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<blockquote data-quote="chalkeye" data-source="post: 1140373" data-attributes="member: 88093"><p>Redesigned the process & stock to remove all the dicking around difficult, expensive materials:</p><p><img src="http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/processps-1024x576.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Ultimately this means some expensive, difficult dicking around with a CNC, due to having to re-datum the material once you've flipped it over. Nothing wildly challenging though.</p><p></p><p>I also started getting too excited at this stage about how it would look if I spent another thousand bucks on rifle accessories too:</p><p><img src="http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/angleallPS-1024x576.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>You can see here the lattice structure I looked at for the butt. This area represents the largest unnecessary volume of wood on a traditional stock - though many are bored out, there's still a heap of material that doesn't need to be there. If you look at the area through the pistol grip, this is the most narrow part (and most common failure part) in the majority of rifle stocks, so all that extra mass does nothing.</p><p></p><p>Similarly the forend doesn't need to be super solid, as it really only serves as a resting surface or bipod & sling attachment point (when you have a floated barrel).</p><p></p><p>That was my thinking anyway, so I pressed on with making up some plywood blanks for the first prototype. It proved remarkably difficult to find a competent CNC routing guy who could work with 3d files, but eventually it got underway:</p><p><img src="http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCN0945-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCN0986-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chalkeye, post: 1140373, member: 88093"] Redesigned the process & stock to remove all the dicking around difficult, expensive materials: [IMG]http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/processps-1024x576.png[/IMG] Ultimately this means some expensive, difficult dicking around with a CNC, due to having to re-datum the material once you've flipped it over. Nothing wildly challenging though. I also started getting too excited at this stage about how it would look if I spent another thousand bucks on rifle accessories too: [IMG]http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/angleallPS-1024x576.png[/IMG] You can see here the lattice structure I looked at for the butt. This area represents the largest unnecessary volume of wood on a traditional stock - though many are bored out, there's still a heap of material that doesn't need to be there. If you look at the area through the pistol grip, this is the most narrow part (and most common failure part) in the majority of rifle stocks, so all that extra mass does nothing. Similarly the forend doesn't need to be super solid, as it really only serves as a resting surface or bipod & sling attachment point (when you have a floated barrel). That was my thinking anyway, so I pressed on with making up some plywood blanks for the first prototype. It proved remarkably difficult to find a competent CNC routing guy who could work with 3d files, but eventually it got underway: [IMG]http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCN0945-1024x768.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.rborrett.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCN0986-1024x768.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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