This has been a project on my bench for a while. I designed it pre Helene, then came Milton. Shop had 42” of the Gulf of America in it…lost just about everything I couldn’t get up. Anyway…here goes. Aquired a nice blank, and a chunk of Ebony…drew up my design. 
Designed, and fabricated a mini chassis so I would have a monolithic unit to inlet…
worked great!…
fit, and epoxied fore end tip…
created some reference surfaces..
milled air tube channel, and joint bridge..
inlet action, milled fore end slots, installed joint bridge…
joint bridge installed…
sawed off hamster, roughed trigger hole, formed grip angle, butt stock profile…
sawed off cheek piece..
designed, fabricated, inlet trigger guard. Turned hamster adjusting pins, pillar bedded action..
fabricated, installed hamster height adjustment hardware..
fabricated, inlet cheek piece adjustment hardware…
fabricating butt spacer…
done…
installed…
roughing stock thickness..
working in shape…
other side…
a little farther along….
other side..
shaping butt stock profile..
further along..
other side…
pattern routed action cheeks…
hogged away waste..
forming cheek piece…
further along…
laid out fair curve for forend..
sawed it off…
roughing in fore end…
a little further along…
flushed butt spacer…
fabricated, inlet, installed front sling swivel attachment…
fabricated, fit, thumb rest…
final fit before finish sand…
finish sanded…
first coat of oil….
finish done…layout for grip texture/ stippling…
textured…
done….. they only let you attach 40 files…guess I got carried away..sorry. Will make another post. John
Homemade/Handmade stock: Build Process
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall in your shop and watch you work. Thanks for sharing and connecting us through some of the processes. Fascinating work.
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Well……you’d better like the heat…no A/C in the shop, and you have to really dig Tom Petty…oh yeah…I hate when flys land on me when I’m working. Other than that…you’re welcome anytime! John
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I wish I knew for certain….my Dad did a lot of stock work, and it was in the stuff I kept when he passed away. They are little glass bottles with whittled wood stoppers, labeled stock oil. Some custom brew he made up. He would have loved to show me how to do this kind of work, but I was into motorcycles, girls, and pulling the trigger, so I’m figuring it out myself. Anyway….many coats applied a drop at a time, and sanded in thru many grits of wet/ dry paper. After the grain was filled, I knocked down the gloss with 4f pumice, and a soft bristle brush. Then brought up the sheen with rotten stone,rubbed out with mineral oil. Thanks for your kind comment. John
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