here's a link to my pantograph on my website

stock duplicator

nice piece of turkish from fla30-06 for my 550 express




browningguy's ultralight 280 on on m-98
claro

Man, it doesn't take you long to do a stock!

Jeffe-

Don't make me post a picture of the stock that *I* got from you on the Shilen!!!

Jeffe,

Dang big guy, you got it goin on. Turn some more and take some more pics.

That is really good.

Jeffe

I like the design of both stocks. May I ask where you got the patterns?

Billy.. thanks bud.. i might be sending the barreled action to you to inlet

Forrest,
you'll see it tomorrow

CB...
remember, i SOLD you the shilen...and GAVE you the butcherblock stock that i didn't make...

heh... and HOW does it shoot again

Craftsman,
the fiddleback one is a friend of mine's mauser pattern stock.. the other is a highly modified boyds/jrs classic...

cut and chopped and channeled for me and my high recoil beast

You can send it to me or I can come to your shop and Harry, Keith and myself set in lawn chairs and drink beer give pointers and watch you and Forrest whittle on that stock

Billy,

Good idea, I could bring some form of dead pig for us to chew on. While watching Jeffe's "ELECTRIC BEAVER naughing on some walnut. A gathering with no beat upon shoulders or recoil induced headaches. A novel idea.

Hog Killer

Jeffe-Can you carve a big ole thumbhole
stock for a big State Arms action,from a pattern?It would be over 2.5 inches wide.Ed

Jeffe-

You SURE you don't want pics of it? It might boost business...

(You know I'm just teasing you...)

CB,
i know you are kidding, but what i am scared of is that you would post the pics of the groups first, then the stock... and then everyone in the world wants that FUGLY piece of rail road tie..... and i still didn't make it...

heh, i told you it was the ugliest stock i have ever seen.... then ups using it for a bridge trussle didn't help

Billy, Forrest, Keith, Gene, Harry... and just about anyone else what want's to drive to porter...

--Billy, reckon you can finish an inletting and rotten stock seminar in a day? we certainly can sit around my shop, mess with stuff, go in the house when it gets too hot for the fans to cool us off.... drink, eat, and bs...

and we'll forsure not have recoil induced trauma that day, as the city kinda frowns on in town discharge....

in fact, i might have a stock or 2 that need to be duped.

jeffe

First off, my seminar would mainly cover how to cover up screw-ups good enough so most won't notice, cause I aint that good.

As far as doing it in a day, depends on how much beer I drink.

I need to get off my ass and build a mauser pattern with some drop at the heel and we could turn this piece of English I have that might be dry.............or we could drink enough and not worry about it being dry or not and blame it on the drinking

Another "Seminar of the Masters" in the making?

you have mail.

Jeffe - Count me in on this "dream team" seminar! I'll even bring my own lawn chair and beer.

If its a "Seminar of Masters" I guess I'll have to be the Master Bubba since I have no other skills to contribute except sitting and drinking.

A couple of questions if I may:-

1. Is the master damaged at all in the process?

2. Can it partialy inlet barrel channels and actions?

3. If no to 1, yes to 2, can I fly over with master and blank and join in

I sure as heck don't qualify as a master of anything, if I drink more than three beers I need to take a nap, but I do like to set in lawn chairs.

On a serious note, I think its pretty amazing someone can build a duplicating machine in a home shop and make it work, I think Jeffe has really accomplished something.

THanks guys..

sorry to say, the master certainly is altered during the process. at a minimum, the finish is "burnished" to use a word chic said about it.. and most of my pattern stocks have a 1/4" cone drilled in the nose. that part can be worked around, but the stylus will mark the finish... and, if i am being stupid and taking too big a bite, it WILL mark the pattern...

I don't think i am yet ready to tell someone "yep, just refinish it after".... i've got some more learning to due with it. and lots depends on what the pattern is made from. remember, I call it a "pattern" not a "master stock".....

it will at least partially inlet, and I am working to get that better/closer on each stock..

thank billy... without Les' groundwork on it, and 3 months of headscratching followed by 10 months of build/modify, it wouldn't be anything but a "dang, i wish I had one of those.. and i might could build one" pipedream. .

kinda like my cnc and some other pipedreams... the first step to finishing them is starting them

jeffe

nice pattern stock!!!

