i have a buddy who works in a place that sells wood blanks to furnature factories. if i were to take advantage of his offer to get me "whatever i want" is there someplace to get templates to make a stock? it's for a t/c 50 hawken, percussion. got any recommendations of what type of wood i should have him get me? pics would be great. thanks
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Hawken50,
i can't help you with the templates and i looked in all the catalogs i have. as far as the type of wood for your stock you could ask 50 people and most likely get that
many answers. everyone has a favorite. i personally dont think you can beat the appearence of curly maple when it is finished properly :imo: :m2c:
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i can't help you with the templates and i looked in all the catalogs i have. as far as the type of wood for your stock you could ask 50 people and most likely get that
many answers. everyone has a favorite. i personally dont think you can beat the appearence of curly maple when it is finished properly :imo: :m2c:
snake-eyes
eace: :thumbsup: Don't know if it might help,but DGW had full size plans for a few classic longguns. What I do is locate someone who has the similar gun and get the basic dementions copied down and then custom adjust it from thease.Cherry can make a nice stock,I also like the various walnuts,Pecan,Miaquite and have even made one from a slow growing Ash.I have used Oak for butt stocks,never for a fullstock.I have to agree tiger maple makes about the prettiest stocks.If the wood is at the right price (free) :winking: then try a couple of kinds. :thumbsup:
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The Gunsmith of Grenville county shows a try stock made of plywood...the butstock and the fore part they a joined with a slot in each piece with a screw and wingnut . to use you hold it up until is fits you then lock down the wingnut and use this to trace your outline on you wood.
Here's a piece of Hard Maple I picked up at the local hardwood yard yesterday. Since it's to restock a CVA 12 ga. double the forestock is short and I can get away with nice grain on just the butt. It was cut from a piece of 12/4 so I've got enough wood for a full 3/8" castoff. I matched the shape to the 1912 Ithaca double I inherited from my father.
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Occasionally there's some nice Walnut or Cherry available there too. Right now the Walnut is only about half the price of the Maple or Cherry but they didn't have any 12/4 in stock. I've never used it for a gunstock but quite often I see some truly spectacular flame grain Yellow Birch. It's also a rather inexpensive wood. Might give that a try next time.
Dick
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Occasionally there's some nice Walnut or Cherry available there too. Right now the Walnut is only about half the price of the Maple or Cherry but they didn't have any 12/4 in stock. I've never used it for a gunstock but quite often I see some truly spectacular flame grain Yellow Birch. It's also a rather inexpensive wood. Might give that a try next time.
Dick
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Dick, thats a nice piece of wood. Being 12/4 you could make a nice sxs flint up to 12g if you use recessed plugs.
Hawken50,
Tell your buddy to get you some good hard sugar or red maple. Something that looks like this would be nice.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v186/c_laubach/Reading3/?action=view¤t=P.jpg
Tell your buddy to get you some good hard sugar or red maple. Something that looks like this would be nice.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v186/c_laubach/Reading3/?action=view¤t=P.jpg
I'd really like to do a 20 ga. flint double. Alas, I'm really not confident in my ability to silver solder barrels together. Maybe I could pick up a couple of used cartridge barrels somewhere. I've also thought of converting the CVA to flint but the breech plugs are non-standard and would require some sort of forked wrench to remove. Still contemplating it though. Winter's long in these parts so there's no hurry.
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Chris, that's another awsome rifle as usual. :thumbsup: Is that one of your hand made rifles?. It looks like it could be one of your hand forged locks. My kingdom for half your talent. Wouldn't be a fair trade, my "kingdom" ain't worth that much :boohoo: I sure do like looking at your work.
Cody,
Thanks for the complement. I did make some of the parts on this lock but not all. The internals are siler. I made the lock plate, cock and pan. At the time this picture was taken, I hadn't finished the frizzen or frizzen spring so I put a siler frizzen and frizzen spring on it so I could take it home to hunt with.
Thanks for the complement. I did make some of the parts on this lock but not all. The internals are siler. I made the lock plate, cock and pan. At the time this picture was taken, I hadn't finished the frizzen or frizzen spring so I put a siler frizzen and frizzen spring on it so I could take it home to hunt with.
