Installed the toeplate and then blended it into the bottom of the buttplate. 

A center line was drawn on the stock. The cut out toeplate had two 1/16" holes drilled where the two #4 screws were to be driven into the stock. It was important to make sure the end of the plate extended 1/32" over the end of the stock. This excess will be inletted into the buttplate later. The plate was placed onto the stock and the 1/16" pilot holes were drilled into the stock. 

  The toeplate was then inletted into the stock. 

Once inletted into the stock, I removed the toeplate and reinstalled the buttplate. Then I used a flat safe file to cut sideways into the buttplate enough for the toeplate to settle back down into it's inletted area. You will note the end of the buttplate is very thick, so I filed off the backside to thin it down, plus I lowered the height closer to an 1/8" above the surface of the toeplate.  Now I was able to peen the toeplate over the edge of the toeplate. 

Once this was done, I filed the surfaces down.

Now I wanted to put in the forward side plate bolt on the lock. I had to determine the depth of the barrel channel and place a mark inside the inletted lock area.  Then I drilled a 1/8" hole in the bottom flat in the barrel channel to find the depth of the ramrod channel underneath it. Then I could measure up 3/8" from this last mark to show me the ceiling of the ramrod channel.  The result is the amount of wood left between the barrel channel and the ramrod channel.  It is thru this wood, I want to drill the forward bolt so it will not interfere with the ramrod in the ramrod channel.

I marked the location on the wood inside the inletted lock area. Then measured the location and transferred this to the lock plate. A #29 drill bit was used to drill the initial hole into the lock plate. The lock plate was placed back into the stock. Then I ran the #29 bit thru the hole as a pilot hole for the stock. The hole ran true thru the stock and never touched the ramrod channel, nor the barrel channel. Then a 3/16" bit was drilled thru the stock with the lock removed.  A 8-32 tap was then used on the lock after it was reinstalled onto the stock. Once tapped, a #8-32 side bolt was screwed into the lock.

I marked the bolt and cut it off and rounded the end of the bolt to match the other exposed bolts in the lock plate.  Now it will blend into the face of the lock.

Now I will start working on the proper shape of the buttstock.