Thread: making a ruger stock with the duplicator

Have been looking at this from start. That is a fine stock you have made. Will it shoot straight?

thanks for the comments, boy i hope it shoots ok quietly confident
took another pic after about an hour of soaking in the blo


and a close up of one of the cross bolts, i installed them proud then filed them down to flush.


checkering to start soon, i hope your enjoing the progress.
greg

ooo, plenty of pics of the checkering please.
are you going to go crazy with it? (the checkering not the rifle)

checkering!
i have had enough practice now to realise a good checkering cradle is worth its weight in gold, so spent the morning making one.
that done i sat and pondered the style i wanted.
i didnt want anything too garrish or over done, this is a hunting rifle so a practical and neat style was what i wanted.
i ended up deciding on the "greghud swish" first fore end done, have to start cooking dinner so i mite make a start on the next one after i get the brats into bed.




greg

Any chance of some pics of the chequering in progress Greg ???? Would love to see how you do it - looks great.

Originally Posted by TTIT

Any chance of some pics of the chequering in progress Greg ???? Would love to see how you do it - looks great.

first thing is to cut an out line, i dress this up last as you will usualy get a few lines where you over shoot the border.
i then set a master line for each angle of the diamonds,

then its time to cut the lines, these are not very deep, you need to go back over them to cut the depth.


after i have cut these i use a 60% cutter to set the depth. when this is done i use a %90% cutter to form the diamonds.
its a long prosess and as soon as you feel you are tiring you need to stop, or you will stuff it. the panel completed on the prevoius post took about 4 or 5 hours.
i have taken a photo of the frame i made up to hold the stock whilst i checker. you will note the custom tail stock. very "darwin" solution.

greg

Well I'll buggered. I thought there was a tool to do that with. Lots of work there.

i have done a vid of the prosess of cutting checkering
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greg

That is a hell of a lot of detail. (bloody thing better shoot straight). Well done. This is one hell of a hand made rifle butt.

put the action back into the stock and ran a quick funtion test to see that the 3 shot mag box mod has worked.
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all done!

480 grain woodleighs should keep it well fed, i will need to do a little load development to get things set to go and then i will give it the final test.
greg

Great looking result Greg Thanks for the vids and pics - very interesting journey.

Noice!

I'm curious as to the tools you used for the checkering. What are they called? And where'd you source them? They could be handy in so many other applications...

And... those 480 grain woodleighs? They're hand loads?

Any gun shop will have checkering tools or here http://www.brownells.com/re

Thanks China. The last place I'd think of to look for WW tools.