Crosman 2200W

marflow 777 said:

i have been thinking about this and have thought of hundred ways that it could be screwed up
it would be easier to make it in two pieces and also lose much of its strength at the same time
a fixture would have to made to drill the foregrip i would guess
so, tell us the how you made it because it is the important part of this project
as far as can tell you would have to make one out of some other material to know where the hole would be needed ???????

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I thought that.

I purchased a piece of walnut from a well known auction site, something like 50mm x50mm a little longer than the original pump handle.

I then selected the top and front and marked it.

I made various profile gauges from the original pump handle and transfer them to new on I was making.

I moved on to the inletting, I first drilled a series of hole in to the unwanted wood near to my marking out lines. I used my milling machine and hand wood chisels to clean out the bulk of waste wood. For the half round of the pump tube I used a router bit in my milling machine close to my lines and finished off by sanding ,checking the fitment on the pump tube.

The slot for the pump arm I used a milling cutter and finished off by sanding, again checking the fitment. There were two angles for the slot; I cut the flat one first before cutting the angled one.

After that I measured the centres of the holes for the roll pins where from the old handle and checked with the pump arm using a vernier calliper and transfer over to the new piece. I drilled the holes with a small drill to start with and then checked the alignment before drilling to size.

This just left the final shaping to do .I used a Stanley Surform, bench plane, David’s razor plane, wood chisels, angle grinder with sanding disc and an electric detail sander. Stopping and checking with my profile gauges. I also checked with my hand to see if it felt right.

The final finish was achieved by hand sanding using various grades, oil and wax.

I made up various profile sanding blocks to help the sanding process.
I didn’t take any photographs as I wasn’t sure how it would work out and just wanted to get on with it.

I’m thinking about finding a Daisy 880 and restoring it and making a stock for it out of walnut.