Recently I had knee surgery, and was faced with at least 3 weeks of downtime. I managed to get down to the shop and looked around for
something to occupy my time….and there it was…that old piece of walnut on the back of the bench. So I decided that stock I’ve been thinking about should come to fruition.….beware…I might have gotten carried away with the pictures…
I made a quick sketch with major dimensions…
and started inletting the action…
hogged out some material under the air tube from this heavy piece of wood…
It fits…
back to the bench to pickup pertinent points…
roughed out trigger area, butt stock, and cheek piece….
sawed the tapers on the table saw….having already milled away my reference surface, I hotmelt glued on a temporary one…
sawed off the hamster…
then the fore end….I really miss my bandsaw..
there’s the pieces…also dug thru my scrap aluminum for stock for the hardware..
first thing was a trigger guard….
After milling and finishing…
Inlet the trigger guard, and milled the height adjustment hardware ….also a couple of dowel centers for locating the cheekpiece..
Roughing out the thumb hole area….
after a little refinement…
starting to work the left side…
after some refinement…
details pretty much 
right side pretty much finalized…
roughing in the cheek piece…
Cheek piece pretty much set..
Planeing in the radius on fore end..
Check for fit before final sanding…
another angle…
after final sanding…
after a couple coats of oil….
stippled, buffed, 
Done….thank you for viewing my thread….sorry it was so long. John
something to occupy my time….and there it was…that old piece of walnut on the back of the bench. So I decided that stock I’ve been thinking about should come to fruition.….beware…I might have gotten carried away with the pictures…
After milling and finishing…
Inlet the trigger guard, and milled the height adjustment hardware ….also a couple of dowel centers for locating the cheekpiece..
Cheek piece pretty much set..
Planeing in the radius on fore end..
Check for fit before final sanding…
