carefully, and with skill dervied from practice.
"McQualude" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I have seen pin router duplicators that can duplicate existing stocks, but
> how are custom stocks carved/cut?
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"goonair" <[email protected]> said:
> carefully, and with skill dervied from practice.
No kidding, really? I thought they just fell out of the tree trunk like
all woodworking projects.
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[email protected] (Greg) said:
> Gunstocks are cut on a pattern lathe.
thanks
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:07:34 GMT, "Henry Bibb" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>How is the inletting done? I've got this old side-plate LC Smith,
>and...
You get a 1930's copy of "The Modern Gunsmith". Two volumes, one is
general gunsmithing, the other is everything you might ever want to
know about stocking.
(except that the shotgun fitting advice is a bit duff, if you're used
to English guns)
Fri, Jan 16, 2004, 4:34am (EST+5) [email protected]
(Andy=A0Dingley)
says:
You get a 1930's copy of "The Modern Gunsmith". Two volumes <snip>
I've got 'em. Hehehehe Might could be talked into letting them
go, but not for less than $50, plus shipping. Amazon says they've got 7
available, at $59.95, and up - plus whatever shipping.
But, it's been awhile since I've looked thru them, so if I get any
offers, I retain the right to change my mind on selling.
JOAT
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you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
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Web Page Update 15 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 05:07:44 -0500 (EST), [email protected]
(T.) wrote:
>You get a 1930's copy of "The Modern Gunsmith". Two volumes <snip>
>
> I've got 'em. Hehehehe Might could be talked into letting them
>go, but not for less than $50, plus shipping.
Sounds cheap. They're a fairly common book to find, but they usually
go for a bit more than that, especially a pair.
Are yours signed ? It's one of those odd books where the unsigned
copies are the rarities.
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Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 1:07pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(Andy=A0Dingley) asks:
<snip> Are yours signed ? It's one of those odd books where the unsigned
copies are the rarities.
By the author? Not that I recall. I quite possibly signed my name
tho, that do? Price is still $50, plus shipping.
JOAT
You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the mainstream, or
you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
- Alan Ashley-Pitt=A0=A0=A0
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 15 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
"Andy Dingley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:18:54 GMT, McQualude <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >I have seen pin router duplicators that can duplicate existing stocks,
but
> >how are custom stocks carved/cut?
>
> Roughed out with a copy lathe using a router head. Then a range of
> Microplanes (one of those "super Surforms") to shape it.
>
> Bandsawn to a profile, then similar.
>
> Drawknife, then spokeshave.
>
>
> There are many other ways too.
>
How is the inletting done? I've got this old side-plate LC Smith,
and...
Henry Bibb
My Dad and I did a walnut stock for an old 218 Bee some 46 years ago when I
was about 14. We cut the blank out using a handsaw, a spokeshave for the
rough shaping, an assortment of wood rasps and lots of sandpaper and elbow
grease ... entirely done by hand, and still a beautiful stock, with carved
cheekpiece, to this day. IIRC, we may have got the thrust of the idea from a
Popular Mechanics article.
We took turns hunting with that rifle until I quit hunting about 20 years
ago. Every time I see it now I can almost hear the songs that were playing
on the radio in the barn shop at the time ...
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"Tim Douglass" wrote in message
> Slowly and carefully, by hand. There are a lot of specialized chisels,
> scrapers and rasps just for stock inletting. It takes a ton of work to
> do a good job. Someday I'll give it a try.
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:18:54 GMT, McQualude <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I have seen pin router duplicators that can duplicate existing stocks, but
>how are custom stocks carved/cut?
Slowly and carefully, by hand. There are a lot of specialized chisels,
scrapers and rasps just for stock inletting. It takes a ton of work to
do a good job. Someday I'll give it a try.
Tim Douglass
http://www.DouglassClan.com
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:18:54 GMT, McQualude <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I have seen pin router duplicators that can duplicate existing stocks, but
>how are custom stocks carved/cut?
Roughed out with a copy lathe using a router head. Then a range of
Microplanes (one of those "super Surforms") to shape it.
Bandsawn to a profile, then similar.
Drawknife, then spokeshave.
There are many other ways too.
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