly useless for my purpose:



I think I'll go ahead and bed the receiver before I final shape it.... so I can shoot it before it's finished and see if it's worthy of more work.

Frank