Thread: Rifle stock

I would suggest that you go to at least 600 grade otherwise you will see all of the sanding marks from the 240. You probably wont be able to 600 in a normal paper but you can in wet and dry paper.

Make sure to wet the stock now and then as the wood fibres will lift and you will need to sand it again until it really feels smooth. Use meths to wet it as it evaporates real fast unlike water

Originally Posted by Chop3r

I would suggest that you go to at least 600 grade otherwise you will see all of the sanding marks from the 240. You probably wont be able to 600 in a normal paper but you can in wet and dry paper.

Make sure to wet the stock now and then as the wood fibres will lift and you will need to sand it again until it really feels smooth. Use meths to wet it as it evaporates real fast unlike water

Thanks chop that sounds like legit advice. What website sells it? @ebf pretty sure you will know where to get some

After you could use 0000 steel wool over your stock..perhaps.
Some hardware stores (bunnings, mitre 10 etc) sell good range of very fine sandpaper

Yep thats another option, although the steel wool does its best to get stuck in the wood fibres and you can make one hell of a mess of a clean stock trying to pick them out

That hardware store in Wairoa, cant remember the name but it has all sorts of shit in there. It fronts onto the road by the river

hammer hardware. Sweet as will go check it out later

Toby, get a fine spray / mist bottle with water to raise the grain. Let the water dry off before sanding. Sand with the grai direction. I use 150 then 240 then 400.

Rather than steel wool (which get embedded in the fibres and rusts) get some synthetic steel wool. I normally use the 3m pads, grey is about 600grit and white is around 1000 grit. They last a lot longer, and you can rinse them...

Get all the scratches from the previous grit out before moving to next higher grit. Look at the stock in different light and different angles to find all the scratch marks...

Looking good

What size limb saver do I get? Want something around 125mm X 40mm anyone know of a size chart I had a quick look on google but didn't spot anything

Here is a link Toby all in inches though
https://www.limbsaver.com/technical-support/#recoilpads

2.5 CMs to the inch near enough for a dressmaker cum wood worker

Originally Posted by stug

Here is a link Toby all in inches though
https://www.limbsaver.com/technical-support/#recoilpads

Thanks stug,

Going off my converting I want a small grind to fit pad

So the bits didn't turn up today hopefully tomorrow so I can get underway but spent a hour or 2 refining the butt a little more and gave it a quick sand up to get a good look at the grain, I quite like the way its coming out so far. Woods macrocarpa if I didn't say before.

I cleaned the bench which btw most of that mess was not mine

Its looking real good Tobes, I would trim the grip cap back a bit still, but thats just me!

Oh and it needs some crossbolts!

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Its looking real good Tobes, I would trim the grip cap back a bit still, but thats just me!

Oh and it needs some crossbolts!

I've come to not mind crossbolts

trim back as in make it thinner?

Package is on its way Toby. NZ post refused to take it so I had to charter a private delivery company which means it is going to cost you $156.68 unfortunately. Sorry about that.