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posted 25 December 2021 04:43
I just finished this and delivered to the customer in time to put under the Christmas tree. It is a 7x57 on a VZ24 action with 20 inch barrel. I used Duane's bottom metal and trap-door grip cap, a Glen Fewless butt plate, and home-made forend cap. The metalwork, rust bluing and stockwork was by me, checkering by Pam Wheeler, and engraving by Mike Gouse.

I want to give special thanks to Steven Hughes (SDH) for helping me with some of the fitting of stock metal and shaping, and lots of encouragement. We did this work during one of Steven's Stockmaking seminars a couple years ago.











 
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posted 25 December 2021 08:09Hide Post
Well done, very nice job all round. Have you got a shot of the LHS?
 
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posted 25 December 2021 08:19Hide Post
Here is the left side of the butt.

 
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posted 25 December 2021 08:29Hide Post
A very well executed rifle! Cool gun.


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posted 25 December 2021 08:55Hide Post
Beautiful Wayne just beautiful.

I will get in touch in the new year. Thinking we build a left handed ruger into a full stock. I have a ruger African 375 in my collection.

Thanks,

Mike
 
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posted 25 December 2021 08:56Hide Post
VERY nice! a work of art in a classic calibre. I'm sure your customer is having a very Merry Christmas indeed.


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posted 25 December 2021 17:43Hide Post
Very nice!!
 
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posted 25 December 2021 18:14Hide Post
No boxes that long under my Christmas tree, hmm.
 
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posted 25 December 2021 18:41Hide Post
Beautiful, Wayne. Merry Christmas!
 
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posted 25 December 2021 19:23Hide Post
Wow! Terrific-I wouldn't complain if I found one like that under my tree!

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posted 25 December 2021 20:21Hide Post
Wayne, It looks great as I told you it would. The mid-length schnable on the forend worked out quite nicely and that cap you made helps gives it a very long and lean shape. The rust bluing is lovely and matches perfectly on all parts. It is a lovely rifle, in a great cartridge and it was my pleasure to work with you in my shop!


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posted 25 December 2021 21:56Hide Post
Fair piece of timber.
And by that I mean fantastic.
 
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posted 25 December 2021 22:03Hide Post
Blanks in that length are hard to find to begin with, and finding one so nice was a huge bonus. It was one of those blanks where the more you cut into it the better it got.
 
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posted 25 December 2021 22:28Hide Post
Just beautiful!
 
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posted 26 December 2021 05:42Hide Post
Love when work like this is shared!
 
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posted 27 December 2021 03:39Hide Post
who is the three position safety by?


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posted 27 December 2021 04:54Hide Post
The safety is from Recknagel as are the sights and scope mounts.

The trigger is a Timney.

Don Markey made the bolt handle blank, which I massaged quite a bit.
 
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posted 27 December 2021 07:45Hide Post
how's it shoot?
 
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posted 27 December 2021 17:01Hide Post
It shot well.
 
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posted 27 December 2021 20:53Hide Post
A friend of mine took Steve's class and I must say the level of design and execution went WAY up. Good influence, good job by all
 
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posted 27 December 2021 20:54Hide Post
Really nice work. Really nice wood too.

I’ve always wanted to do full length stock, never built one. Never done a two piece either. Started on a Savage 99 but lost interest.


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posted 27 December 2021 22:37Hide Post
Stunningly beautiful!
THANKS for sharing with us.

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posted 29 December 2021 04:17Hide Post
Oh my!!!!

I love that wood!

Is that french walnut?
 
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posted 29 December 2021 04:54Hide Post
It is California English. Some call it French.
 
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posted 29 December 2021 05:33Hide Post
A classic beauty, with long and lean lines, like a purebred greyhound.

I love it.


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Very nice work..


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Wow is all I have to say.
 
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posted 07 January 2022 02:34Hide Post
I don't have words enough to describe how beautiful that is.
Everyone involved in that project has incredible talent.
 
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Spectacular...love the Eichenlaubgraveur...very German.
 
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posted 27 January 2022 20:46Hide Post
I just ran across these pics of Wayne's stock being shaped in my Stockmaking Seminar. They show the intermediate schnable that adds a lot of class to the stock. Not an easy thing to accomplish, and quite elegant.


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posted 27 January 2022 21:00Hide Post
2019 Stockmaking Seminar: That's Wayne on the left and SDH on the right. Ruger #1 and Mauser shaped from the blank. Zack of Black's Forge with the Mauser


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