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I too am looking forward to getting one as I want to get the Winchester out and in use.

All done and fit confirmed, the one in the picture is a soft metal (7075) prototype as it came off the machine and it seems to work rather well. The finished tough version will be listed in the shop this coming weekend once I have worked out the final hours on the job. preference will be given to those who have expressed an interest in the original project

Put one aside for me please.

Alpha1 wrote: Put one aside for me please.

Me too!

Update - The final price to forum members is GBP99.95 plus some postage. List is GBP109.95 so a modest saving :)

Please note this offer price is for active F-B(UK) members, please email your orders to shed at shootingshed.co.uk

Kevin does not need to email the SHED

I have sent you a email

…and here it is, the Shooting SHED Winchester 1894AE .357/.38 Lifter machined from EN26T – I have marked this this one SHED 0001 so I know it is the hard prototype. All future versions will be rumble de-burred and will have something to denote they are from the SHED on them. I cannot do the rumbling in house although I guess I could always bung then in my old tumbler although I doubt Walnut medium would do much in less than a week or two, alternatively I could use the ceramic media that is reserved for Moly and HBN coating however I also doubt they are a match made in heaven, so I will outsource this operation and the plan is to ship end of the week give or take a couple of days.
I am pleased with the result and it has taken more hours than I should count, cutters have been burnt out, tweaks added, soft parts machined which were so soft they scuffed up and all the other issues you see when prototyping something for the first time. There will be an initial run of 25 units and after that I will have a think. Everything is set up now and the process learnt and I did say I would never do another run of F/TR bipods and that was two builds/upgrades ago

Huzzah.