A little background… Last year I decided to tackle modifying the factory tupperware stocks on my three savages. I did this with the use of bondo and it worked pretty well. They were much more comfortable to shoot and have held up really well. Here is the one that I am replacing with the new stock.

Well about two weeks ago I decided I would try my hand at making a stock exactly how I wanted it. I would do this out of cabinet grade birch plywood.

The first thing I did was draw out the template of how I wanted the stock to look. I drew this on three 8 1/2"X11" sheets of card stock taped together.
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Next, cut that template out. This is what I traced onto my stock blank.
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I had bought a 2'X4'X1/2" sheet of cabinet grade birch plywood. I new that I was going to need my blank to be 5" tall so I set the fence on the table saw and ripped that down. After that I applied Tightbond III to the four pieces of plywood and clamped them together. This made up my stock blank. I then traced my template onto it.
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After that I cut a portion of the blank off to match the end of the buttstock. This just make the piece easier to work with. After that I used a jigsaw and cut out the thumb rest and hook on the butt stock.
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I then used the drill press to drill the action bolts. I used these locations and a forstner bit and chisel to inlet the magazine box.
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After that I did the same thing to inlet the recoil lug.
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Once all that was done I used the table saw again to shape the buttstock.
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Next I used a 4 ½” grinder to start shaping the grip area, adding in the palm swell. I used a sanding disk for this. You need to be careful here cause it will remove a lot of material in a hurry. It is not final sanded and shaped yet. Just roughed in .
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I then used a forstner bit and drill press again to inlet the trigger guard.
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That is as far as I have gotten with the project so far. Router bit for inletting the barrel channel and action should be here today. I will post more pics when I get done with more major steps.