A couple blanks to choose from.
Pictures really don’t show the depth and beauty TBH
What Wood you make of this?
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A couple blanks to choose from.
Pictures really don’t show the depth and beauty TBH
I'd probably make a mess of if because I don't have the skills/talent to do anything else with it.
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They are all highly figured walnut I believe. For a rifle with significant recoil straight grain in the forend is desirable so it can withstand the recoil. But for most air rifles kick is very minimal.
I've made several stocks but none with wood that nice. I made a stock of scrap softwood first for my P35s. I modified it after final shaping with bondo to get my trigger finger in the right position on the trigger. Then I made a pattern from the softwood stock for the next 4. You might want to do that before cutting up one of those very nice blanks. While inletting is not my favorite part I always do it first to have better reference surfaces. Once a stock is all curvy it's harder to do the inletting.
I've made several stocks but none with wood that nice. I made a stock of scrap softwood first for my P35s. I modified it after final shaping with bondo to get my trigger finger in the right position on the trigger. Then I made a pattern from the softwood stock for the next 4. You might want to do that before cutting up one of those very nice blanks. While inletting is not my favorite part I always do it first to have better reference surfaces. Once a stock is all curvy it's harder to do the inletting.
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Duplication is the way to go. Then I can rearrange things with bondo, etc.
Probably make tulip poplar patterns from stocks I like first. Then I already have the inletting and basic shape.
Have to see where I go with it. It started with talking to a stock builder about duplicating for me and now he’s teaching me.
I have a couple beater stocks I like already. To make patterns from
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Made a dummy to use to Acraglas the back of a pre safety R7 stock so I can use it for later HW30/R7 pattern. I like the early R7 stock and wanted one in nice walnut. That’s what started me on this whole thing. I’m doing the R7 partly for my wife and probably for me too. It fits her pretty well.
HW30 sitting in the Acraglas modified pre safety stock.
I like the style of it
HW30 sitting in the Acraglas modified pre safety stock.
I like the style of it
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I envy your project. The prettiest stock I have is on an Italian 20 ga sxs double that was made to my specs about 30 years ago. The quail are gone and I don't hunt anymore, but the shotgun will stay with me. Good wood that is properly crafted is something to value highly. And like good leather boots, harder to find each year. Have fun.
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Karl, nice wood.
Where are you getting your blanks. If you don’t mind me asking. I’m low on wood.
Where are you getting your blanks. If you don’t mind me asking. I’m low on wood.
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