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I just received a very fine stock I ordered from a stock maker. The walnut is tight grained and heavily figured aaa grade he called it. The action is 90% inletted for a fine little 1910 Mexican mauser I had rebarrled in 7x57. I need a little advice on inletting this stock. I have done one once before just by luck it worked out | ||
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Purchase Dave Wesbrook's book Professional Stockmaking. This book not only has descriptions of how to inlet a stock, but exactingly explicit pictures of the descriptions. It is so much faster than typing and lasts longer too. Dennis Earl Smith Professional Member ACGG Benefactor Life NRA Life NAHC | |||
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Good advice Dennis!! Jim Kobe 10841 Oxborough Ave So Bloomington MN 55437 952.884.6031 Professional member American Custom Gunmakers Guild | |||
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Just always remember that you can ALWAYS take out a bit more wood but you can't put any back. Go slow & be patient. Inlet the trigger guard first & use action inletting screws to keep the barreled action & the trigger guard in alignment.  Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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File a draft on metal parts to be inletted like the triggerguard. The deeper you go, the tigher it all gets and it's easier to get a clean inlet...that's what an uncle taught me and I've found it to work very well. Shoot straight, shoot often. Matt | |||
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Inletting black and very sharp chisels, made for fine work, not the ones from your local hardware store. And as stated, go slowly; you will get a feel for it. Watch the grain and always control your chisels; never push one that you do not have control of when it stops. | |||
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And the best part is, it's back in print. Amazon..... | |||
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As Chic Worthing once told me..."If you don't have the patience to look at dust, scrape one shaving at a time and check for fit 100 times before it is right, just call someone." That has worked for the few I have done for myself. Larry "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading" -- Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Why inlet the triggerguard first. For the first few hundred riflestocks i did by hand, from blanks, i always sawed the silhuetshape by a bandsaw. Then Draw the centerline, inletted the barreled action. Drilled holes for the screws, and used 2 guidepins for guiding the triggerguard. After inletting, i mesured drop, cast off and toe out. Installed the recoilpad. Then i only had to shape the outercontours between the action and the recoilpad. Growing lazy, i alvays used the bandsaw to remowe as mutch Wood as possible. For the final contouring i used mostly "surform" tools, and Sharp cutting "carbody" or alu files. They cut, without compressing the Wood. Sanding was roughed with inflatable rotating cylindrical dewices. Finish sanding was done with high rev sandingmashines (first an elictrical Rockwell. Later with a pneumatic Nito Kochi Free sander FS100c) Checkering was done by hand for the guidelines, and by a mmc for the filling out. Avarage productiontime for a standard riflestock, was 6-10 hrs, for better quality 10-16hrs. Later i grew more lazy, and invested in copying routers, and cnc for inletting, then the productiontime was reduced to 1½ hrs pr stock. Sawn, inletted, contoured sanded checkered and oiled | |||
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For me there is a large difference in inletting a blank from scratch and inletting a 90% inletted blank. the 90% gives very little room for error. So like they said go SLOW you can always take off more. As usual just my $.02 Paul K | |||
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just inletted a curly maple stock a little different than usual. an old timer told me that he liked to inlet the receiver before it was barreled. I tried it just because! worked a little easier seems to me. No matter where you go or what you do there you are! Yes tis true and tis pity but pity tis, tis true. | |||
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90 minutes to completion? I can't imagine that. Sorry. A picture is worth a thousand words. Life itself is a gift. Live it up if you can. | |||
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Ayyuup! Kinda hard to imagine! I guess that would put the price of a custom stock, less the wood, at about $110??? Jim Kobe 10841 Oxborough Ave So Bloomington MN 55437 952.884.6031 Professional member American Custom Gunmakers Guild | |||
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There are some really gifted men/women in this world who can do amazing feats of skill. I have met some of them. Those of us in the trade in the US figure at least 20-60 hours to accomplish the inletting tasks asked about in this tread depending on skill/wood type/weather/etc.. FWIW Dennis Earl Smith Professional Member ACGG Benefactor Life NRA Life NAHC | |||
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