It has been a while since I have posted any progress reports with my 6.5x55 Swede build and that due in large part to being daddy day care. Anyway I have done quite a bit of work to the old girl and it is time to blue the barrel and marry it to the receiver.
I forged the bolt handle, took the receiver down to the white, drilled and tapped it for the scope, jeweled the bolt, blued the receiver using Mark Lee's express brown 2, Installed a Dayton Traister Mark II low profile safety, made the action screws from screw blanks using the 1/4x22 Whitworth die, milled the action screw holes to accept the larger screw heads, cleaned the trigger guard down to the white and re-blued it using the same Mark Lee's express brown, chased the receiver threads with the appropriate taps. When I started this project the receiver had broken action screws which I easily removed. This build started as nothing more than an orphaned receiver and bolt. There was nothing collectable at all. I just brought it back to a useful bang stick.
The list of aftermarket parts besides the Dayton Traister Mark II safety includes the short chambered Douglas barrel, leupold scope bases and medium high rings, a Wolf firing pin spring kit.
I'll post pictures later on.