LMTSS makes his first Shroud.

Well now I know why they cost as much as thy do!
I started with 1-1/4″ OD X 1.010″ ID Tube 6061-T6 Aluminum-18″
and 1″ OD X 0.930″ ID Tube 6061-T6 Aluminum-18″
$20. and change from speedymetals.com
Then I went to Home Depot with my tubes to find washers that fit in large tube. I also bought some sand paper, grub screws, a small tap and die kit, a plumbers pipe cutter, primer, black spray paint and a 2 wooden dowls. spent about $100.

I had to sand the hell out of the inside of the larger tube. It had ridges going down the length of the tube. I tried doing this by hand by wrapping sand paper around the end of a dowel and twist like crazy at first. Takes too long. So I get one of those bolts, that are threaded for wood on one side, and machine bolt on the other end and screw the end into the dowel and chuck the other end into my drill and go to town with 80 grit first then smoothed it down with progressively finer sand paper.
I also had to grind a little material off the edges of the washers as well.so i grab a small grinding stone that chucks into a drill, place hole of washer over one of the dowels I bought for such a purpose, and start grinding the edges so the fit nicely down the tube.
So I cut the smaller tube into spacers around 3″ long. stuff one spacer down the tube then a washer, spacer, washer, spacer….. for three sections. I am a barrel bushing as an end cap and will most likely use another one to keep the guts from coming undone inside the shroud.took me most of the day / evening between other chores to complete what I is done so far. It works pretty well so far. Not like a Tony shroud or GTBJ shroud, but a welcome difference. I will post more pics with on rifle when complete.