Inletting a Straight Barrel

Use a scrap piece of barrel one size smaller than your present channel size. Wrap tight with emery cloth and overlap the excess in your hand above the scrap barrel. Lower gently into your barrel channel. Working very slowly and carefully, sand the channel, testing often until you can just get your new barrel down into the channel. Watch and don’t over-sand the top inside edge of the forestock. Get close and scrape out any high spots.