Am definately going to put up some pics of laminated stock Im building for this budget project for those that might be interested. Havnt posted photos before but almost got it sussed. Maybe tomorow.
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Am definately going to put up some pics of laminated stock Im building for this budget project for those that might be interested. Havnt posted photos before but almost got it sussed. Maybe tomorow.
Cool, love a good project post on the forums
Tidy, will look great when you've finished it. Please keep us posted as you progress.
cheers
kj
Wow nice what timber did you use
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I really like the cheek rest it looks amazing.
Whats the wood?
piece of LvL Glulam beam?
Ha Ha .That there is heart kauri. Left over planking from boat we built 16 years ago, so shes well seasoned. Am surprised how light it is, weighing in at 2lb at this stage with limbsaver on.
Nice. Origin? Easier than making the laminate yourself. Most home made stocks ive seen look home made but that looks quality altho i have bung eyes and lookn at it from my phone:) do you have progressive photos?Quote:
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That is a stunning bit of work! Love laminate stocks if it weren't for the weight, especially on a ruger!
Was the ruger a SAUM already or have you had it reamed?
Thanks for the comment bigreddog. The stock will end up a few ounces lighter than the plastic one. Will be clear coating this one, not sure with what yet. You probably know that Ruger did chamber in 7mm SAUM but I have been unable to find one. The doner rifle was 270WSM and barrel is model 7 remington 7mmSAUM thats been floating around my shed for a while. Had the tenon thread turned down and fitted up by gunsmith, is ready to be picked up monday. Next job is bedding action and final finishing of barrel channel then out comes the fine sandpaper.
almost ready for bedding
Looks very nice. What finish are you going to go with? Something to make it darker?
Thanks Toby. Still chewing over type of finish but will be going for dark walnut colour.
Just what I was hoping to hear. Gotta love dark wood, can't wait to see the finished product!
Are you going to checker it?
Yes I intend to checker it but have never done it before so its going to be slow going.
Very nice job, I hope you had a lot of pleasure building it as I did mine.
Good luck with it at the range.
Thanks KC. Will be a while before it gets to the range. Progress has slowed somewhat because I decided to install pillars (easier said than done). That and bedding top and bottom now finished. Will post some more pics soon.
Are those pillars aluminum or brass?
Bronze. Turned them out of an old boat keel bolt that was laying around the shed.
Wow this looks amazing, Great job on the build, would love to do something like this myself. Where did you originally source the laminated timber? or did you glue it yourself?
Thanks William. Laminated here out of odd bits of kauri (kauri good to work) planking left over from a boat I built years ago. Used epoxy glue and clamped the lot between a couple of decent strongbacks.
I made my pillars from a flat bit of steel I had laying around and formed it around a steel rod of similar size to the screws I was using. Worked for me
Nice work! I wouldn't checker it though - Kauri doesn't have quite the right properties for a really nice checking job.
Yeah ,am having second thoughts on checks Shamus (gonna be pretty functional without). Always something I can do later anyway.
Looks great mate. Makes me want to finish mine even more
Thanks Toby. Not perfect but huge improvement on old stock, have gone off plastic a bit. Hows your beast coming along? did you sort out the inlet issues? cheers Mike.
Near enough finished (will keep up the oiling every few days though) Might make it to the range next week and see how she shoots.
Bloody how that's nice. Checkering would top it off. Thought of what design you want to do
Cheers Toby. Am in two minds on the checks. I will use it as is for now while I am working on the 300 WSM stock (will definately be checkering that)
Very nice work! Are you shooting factory rounds?
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Thanks GH and Scouser. I have some 160GR Remington corlokd factory ammo which I bought for the cases and a few handloaded 165GR Gamegings to test.
