stoneaxe
Stainless
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2010
- Location
- pacific northwest
No idea if this is a bad notion or not-
I have a GM SS 20" .22 LR barrel, nicely tapered with flutes. I was thinking about filing the area between the flutes to create flats between them. No other reason than cosmetics, thinking it would make a cool contrast. Sort of a octagon barrel with flutes, terminating at muzzle and breach into a round. I would put it on the lathe and take a very light detail "wedding ring" cut to end the hand filed or scraped flats, and the flutes.
(I was thinking a carbide scraper might make cutting the flats faster, like a draw file with a brazed on sharpened carbide insert)
Any comments? Is this likely to destroy the barrels accuracy? Anyone done this?
I have a GM SS 20" .22 LR barrel, nicely tapered with flutes. I was thinking about filing the area between the flutes to create flats between them. No other reason than cosmetics, thinking it would make a cool contrast. Sort of a octagon barrel with flutes, terminating at muzzle and breach into a round. I would put it on the lathe and take a very light detail "wedding ring" cut to end the hand filed or scraped flats, and the flutes.
(I was thinking a carbide scraper might make cutting the flats faster, like a draw file with a brazed on sharpened carbide insert)
Any comments? Is this likely to destroy the barrels accuracy? Anyone done this?