Not a fancy piece of wood by any stretch of the imagination, but here is one I just finished shaping,inletting and finishing from one of those pieces of wood that El Cabellero was selling awhile back. Its a bitch when you don't have any power tools to work with. The pattern is from Roger Biesen, which I modified. I also rust blued the barrel, using my basement shower as a damp box, and common steel wool washed in Dawn Dishwashing soap as my wire wheel to remove the rust.

Vapodog.

Recognise anything?

Nice stock, i still have a piece of his wood laying around. Hope it looks as nice!

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Vapodog.

Recognise anything?

It looks like an Interarms 300 Win Mag to me.....very nice work 22wrf, now take it to Carol at Ahlmans and ask her to checker it.....or try it your self.....it's not hard but takes some practice.....it takes a lot to be as good as she is and a lot more to be as good as some of the posters here.

Mine is so-so,,,,,but fun!

There's two excellent checkers locally that I know of...one is Jim Kobe and the other is Palmer in St Bonny. Both do excellent work from what I've seen.

PM me if you want more ideas.

nice work. thanks

Question, do you turn stocks for others? that would look good on my Mex Mauser, thanks

Thismortalcoil

No, I don't have a stock duplicator. Jeffe won't give me his and Im too cheap to buy one.

Actually, as I mentioned above, I had this piece of wood turned by Roger Biesen in the Biesen pattern. When it came to me it was quite rough and oversized, and I decided that I wanted a little bit more sleek looking stock, so I did quite a bit of rasping on it after I finished inletting it.

More than once I caught quite a bit of hell from the Mrs. for all of the black smudges I left on the furniture from the Jarrow's inletting black. I couldn't even count the number of times I lifted that barrled action in and out of that stock only to take away tiny wisps of wood. I bought a full set of the Gunline Barrel Bedding tools, and a Fisher double ended round scraper. I made a flat scraper out of a piece of scrap steel using the neighbors bench grinder.

By the way, that barrel was in the white when it was installed and I used Half Moon Rust Blue (I think 8 or 9 coats) to blue it. I used degreased very very find steel wool to remove the rust. It was quite spotchy at first, but after about the 6th coat it started to even out and by the 9th coat you get this very soft looking black color that really looks nice.

Kevin,
I am glad that the blank turned out to your liking. I wish I could get some more of that wood for the price I got those for. Fancy they were not but all have made some good solid strong stocks.

You think Mr. Jeff has something similar laying around?

Ya know, I have seen gaudier pieces of wood, but I can't say as I have ever seen one with a better grain flow.

Nice work and congratulations. Now if you only had a bolt for it...

Glenn

Did i turn that one, or wvfreds?

nice wood, both and either

TMC,
I can have something like that, yes.

Very nice stock and nice pattern.. I'm particular to light color wood.

Rich

22wrf, Did you lengthen/open the grip(move the grip cap back)on that Biesen pattern? Looks like a way longer grip than Biesen has on his patterns

Very nice job. Wish I could have grabbed 1 or 2 of Wes's blanks

GSP

I lengthened the grip considerably by moving things back, and also moved and changed the comb nose as well. Also, I made the comb cuts (or whatever they are called) quite a bit larger and at a different angle than what the pattern was. And I changed the cheekpiece as well.

Good job 22!

22wrf,, Way to go. That stock looks way better than that biesen pattern.

Very nice work on that grip. Bieson must have left you some wood to work with.