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Gunsmithing
First custom gunstock
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<blockquote data-quote="brettman" data-source="post: 1604161" data-attributes="member: 101983"><p>A good friend taught me a lot about stock making some years back. He gave me a few walnut blanks he called utility grade but I thought they were gorgeous. Never worked any completely from a blank though. Friend knew a full time wood worker that had some kind of old pattern machine with 5 spindles on it. We'd take our factory stocks and build them up where wanted with Bondo to make a custom pattern, i.e. palm swells, raised combs, beavertail forends, vertical grips, etc. Then the wood guy w/ the pattern machine would chuck our pattern up, lay a penny between the tracer end and our pattern and rough out blanks for us. Pretty cool to watch. Tons of work left for us after the roughed stock came out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brettman, post: 1604161, member: 101983"] A good friend taught me a lot about stock making some years back. He gave me a few walnut blanks he called utility grade but I thought they were gorgeous. Never worked any completely from a blank though. Friend knew a full time wood worker that had some kind of old pattern machine with 5 spindles on it. We'd take our factory stocks and build them up where wanted with Bondo to make a custom pattern, i.e. palm swells, raised combs, beavertail forends, vertical grips, etc. Then the wood guy w/ the pattern machine would chuck our pattern up, lay a penny between the tracer end and our pattern and rough out blanks for us. Pretty cool to watch. Tons of work left for us after the roughed stock came out. [/QUOTE]
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