FX DRS Custom Wood Stock Development.

[Loren]

I have been working on a new stock for my FX DRS for a while as time as allowed. Getting closer to making wood chips on it. One of my development steps is printing the stock design and checking ergonomics and appearance before I CNC program and cut wood. Because of printer size limits the PLA stock is printed in sections and just glued together. It works for what I need it to do.

CAD model.

The 3D printed PROTOTYPE.

What do you think? Like the lines??

 

[Chukar60]

I like the form of it.
What wood are you going to use in the finished product?

 

[Loren]

I like the form of it.
What wood are you going to use in the finished product?

Thanks, colored birch laminates, walnut, some more exotic laminates. Have something cool for the first one, that will be a real one of a kind.

 

[Ranchibi]

Very nice lines! Can't wait to see the wood version .

 

[Leatherman]

Very nice. Please follow up with pictures of finished wood stocks.

 

[almost sbd]

Nice design, should be solid on the bags !

 

[Loren]

I glued this up today for the stock. Walnut, Black, Red, Curly Hard Maple, Red, Black, Walnut.

The black and red are dyed birch. I am hoping it will create a pretty cool stock.

The curly maple has some fabulous figure to it.

 

[OneAcreFarmer]

Anxiously waiting until I can use this emoji:

 

[Vana2]

Very nice!

How did you dye the birch?

I want to make a spacer to increase the LOP and a custom grip for my HM1000x out of birch plywood. The natural birch, finished with Polyurethane is a nice golden yellow but I wouldn't mind adding a bit of color.

I have a couple of curly maple stock blanks. One is for a sport stock for my FWB 300, the other I was thinking, maybe for the DRS. Don't know about adding wood to the DRS as I do like it's light weight with the synthetic stock.

Looking forward to seeing your finished stock!

Cheers!

 

[Leatherman]

A solid block of maple with that type of curl I call flame curl. I often thought it would look cool to dye it with an alcohol’ based red dye so it would look like it was on fire.

 

[Loren]

Very nice!

How did you dye the birch?

I want to make a spacer to increase the LOP and a custom grip for my HM1000x out of birch plywood. The natural birch, finished with Polyurethane is a nice golden yellow but I wouldn't mind adding a bit of color.

I have a couple of curly maple stock blanks. One is for a sport stock for my FWB 300, the other I was thinking, maybe for the DRS. Don't know about adding wood to the DRS as I do like it's light weight with the synthetic stock.

Looking forward to seeing your finished stock!

Cheers!

Thanks, the dyed birch comes from CWP-USA in Maine.

 

[Loren]

I did a little test shooting with the 3D printed stock and felt the trigger reach was just a wee bit short. I pulled the action forward just a bit and really improved the feel. I also made some small changes to the relief cut for the cocking handle. Using 3D CAD models and 3D printing prototypes sure speeds up making these small refinements versus cutting them in wood.

 

[Loren]

Started making some chips.

I prepped the blank and have it mounted on the CNC.

First Op is to face of the top of the blank over the butt for later operations on the adjustable cheek riser block. First clear look at the laminate stackup.

Next Op is to part off the cheek riser block.

I have about 60% of the CNC programming completed. There is still a lot of detail tool paths to create for the inletting.

 

[dgeesaman]

I have been working on a new stock for my FX DRS for a while as time as allowed.

What do you think? Like the lines??

Cool project. How did you work out the required inlet shape - were you able to just use calipers and model the key features?

Me personally, I prefer smooth lines on the rear of the gun but nothing so curvy that it won’t shoot well from a rear bag. The beaver tail foreend looks great. I like left- or right- hand specific grips and a clear place to put my thumb. I’m picky I admit.

David

 

[Loren]

Cool project. How did you work out the required inlet shape - were you able to just use calipers and model the key features?

Me personally, I prefer smooth lines on the rear of the gun but nothing so curvy that it won’t shoot well from a rear bag. The beaver tail foreend looks great. I like left- or right- hand specific grips and a clear place to put my thumb. I’m picky I admit.

David

Thanks! Measuring with calipers, radius gages, telescope gages...etc. I also recently bought a laser scanner which is helping too.

Scan of the rifles action.

 

[dgeesaman]

Cool! Which scanner? I have a Creality Raptor3d and while I haven’t used it on a rifle action/stock project yet, I expect it will serve very well that way.

 

[Loren]

Cool! Which scanner? I have a Creality Raptor3d and while I haven’t used it on a rifle action/stock project yet, I expect it will serve very well that way.

The Revopoint MetroX. I am very impressed with it.

 

[Loren]

Taking shape.

 

[MongooseV8]

Wow you do some really nice work. Personally I would ditch the forend finger grooves and go with either a rounded or angled section instead. Less machine time and I think it looks so much cleaner that way, finger grooves never fit anyway.

ETA: I would also trim the top edge of the forend to a rearward angle, and give the forend less taper like a Manners stock. The rear stock angle could also be stretched out further to allow better fit on rear bag, and give finer elevation adjustment.

 

[Vana2]

Thanks for sharing the pictures!

Looking good!