Done any woodwork?

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SaxonPig

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I hate making and refinishing gun stocks. Tedious, and not my area of expertise (still trying to figure out just exactly WHAT my area of expertise is, by the way). But every once in a while I succumb to temptation and take on a gun stock project. Here are a couple of bolt gun projects that turned out OK. Share your adventures in woodworking.

This Remington was highly modified when I got it. Belonged to a gun smith who experimented on it. But it still had the original stock. It was cut down trying to match the shortened barrel and it looked awful. I bought a semi-inletted stock and fitted it. These always seem to need a lot more fitting that the sellers suggest.


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Picked up a cut down Krag about 25 years ago. Wood was incredibly ugly. I bought a semi-finished stock that was advertised as 90% inletted but 20% was more accurate. I spent a couple years working off and on to get it done.


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This one is a bit of an odd duck. Started out as a classic sporter Mauser but when it came time to select the wood I went a little nuts and used a more modern style laminated stock. Interesting contrast with the 3 leaf express sights and other classic features against the more modern looking wood.


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...not my area of expertise
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Not to be argumentative, but I have to disagree with your above statement. Your work is as skilled as I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Nice to look at while sipping my coffee this morning.
 
Wow, I grew up in a wood shop,,,

Wow, I grew up in a wood shop,,,
But I never tried to make a rifle stock.

Nice work my friend,,,
Especially that 30-40 Krag.

Aarond

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love the muaser, maybe you coud=ld make me a stock for my finnish bagant as "close'-stock-as-possible", I have tried to find a surplus one and they don't exsist w/ paying more than the value of the rifle

great work!
 
(still trying to figure out just exactly WHAT my area of expertise is, by the way).
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From what I've seen, you have a few, but my first vote goes to finding extremely good deals over a very long expanse of time and making very attractive projects out them, with a secondary nod to taking very nice photographs of same.
 
I worked for a Gun Shop through the 1980's and handled most of the wood work , Used mostly Birchwood Casey products but found others that did a good job as well but prefer Tru oil . I think the OP is aware of his talent .
 
I don't hunt, just shoot from benchrest at range. So, prefer a stock more suitable for shooting from a rest. Am retired and woodworking is one of my hobbies. Have fun making my stocks from whatever wood available to me free. Example, someone lost a nice maple end table on side of road that was badly damaged, but some of its wood was salvageable.....same thing for an antique amoire made of oak that was too busted up to restore, but lots of 5/16" thick wood. In other words, I cobble/laminate the wood and shape to suit me.

Unfortunately, my attempts to add pics to my post have failed, so no pics.
 
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Nice work.
I just came out of my "tent" ( visqueened-off area with the stock duplicator) covered with sawdust so I can relate to the thread.

I'm finishing up a Century "U-Fix-Em" Israeli K-98. It came four or five months ago, but started messing with it little by little about a month ago. The stock was, well, I don't know the words. When it came, my son took one look at the rusted up mess and bet me five bucks I couldn't even get the bolt open.

After many sheets of 60 grit (followed by the finish) to remove the oil-soaked surface wood I got it to where it looks one heck of lot better than it did. More "bring it back from the dead" than a masterpiece, for sure.

It's all about just having pride in your work, as you do. As tedious as it sometimes get doing stockwork most every day, I find it hard to let each one go-always finding one more "spot" that use "just a little more" sanding- despite the fact that they're sold as semi-finished.

That Krag stock looks to have some really nice figure to it.
 
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