With lots of time on my hands this summer recovering from injury I decided to mess around and modify a tikka factory stock I’ve had laying around for a while. I’ve seen a bunch of the DIY stock build threads and figured I’d give it a go and see if I could accomplish this with the info found in those threads. Only stuff I purchased was a cheap carbon fibre kit from amazon, some peel ply and some spray paint, all other materials I had laying around the garage already and wanted to keep this project cheap as possible. The goal was to give the stock a negative comb, slightly flatten out the toe line, as well as shorten the fore end. I’ve never done any sort of work with carbon fibre or altering a stock so it was all new to me and figured this would be a fun learning project incase I feel up to building a complete stock one day.
First I lopped off a few inches of the fore end and used some JB weld marine putty to cap the end.
Then I cut apart the butt end with a hacksaw and Dremel
Next I used some JB quick weld to attach things back together and filled with spray foam
Then put a bit of JB plastic weld on the bottom cause I ran out of the normal stuff.
I then sanded and smoothed everything out as best I could and got to the carbon fibre. Decided to just lay a half layer over the cut out and foam, figured doing a small part would be easier to start and see how it goes. I mixed up some resin and brushed it on, let it tack up a bit, then laid down the carbon. Wetted it out and covered in peel ply and wrapped with electrical tape. Waited 24hrs and removed the tape and peel ply, turned out ok, I sanded it down and prepared for the next full layer.
First I lopped off a few inches of the fore end and used some JB weld marine putty to cap the end.
Then I cut apart the butt end with a hacksaw and Dremel
Next I used some JB quick weld to attach things back together and filled with spray foam
Then put a bit of JB plastic weld on the bottom cause I ran out of the normal stuff.
I then sanded and smoothed everything out as best I could and got to the carbon fibre. Decided to just lay a half layer over the cut out and foam, figured doing a small part would be easier to start and see how it goes. I mixed up some resin and brushed it on, let it tack up a bit, then laid down the carbon. Wetted it out and covered in peel ply and wrapped with electrical tape. Waited 24hrs and removed the tape and peel ply, turned out ok, I sanded it down and prepared for the next full layer.
