Been working about two hours at a time on the inletting. I have to do it this way as patience just so happens to be a virtue I was born without and this is one of those gotta have it jobs. I'm no Old World craftsman for sure, just a hillbilly with a chisel and file doing the best I can.
You can see in the first Before picture the JB weld patch my titewad grandad did when he knocked a chunk out of the stock climbing through a fence. He did a fair job and it works but has just bugged me ever since. So I finally decided to try and restock it. This piece of wood is looking better and better the more I work with it, Beautiful piece. I plan on using some alkanet root mixed in some linseed oil for a hand rubbed finish. I will post an occasional photo of my progress for anyone interested in this sort of thing.
The stock inletting from the maker was not terrible. I can't complain, just a little at a time. The overal dimensions of the thing were atrocious. The whole stock was 1/8" to big in every direction. I assume they coat the pattern for the duplicator with some kind of bedding to give you some to play with. But man this is one heck of a LOT of filing, sanding. Front is down to fairly close. I still have about a 1/16 to take off the back where the rifle butt attaches. The curvature on the back was all wrong and too radical. I got it closer to shape. That's the problem with this kind of job, once the wood is gone you don't get to put it back.
You can see in the first Before picture the JB weld patch my titewad grandad did when he knocked a chunk out of the stock climbing through a fence. He did a fair job and it works but has just bugged me ever since. So I finally decided to try and restock it. This piece of wood is looking better and better the more I work with it, Beautiful piece. I plan on using some alkanet root mixed in some linseed oil for a hand rubbed finish. I will post an occasional photo of my progress for anyone interested in this sort of thing.
The stock inletting from the maker was not terrible. I can't complain, just a little at a time. The overal dimensions of the thing were atrocious. The whole stock was 1/8" to big in every direction. I assume they coat the pattern for the duplicator with some kind of bedding to give you some to play with. But man this is one heck of a LOT of filing, sanding. Front is down to fairly close. I still have about a 1/16 to take off the back where the rifle butt attaches. The curvature on the back was all wrong and too radical. I got it closer to shape. That's the problem with this kind of job, once the wood is gone you don't get to put it back.
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