Inletting a tapered barrel?

[TNHillbilly]

Any tips, tutorials, etc., for inletting a tapered barrel, especially doing the 'heavy work' with a router?

 

[Tourblanche]

I hope someboby will come up with something .

So far the only way I know is to use inletting black
a few chisels and scrapers and a lot of time .
Close to 3 hours so far .

 

[wulf]

I make a half octagon cutter for the router and
have my 4' long vice for holding the barrel and
it has a movable straight edge.On a taper i only
would have to move one end to one side them the
other...cutting almost 1/16 deep at a time...
The center line is law.....Wulf...I did show some
pics of that vice holding the stock for a matcher
I was making a while back...

 

[TNHillbilly]

Do you mean this one, Wulf? Guess I hadn't thought that through.

 

[wulf]

Yes. Exactly...This is a tappered round barrel
and I am using a template instead of a straight
edge.The template system will also work for a
swamped barrel. But that can get more complicated
.....Wulf :hatsoff:

 

[NJ Longbeard]

Here is an article from Jack Brooks website on his The classroom page. Scroll down to the article called Inletting a swamped barrel. Jack is a advocate of doing it the old way "by hand" which being a wood worker myself I have to agree with Jack. Check it out! :thumbsup:
http://www.jsbrookslongrifles.com/theclassroom.htm

 

[fitter]

Very good and efficient method.Takes me about 4hrs. to do one.I have a lot of practice though.Most original barrels were done this way. Some makers used a saw to cut the sides.