Homemade Kydex Cheek Rest

[DrThunder88]

I've never been a fan of Savage's comb height on their factory stocks, and even Boyds leaves me a little too low on all but the lowest scopes. The simplest, permanent solution I could find to fix this is a Karsten Kydex cheek rest. There are other options out there like taping stuff to stuff or strapping this to that, many of which are cheaper and easier to install, but prior experience made me wart of those approaches. And trust me, I looked hard at them; "Cheap" and "Easy" are my middle names (I suspect my confirmation wasn't in a real Catholic church).

Being cheap, I decided $60 was too much and resolved to make my own cheek rest. The Karsten design looked so simple that it seemed immediately accessible to me. Plus, I had already accumulated some Kydex from my stint as a ham-fisted knife maker. I went about designing and bending.

Anyway, here's a video of my process: LINK

Supplies:
Kydex sheet
Two arm thumb nut

[J.Baker]

I find most every factory stock has insufficient comb height these days and I'm Mr. Average. Then again, most of the stocks on the market were designed back when the rifles were still offered with open sights and a lower comb was appropriate for them. Now open sights on a factory rifle are almost non-existent, yet the combs remain at the same height which is to low for use with a scope.