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/BidHistory.cfm?ItemNum=6664334

Turning Party
6-4-05

Please email me off list,
jeffeosso@weaponsmith.com

if you would like to come up for a blank turning, filing and sanding.....

I have a victim, er customer, who is game to have his stock turned and worked, while you lot watch.

Make sure you brng ear protection.. not from the ouoter, but from me cussin and fusin!!!

Who wants to come?

jeffe

jeffe,

What time do you want to start the show?

I plan on being there.

Hog Killer

I'll be there but I have to be back in Houston at about 6:00PM. What time?

Would like to start no latter than 10... it's going to be hot be 2... 9 would be better, but that will depend on who's coming and who's made it so far.... should be done tot he point of hiding in the shade by 12-1.

jeffe

jeffe, it appears that you are takeing all the wood off the blank after it was rough trimmed to shape. I will search and see if I still have a photo of a blank that I sent to Saeed. If not possibly we can get him to post a photo or email it to you. You can save a large chunk of time with the method. You start off by raising the bottom of a 3/8" cutter by about 3/16" above the stylus surface. You then make cuts all around the blank to that depth with the end of the cut intersecting the start. You make these cuts every 1 1/2" from the butt to the tip. You then take the blank off the machine and using a band saw, cut to those surfaces you created. Once you pruned off that major excess wood, it goes back on the duplicator and you can cut the rest with the cutter.

This was George Hoenigs method to reduce all the oversize rather than chew it off on the duplicator. Hope this helps.

Count me in, I'll be comming back from Rooster fishing in Mexico the tue before and have a presention to do in Houston on Wed at my Houston office. But have no problem driving back up Sat morning. Sounds like fun.........almost as much fun as when the hogs ate my little brother

Oh I forgot.......just called my wife and got a kitchen pass to come and play.

Billy, better think twice. All those newly turned blanks will need final inletting by a pro, and from what I hear YOU DA MAN!

Fla,

I aint that good, I've got lucky a time or two. Harry and I have a plan to set in lawn charis and drink beer make smart ass comments, dring beer and cut up. I'm a light weight drink three beers need to go take a nap guy. don't let me drink and get close to wood with tools in my hands

I'll try to make it for the party, just have to find out if I've got to go to Mobile that week or not.

So Billy, can I have the rest of your beers?

harry,
long as it's a low carb beer, i'll split what's left...

heh...

that cheap sob got me to spend 70 bucks on chisels today...

jeffe

Can some one take some video footage to show the guys who can't attend? I'm check the calender & I have to work that weekend!

Doug,
i bet there's pleny of pics and a couple vids... aint nothing but, as keith calls it, an electic beaver..... now, i was thinking an electic BEAVER would be a fine thing to have, and rent it out for 100 bucks a ride...

and all i wound up with is a pantograph!!!!!!

Jeffe

Jeffe
I'll be there. I have spent years researching the art of sitting in a lawn chair and drinking
beer. My experence could be useful.
gene

Gene, based upon your vast military experience we are assuming you will bring a bunch of Army beer.

Wow, this sounds like a true redneck gathering. All you need is a brisket and a couple of wild pork shoulders on a BBQ Pit and you'll be set.

First off........Getting Jeffe to spend money is like pulling hens teeth.........by the way.......whats a henweigh.

As far as the Electric Beaver, I would really like to play with it, but my taste is so expensive I would want to practice on a high dollar piece of Turkish.............so I better stay in the lawn chair

quote:

Originally posted by tiggertate:
Gene, based upon your vast military experience we are assuming you will bring a bunch of Army beer.

Harry,

Gene is a JARHEAD, but if he could find an army supply dump, he would bring army beer. This would be in the best of Marine Corp tradtion.

Hog Killer

Maybe some San Migel from the PI!

Jeffe - Have you posted a map or directions to your shop? Is the start time 9 or 10?
BTW, I found some take-off wood stocks in the attic. I thought I had tossed them when I moved last year. You want 'em?