If so, interested in your opinion.
Thanks
Dan

I think you would be better off going with Great American. I think I heard bad comments about wenig as I remember. The owners a jerk or something.



Great American has nice wood. The 2 I got from them were inleted good/straight and square. There Goudy style is ok , And there other classic styles ,British stalker and Griffon Howe I could not get any imfo on the difference. They look the same .



For $275 I got Fancy Black walnut with nice mineral streaking and tiger stripeing the hole length.



Get it pre fitted . You will still have alot of inleting to do . mostly just sinking the barrel channel and shank some more to get the reciever to bottom out, and some trimming down inside the reciever inlet ,and cut out for a timney trigger etc. They leave everything good and tight, and cut Right.



They produce a pretty good product nice Fancy wood at a good price.



Ill buy another from them. Soon as I finish this mauser, I have a Rem. m720 enfield to stock,Ill order a stock from them again. I might go with English walnut next.

Dan

I can't directly answer your question, but this experience may help. My 6'5" neighbor shoots a 20 Ruger o/u. He always complained about the stock, and I suggested he get fitted at the local sporting clays, and let me make him one.

Well, last summer he came over with a preturned and prefitted hunk of plain black walnut from a tree his hunting partner in Neb lost. It had been sent on to Wening's with a request to make a stock. He found out it would be almost $800 for a completed stock, so he had them "begin one".

Wenig's charges, including shipping were over $500 to turn his wood into his "special" stock dimentions (nothing extraordinary, 15 3/4 lop etc). This for a piece that is clearly still wet!!!

The wood was laid out well and semi inletted about like you would expect. I was able to make a presentable stock to his dimentions with the usual trouble trying to keep from having to reblue the action or barrels. At most this was a utility grade plain flat sawed dense black american walnut, about what you might get for $100 pre inletted from any of a half dozen places.

I don't think the stock will warp much, I sealed the inside pretty well. It held up nicely for a season and I am going to get after the checkering this spring.

I suspect Wenig can make a nice stock, but I sure would want to be careful about getting a firm quote first. I think they took advangtage of this guy and I told him that.

Roger

Roger, why did you do the blank before it dried. It will change,warp and or shrink, you can guarantee it. I don't touch a blank until it has stopped losing weight for 1 1/2 to 2 years.

$500 for duplicating something to his dimensions???

Bend over.

I've gotten three of Wenig semi-inletted's, two with some custom shaping- basically just asking them to extend some dimension of one of their standard styles, but let me finish shaping that dimension. It didn't cost $500 (or even $400) and the wood I payed for is the wood I got, in all cases.

In all phone calls I was able to speak to the actual stock cutters when I had detailed questions and found them very helpful. Don't know if I ever dealt with the owner.

My experience with GAS- their bottom inletting was very crooked, top inletting off-center, their ability to get an order correct completely missing, their turnaround time very long, and no allowances for shipping back their mistakes.... would NEVER deal with them again, under any circumstances.

Wow Roger $500 $800 ... yikes

Sounds like a pick pocket scam.

I got frustrated with dealing with great american about tring to get imfo on stock styles . But for a pretty nice figured wood and good inletting for a gun hobbyest to get experience doing stock work at a resonable cost , I found G.A. to be a pretty good way to go.

Rick

Chic

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I never saw the blank. I received the piece with machine inletting and with external dimensions and shape for his long reach. The forearm is very thin and shouldn't warp much although I told him it might crack while drying. The buttstock is pretty much like any box lock, not a lot of wood on the sides of the action, and held by a threw bolt. I don't expect it to walk much.

I know the tree went down just 2 years ago, so I am sure the wood is wet. I thought it should have had a moisture content check or at least several years of drying before milling. As I received it, I was afraid if I let it dry unsupported and already milled out, it would twist so I could never use it. Bolted to the action, and epoxy sealed on the inside, I am hopeful that it may not move too much.

I think some of the expense was because he sent along four blanks and asked to have the best used. They were sent back, including excess from the blank used. Shipping and handling charges seemed excessive at $80. Even considering that, the machining was way too costly.

I do have the other three blanks, bartered for fitting and finishing the stock. They are hung in the shed, I will look at them in a few years. One of the three has a bit of figure, but the others are plain and straight. I probably will make furniture from them, and buy figured wood for stocks. If the current stock walks too much or cracks, I will make him one from this wood in 4 or 5 years.

Roger

Roger, hope it works out for you. I wish I had known it was happening and the prices charged. Bill Harvey in Maryland will use a pattern and glass your action in and change things to suit you, then duplicate it on a Hoenig & Rodman for well under what you paid. And it will inlet in a couple of hours.

I've dealt with Wenigs for M1 Garand rifle stocks. They make the most accurate, dimensionally correct M1 Garand stock on the market. $125 plus shipping. In my limited experience they have been on the up and up.

I was looking through their catalog and the quoted price for duplicating a stock off your blank was like $200. From memory now as the catalog is 500 miles away at the moment. But at the time it seemed in the ballpark.

Dan, my experience with Wenig's has been good. I've bought several semi-inletted stocks from them and as another poster mention, I alway got what I bargained for. I've seen some of their completed stocks. They look well worth the money.

I don't understand the comment about the owner being a jerk. The one time I went to Wenig's shop, the owner came out of his office to shake my hand and talk to me. Then he asked if I had time for a tour and took me through his place, introducing me to various employees along the way. I've talked to another person that had the same experience.