Who is your favorite stockmaker for express style stocks?

What do you pay to get a stock made, in addition to parts costs?

Here's what I paid last time:

stock duplicating: $120
inlet & finish: $250
black forend tip: $75
Install studs: $30
install recoil pad (incl. pad): $45
stock blank: $250
glass bedding included.

500 Grains,

Who did you have make your last stock. I have to get two made and am looking for a stock maker.

To answer you question. He is dead so I will not bother you with details since it would be pointless.

Thanks in advance for any information.

Todd

Save your self the time go synthetic less trouble easy to fit cheaper and they take more abuse. Now days I would only put wood on something I wasn't going to shoot.

500 Grains:
Those are great prices. I charge more for every item you listed. I get 125 for the duplication IF the customer sends the pattern and I keep it afterwards (the pattern gets damaged in the process of duplication due to the chucking up in the head and tailstock of the duplicating machine), as I have to spend time getting it ready to go in the machine.
If I have that pattern in stock (no pun intended)there is no extra charge.
Two piece stocks are quoted based on the type of gun. Most stockers will not do two piece for the simple reason that it is not twice as much work as a single...it is about FOUR times as much work, and if we screw up the wood on one half, we have to start over with a new blank so that both pieces will match(which gets mighty expensive if your cutting a rare chunk of Bengal Tiger Maple)(e-mail me for a pic of BTG on a Marlin 45/70). I just finished a couple Marlins and will charge at least 350 for the next one.
What kind of wood do you get from the guy that charges $250 for the blank?
I sell 5A highly figured blanks(Curly Maple or Walnut) for upwards of 1500, and the standard semi figured Walnut blank is $200 to $300.
Just curious, not trying to drum up business. I`m already 3 months behind. We log and saw our own Maple to keep the price down and recently put 120 blanks of killer Fiddleback, Tiger, and Quilted Maple in the Dehumidification shed, so will have blanks available for sale in July or August.
motavia@olypen.com

Sorry, we do have a half dozen hi-grade maple blanks available right now. Two or three nice quilt and a few great Tigers. Out of Walnut till I make a buying trip.