Making Stocks?
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A couple of my stocks .....a weihrauch hw80 in a sapele stock and a fwb 124 in a birch plywood stock
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Not airgun related, but this family Krag Jørgensen (1896) was a challenge to built. (Huge compared to one of my wildcat stocks)
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I especially like the design on the left. I like the depth of the forearm in front of the trigger. Clever, and well executed.
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I've made stocks for a couple of my powder burners and most of my airguns. My first airgun stock was literally softwood boards from the floor of my shop. I split a 2x6 in half on my bandsaw, planned the pieces flat, and glued a prepared 3/4 inch softwood board to go between them. I still have it but I learned I needed to move the grip futher from the trigger for my XL hands. So I took some wood off and added some bondo. Then I painted it and still have it. I like the idea suggested back in 2020 to use softwood, at least first. I have a moisture meter so I checked the wood to be sure it was under 10% (construction lumber should be under 20% but not usually under 10% unless it has dried for awhile after leaving the supplier.
More recently I've used oak from a tree that fell down in my backyard (that is in the pictures), cherry left over from making beds, and glued up blanks from the wood from old church pews. I think the pews are luan but traditionally the wood was mahogany. I included the Prod stock in oak because somebody said early in this thread "no oak" and I wanted to show it can be used. But oak is heavy with coarse grain and I would not normally use it. This oak tree was my "killing tree" I took a lot of squirrels from. Including with this gun. The pieces are from the stump including areas that were under ground. I cut out rough slabs on my bandsaw and dried them for a couple years. I may go looking for an interesting piece of 8/4 (2 inch thick) walnut at the hardwood dealer fairly close by I've used for furniture wood. If he has 8/4 walnut there is a fair chance there is a figured piece people have been passing over. It is more difficult to work with. I might get a "deal". He sells wood rough sawn and dry so you have to know what you are looking at to find a figured piece.
I use my domino in the inletting and my router table. But a plunge router or forstener bits in a drill press could do about the same thing. I inlet first, then cut out the rough shape with my bandsaw and jig saw. I like a flapper wheel on a right angle grinder for shaping but it removes wood very quickly so you have to be careful. With the shape established I use a random orbit sander, hand sanders, and wood rasps to refine the shape and sand it smooth for finish. MY last few stocks are finished with Osmo.
More recently I've used oak from a tree that fell down in my backyard (that is in the pictures), cherry left over from making beds, and glued up blanks from the wood from old church pews. I think the pews are luan but traditionally the wood was mahogany. I included the Prod stock in oak because somebody said early in this thread "no oak" and I wanted to show it can be used. But oak is heavy with coarse grain and I would not normally use it. This oak tree was my "killing tree" I took a lot of squirrels from. Including with this gun. The pieces are from the stump including areas that were under ground. I cut out rough slabs on my bandsaw and dried them for a couple years. I may go looking for an interesting piece of 8/4 (2 inch thick) walnut at the hardwood dealer fairly close by I've used for furniture wood. If he has 8/4 walnut there is a fair chance there is a figured piece people have been passing over. It is more difficult to work with. I might get a "deal". He sells wood rough sawn and dry so you have to know what you are looking at to find a figured piece.
I use my domino in the inletting and my router table. But a plunge router or forstener bits in a drill press could do about the same thing. I inlet first, then cut out the rough shape with my bandsaw and jig saw. I like a flapper wheel on a right angle grinder for shaping but it removes wood very quickly so you have to be careful. With the shape established I use a random orbit sander, hand sanders, and wood rasps to refine the shape and sand it smooth for finish. MY last few stocks are finished with Osmo.
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