Lets see that pretty wood

[robtattoo]

Nice chatoyancy on that one.

Thanks! I used a bunch of Alkanet oil on that to get the color depth I wanted. I don't remember exactly how many coats of finishing oil I put on, but I remember it was somewhere in the mid teens. The polishing took weeks to get it where I wanted.

I ultimately ended up selling it because I was genuinely afraid of getting it scuffed up. I hunted with it a grand total of 4 hours, one afternoon, then it spent 3 years sitting in a display case in a room I hardly use.

The rifle started out as this little $20 pile of parts.....

Not even a real M70! It was a Sears model 82.

It was the first & last heirloom quality gun I'll ever own. I'm far bettered suited to plastic, carbon & paint!

 

[Irish Miner]

My shotguns. The M-12 with the cheekpiece I made for my Dad.View attachment 1006412View attachment 1006413View attachment 1006414View attachment 1006415

Nice Cowboy.... very nice.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Thanks. I enjoyed making stocks, but I am 84 now and I can't do checkering anymore and really good wood is very expensive. The sporterized 03 Springfield with the tigerstripe maple stock in my post is the 2nd one I ever made. Made it for me when I was 18 cause I shoot lefthanded and not many factory stocks back then fit me.

 

[2Stamp]

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I made a thumbhole stock years ago for my custom 25-06. I posted a picture of it in my post. I started to use it for deer/antelope hunting, but quickly realized that using the safety with my thumb was really uncomfortable. I finally took the stock and modified it to use on the custom .220 Ackley Improved Swift I was building.

I believe it's a Richards microfit and at the time they had a hybrid thumbhole that was cut lower across the top so you could still shoot it like a regular sporter. If that makes sense. I think they called it their "dual grip".

 

[Macintosh]

Me like wood. These are all shotguns I stocked and checkered myself. Havent done one in 10+ years, but I get the itch once in a while. Made the mkIV grips last winter, still havent got around to checkering them yet.
@eamyrick I’ll see your muddy 686 and raise you by the worlds only custom 870-express in a swamp.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Me like wood. These are all shotguns I stocked and checkered myself. Havent done one in 10+ years, but I get the itch once in a while. Made the mkIV grips last winter, still havent got around to checkering them yet.
@eamyrick I’ll see your muddy 686 and raise you by the worlds only custom 870-express in a swamp.

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You are very good!!

 

[Unclecroc]

 

[Decker9]

Some nice sticks fellas! Definitely more walnut in my see then not.

 

[Decker9]

Walnut I built for a mountain rifle. Unfortunately didn’t hold onto this one

 

[Decker9]

One for a friend

 

[Decker9]

This winters project

 

[eLightfoot]

This winters project

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Damn that English looks good!

 

[eLightfoot]

Heres my current project
5 piece English/maple laminate. Skeletonized the butt to lose weight. Just glued it up this weekend. Inletting to come soon. For a Sako 90

Sitting on this other English blank for something special

 

[Macintosh]

Heres my current project
5 piece English/maple laminate. Skeletonized the butt to lose weight. Just glued it up this weekend. Inletting to come soon. For a Sako 90

Looks
Like a nice piece of walnut. Curious if you’re just laminating by choice, did you need the thickness, dealing with wonky grain flow, or??

 

[eLightfoot]

Looks
Like a nice piece of walnut. Curious if you’re just laminating by choice, did you need the thickness, dealing with wonky grain flow, or??

By choice. Just want to make it extra stable/strong. Plus lose some weight in the butt.
I like the pinstripe look too.

 

[handwerk]

wow some beauties here for sure.
This is a mid 50's M70 .270 FWT. restocked by a friend, who then took sheep all over the world with it and then gifted it to me. A joy to both look at and use. One of my most treasured rifles.

 

[Decker9]

Damn that English looks good!

Straight from Turkey

Heres my current project
5 piece English/maple laminate. Skeletonized the butt to lose weight. Just glued it up this weekend. Inletting to come soon. For a Sako 90

Sitting on this other English blank for something special

Gorgeous slab there!! Iv never handled laminate before, would that make a stiffer stock vs a solid blank?

What’s your inletting process? Do you inlet by machine or by hand? I’d love to see it once finished!!

 

[Decker9]

Not the prettiest wood but has some nice straight grain. Iv been told it looks like English walnut? I don’t know for sure. The cool part I think is it’s been here since 1952, my grandad ordered it to re stock a mannlicher, I figured it would be a good candidate for my first stock a handful of years ago.

 

[eLightfoot]

Straight from Turkey



Gorgeous slab there!! Iv never handled laminate before, would that make a stiffer stock vs a solid blank?

What’s your inletting process? Do you inlet by machine or by hand? I’d love to see it once finished!!

Ahh Turkish.
I’ve only completed one stock so far. But I used a trim router to rough out most of the inlet free hand. Then get after the rest with chisels/gouges, inletting grease.
Here’s my dad’s post 64 Winchester that I did, from an 06’ to a 6mmAI.

 

[Decker9]

A heirloom rifle, .458wm with a rosewood stock that I find myself gawking at a lot. Grandad built it in the early 80’s for a Cape buffalo hunt, but the airline lost it on his way there so it didn’t get used. Luckily he did get it back weeks later. I’m currently restocking it slowly with a nice Turkish but with a left hand fit to it, so I can take it to Africa for its intended purpose one day, I think he’d like that. That rear sight hates my left hand thumb and the steel butplate hates my boney shoulder lol, I haven’t pulled its trigger since 1999, though it’s the first centerfire I shot as a wee boy. “Grouse loads” were a hoot!