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duplicating a shotgun stock?
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with all this new technology with the use of the dnc machines etc. can a not so common sxs side lock shotgun stock be duplicated from just the receiver.
 
Posts: 237 | Registered: 14 December 2009Reply With Quote
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Yes, with a 3d scanner and 5 axis cnc mill, you certainly can make stocks. They will cost a lot more than anyone wants to pay for a stock; hence the use of the simple, manual, pantographs for stock making. Now, if you are making them by the hundreds, then it becomes cost effective. Maybe I am talking to the wrong places though.
 
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I was just curios as I have a early W.C. Scott early sxs hammer gun with the stock missing and was hoping for a solution to replace it other than having a pro do it. thank you for the feed back.
 
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I watched a guy clay press a stock once. He had a lump of really stiff clay and pressed in the action 1/16" at a time and just used dental looking tools to scrape away every point of contact until he had a reasonable rough in, then duplicated it by hand with a router and set of chisels until he got a reasonable fit. Took weeks.

Call around to some of the bigger shops and see if anyone has a take off or even broken stock you could buy and graft to a duplicator or pattern stock.


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Perhaps you could contact the company and see if by a long shot they could locate a stock for you?

http://www.webley.co.uk/Pages/shotguns/shotguns.html
 
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Suggestion only, but would give Wenig's, stock mfg. firm, a call and discuss. Their labor rates are fair, but price does get into the stratosphere when high grade wood is involved.
Worth a phone call would say.
 
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If you do not have the original stock to duplicate; just have the bare metal, then hand fitting a stock to a classic double will cost at least $1000, plus the cost of wood. Even at low hourly rates, it takes a lot of those hours to do it right. I never make any money on work like this as no one can afford it.
 
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Doug Turnbull and his crew do amazing things replacing old sxs stocks....I think they are the best.....but as mentioned above, it's customer work, and not cheap. Even with a duplicator it's gets pricey. The duplicator only roughshod it out. Still a lot of hand fitting and finishing


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Posts: 2605 | Location: Western New York | Registered: 30 December 2003Reply With Quote
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If he has no original stock a duplicator won't help
Manual fitting and shaping $$ will eat him alive


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You give Donnie at Show Me Gun Stocks a call does a lot of doubles work at 1-660-438-4568, finished several for me nice work
 
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This guy makes it look easy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfZSB2JzJA


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Posts: 395 | Location: Florida's Fabulous East Coast | Registered: 26 February 2004Reply With Quote
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http://www.wenig.com/

This is where I would go. I don't know his prices for off the wall stuff but around/about 3k for normal guns and plain wood. Just have to decide how bad you want it.
 
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