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Version 2 of a home-made spotting scope stand. Lots of interesting workholding and figuring out how to do equilateral triangle etc.

The barrel of the clamp is home-made as well, only part not...

Alternate trigger shoe for my smallbore FTR rifle - so that it matches the fullbore one.

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bloody ipad photos seem to be upside down ?"£$%^

current project is a spotting scope stand for FTR. lots of little bits and pieces that go together, taking a lot longer than I thought...

Next one was to make a second base plate for my SKP buttplate. I wanted the same setup on both my fullbore and rimfire FTR rifles, and figured making a 2nd baseplate would be way cheaper than buying...

Next was a barrel clamp and action wrench.

The barrel clamp was designed so that I could bolt it to the towbar of my van and use it on the range. Some interesting lessons learnt - off-centre work...

First up, some simple turning and threading.

Had to make a smaller mandrel for the slitting saw, so that I could maximize the depth I could saw to (see barrel clamp later)

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The bottom...

Earlier this year stumpy discovered that nappies and baby food apparently is a higher priority than a metalwork hobby... :P

So after some negotiations with the Mrs (profuse begging and groveling...