Cast Aluminum Butt Plates

Here are the results of the butt plates I cast using aluminum. The Marlin had a spot of porosity but over all looked ok. The Remington is the wrong butt plate for the gun. I knew it was before I casted it but I didn't think it was going to come out as good as it did. Otherwise I would have casted one to fit. Here they are together. I'm thinking of recasting these in brass.

Here's the Marlin.



And here's the Remington.

Those look great.... brass would also be cool...

wow those look good i really like the marlin one that would look good on my model 60

Beautiful! They cleaned up nice.
Not sure how the originals fit - looks like those are a wee bit undersized? One thing I've noticed about aluminum, it has a tendancy to shrink a tad and makes it a little harder to use original pieces for patterns. I'm with you and DW on the brass - would love to see how those turn out. Turn the furnace up cause AL melts about 1200 F and Brass will take about 1650F

Those look great...and will only get better from there. I can't wait to see what is next

eagle60 wrote:Beautiful! They cleaned up nice.
Not sure how the originals fit - looks like those are a wee bit undersized? One thing I've noticed about aluminum, it has a tendancy to shrink a tad and makes it a little harder to use original pieces for patterns. I'm with you and DW on the brass - would love to see how those turn out. Turn the furnace up cause AL melts about 1200 F and Brass will take about 1650F

Yeah I think I got a little shrinkage here too.

hawcer wrote:Those look great...and will only get better from there. I can't wait to see what is next

Thanks man. Yeah I got some pretty cool stuff coming up.

dartfreak75 wrote:wow those look good i really like the marlin one that would look good on my model 60

Thanks bud. I really like the contrast of the light alu against the dark stock!

yea me too looks good i wonder if there would be any way to polish it or anything to make it shine that would look good!

those look amazing..... really a great job and i enjoyed the videos as well...

dartfreak75 wrote:wow those look good i really like the marlin one that would look good on my model 60

Dude take it off and send it over!

dartfreak75 wrote:yea me too looks good i wonder if there would be any way to polish it or anything to make it shine that would look good!

I can use some wet dry sand paper and get a mirror finish. I just kinda figured I let these be and do a better job on my next project. The next project will be worth spending more time on.

kcatto wrote:those look amazing..... really a great job and i enjoyed the videos as well...

Thanks brother. I appreciate all the support!

i am trying to figure out what I can send you to cast for me.... practice for you of course....hehehe