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The Hooked Breech: 

The breech was screwed into the end of the barrel. Then the excess mold lines were removed. Using a machinist's square, I made sure the end of the hooked face of the breech was flat and square. Then I took the tang and performed the same operation with it. 

When the two pieces were brought together, I held them up to the light to see if I had a good fit with no light showing. With this accomplished, I mixed up some 5 minute epoxy and then glued them together. 

Put the barrel in my vise in a vertical position and let the tang and breech harden.

The next step after the two have hardened, is to remove the extra metal down to the flats of the barrel. Note, the barrel channel was taken out to the barrel width, therefore it is important to take it down to the same width. If you look closely at the photo to the right, you will notice the end of the rear tang tilts back slightly at the top and is not perpendicular to the end of the barrel. This was done so as to have a tight fit at the top of the tang where the tang meets the upper portion of the tang at the breech. When inletting, this means more wood will have to be taken off as is inletted downward.

In this photo notice I put "X"s on the two side flats. I mark every other flat around the barrel. I will take these sides down first, then the flat between the "X"s. 

Started filing the "X" flats down.   

I used a straight edge to make sure they were flat, too.

Once all the flats are filed down on the sides, I cut off any exposed epoxy and then I inlet the tang and barrel assembly into the stock. 

With the tang fully inletted into the stock, I then heated up the barrel and tang with my torch and release the parts from each other.