Painstaking Lessons Of Info About How To Build A Rifle Stock

The real gunsmith randy selby talks us through his process on building a wood stock from a blank of high quality walnut.

How to build a rifle stock. Randy builds custom rifles on wood s. Plan & design your rifle stock. Use a chisel to carve the place for the metal part and then attach it with strong wood glue and leave it in a vise for a.

In this process, a stylus and router cut a blank of walnut into a specified pattern. Now, you will need the action screw holes drilled into your stock. At first, start with identifying the specific style of your rifle.

This whole precision rifle game is much the same way, you need a strategy and be always forward thinking. The selection of wood for a custom rifle stock is mostly a matter of personal preference, although the weight of the wood can be a determining factor, depending on how the rifle will be used. So i decided to build from a savage axis gun.

For my stock idea, my mind went toward making a chess board layout. Mark the center of the thickness of the stock, then use a drill press to drill the same diameter holes into your. I start with a freshly cut cherry tree.

I like to build laminated stocks stiffened with graphite layers. I found one used in 223 for 300$. Identify the style of your rifle.

I show how i rough out the stock blank with a chains. Shown is my.224 nisqually, which was an early small rifle. The start to making a wooden gun stock for my flintlock rifle.

He then mounted his dslr to a plate and that plate to. These are stiffer than steel barrels. If you want to make a budget stock just to see if it's something you want to try, you could experiment with uv epoxy and e cloth fiberglass.

Make a mold out of wood and line it. Scott of scottiesgunworks.com made a video demonstrating how he creates a shotgun stock from a block of wood. And after sanding and staining the wood, alex added a remote shutter release that’s operated with the trigger finger.

Typically the woods that i use are mostly the different walnuts, although i have also used koa,. I personally love these videos as it really sh. The first step was to strip down and measure the rifle followed by tracing the factory stock outline on a piece of corflute.

Attach the metal part/hardware that will eventually be mounted to the rifle. Mark demonstrates his woodworking skills by turning a chunk of walnut into a rifle gunstock. This is part 1 of the wood selection video, the second in a series about how to hand carve / make gun stocks hosted by chris k'nerr, owner of the atlanta woo.