You must have gotten the last of those Camo lam stocks...I'd been wanting to order that color but now he's out. I don't mind the Java lam color, though. I'm curious about the comb height. Off the frame, the stock looks pretty high-combed but in your pic it seems to droop a little. I'll give you a call next week and we can catch up and talk stocks. :)
Sounds good. And yes, they Boyd's are definitely lower in height when it comes to check placement/eye alignment with the scope. The Revolutions are superior in that regard.
Well, that got out of hand in a hurry!! :D :D :D
I decided that rather than using the mahogany I have laying around, I'd get a piece of walnut. The smallest board I could find at my local hardwood supplier was way more than I needed but I figured that I can either make a lot of stocks or sell off inletted blanks. :)
It was all clean and nicely grained so there was enough in the board for 8 matched stock/forend sets with virtually no waste.
How did you you set up for drilling and inletting to connect to the frame? I would like to try this, in pine first, so I don't ruin a nice piece of wood.
I made several jigs to hold the raw blank at an angle. One for running the stock blank over a dado blade for the frame and another for running the forend over the dado blade. Then another for holding the stock blank at the correct angle on the drill press and a router jig for running the barrel channel in the forends. I made sort of quick and dirty jigs and used pony clamps go hold the blank in place. It was a little tricky but it worked well. I had trouble keeping a long 1/4" bit from drifting when finishing out the draw-bolt hole but mostly that worked pretty well, also. I didn't get any pics of the process but I'll see if I can stage things to get some pics to demo my process.
I realized that I should try to make a few blanks for grip sets while I'm messing with it so I may turn one of the stock blanks into a couple of grip sets.
For what it's worth, I'll probably have extra blanks to sell off, just square hunks inletted. I don't think I want to try to shape and finish all of these, though I could probably sell them once they're done. :)
Thanks, the pics would be great. I love these little guns and am just getting back into them. Family duties took me away from shooting for a while, but now that the kids are older (11 and 9) we can start shooting together. My youngest is small for her age, a little peanut, can't even get behind my old Daisy 880 and needs to use my Crossman 1322. My boy is tall and has no problem with a bb gun or a 22. But, for the stock, i just like making things.
Took me a while to work out the shape from a raw blank but I've got it pretty close to what I want. I realized too late that I'd drawn the template with not enough wood at the back of the frame so this stock looks a little skimpy. It'll still work just fine but I'll make some improvements in the shaping on the next one. I'm particularly pleased with the shape and height of the comb, not to mention being able to control the LOP and get it just right. It comes up really naturally and the cheek weld and eye relief are perfect. :)
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