Thread: Stock duplicator. Who's got one ?

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I'm a Commercial Joiner by trade, licensed builder and precision engineer.
I'm pretty confident if I could find a half decent duplicator I could get reasonable results from it

And yes I could build one ... but in which lifetime?
I have a lot on the go already.
Would buy one if I found one in NZ that was a remotely realistic price

The Hoenig/Rodman duplicator started at US$20k 15 years ago I think the Don Allen one was around the same price.
I've seen some simple plans for a duplicator and I know a master gunsmith got some pretty good results from it, but I also know he could build a pretty nice stock from the blank by hand in pretty quick time.
Given the number of stock duplicators in NZ it might be pretty hard to find one.

BTW these are straight off the duplicator and were done by someone that did awesome work, but that was what he did for a living for a number of years