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Building your own laminated stock
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<blockquote data-quote="tobnpr" data-source="post: 2024346" data-attributes="member: 68758"><p>Nothing but aesthetics IMO as to thickness of the laminate layers. </p><p>I find "strength" of the blank a mostly irrelevant consideration for this process.</p><p>WIth solid hardwood blanks, direction of the grain flowing with the wrist is critical. In a laminated layup (think-plywood) this is N/A. Other than the wrist being able to transfer recoil forces to the butt of the stock, and a forend stiff enough to not deflect I don't see the need for more. CF looks cool as an exposed layer, as well as critical for building ultralights, but throwing a layer or two into an otherwise solid wood laminated stock doesn't make sense to me, either.</p><p></p><p>I guess I'm missing something here. Other than "because I can", I don't see a rationale behind taking a perfectly good hardwood blank, sawing it into thin layers and then laminating them back together. Unless you tint the epoxy for effect, you're going to end up with a stock that looks essentially the same as the blank.</p><p></p><p>Epoxy-impregnated laminates are more stable with temp and humidity, but with a proper pillar bedding job, this consideration is also moot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tobnpr, post: 2024346, member: 68758"] Nothing but aesthetics IMO as to thickness of the laminate layers. I find "strength" of the blank a mostly irrelevant consideration for this process. WIth solid hardwood blanks, direction of the grain flowing with the wrist is critical. In a laminated layup (think-plywood) this is N/A. Other than the wrist being able to transfer recoil forces to the butt of the stock, and a forend stiff enough to not deflect I don't see the need for more. CF looks cool as an exposed layer, as well as critical for building ultralights, but throwing a layer or two into an otherwise solid wood laminated stock doesn't make sense to me, either. I guess I'm missing something here. Other than "because I can", I don't see a rationale behind taking a perfectly good hardwood blank, sawing it into thin layers and then laminating them back together. Unless you tint the epoxy for effect, you're going to end up with a stock that looks essentially the same as the blank. Epoxy-impregnated laminates are more stable with temp and humidity, but with a proper pillar bedding job, this consideration is also moot. [/QUOTE]
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