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Catapult Kid · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: My Stock Making adventure!

April 17 2009
I picked up a battered little 02 winchester on wendsday as a project gun, the stock was busted in about 4 or 5 places and I pieced it back together and bedded the barrel channel to remove some play and it shot real accurate despite the fairly rough bore. Last night I got the wild idea to make a new stock for it since it shot so good and the fairly simple design. After the stock is finished I plan or refinishing all the metal but we won't get ahead of ourselves.

I didn't have a suitable chunk of walnut but had a beautiful wild cherry board so I went that route. I have spent 4 hours on the stock building project so far and the inletting is nearly finished, then I can start on the rough contouring of the stock.

Here are some of the steps i've taken so far.

stock traced out on the board-

cut out on the bandsaw-

Partially inletted using a combination of a drill press with a 1/2" endmill (very tricky to use freehand) and trued up with a dremel. the narrower portion I inletted with a hammer and chisel fabricated from a flathead screwdriver-

Next (not pictured) I measured and drilled the trigger hole and the hole for the takedown screw (also countersunk the takedown screw hole)

I roughed in the barrel channel with a combination of gouges, and a 3/4" drum sander hooked in a hand drill. Then I wrapped the barrel in 60 grit sandpaper and trued the channel up.

Thisi s how it looked when I came in from the shop. Still needs some final fitting to the channel and the next major thing will be drilling the trigger pin hole after that it's all cake because i'm very framiliar with beveling and shaping. The inletting was the hardest part for me becuase of my lack of a mill.

April 18 2009

Did a bit more work on it today about another 4 hours work netted ready for rough hand sanding.

Here it is rough beveled off the sander

refined the edges a little bit. attached the buttplate and drilled the trigger pin hole

needed a little more tuning to the channel and forend length so I fixed all the problems there and after more grinding away at the chunk of wood I have this. it cocks and fires so I got everything lined up right still needs ALOT of hand sanding but it's coming along.

Should have nice grain when finished

I'm not too ashamed of making it out of cherry becuase the original was not walnut anyway, some kind of beech or birch or some kind of soft fiberous wood.
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Chip · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 20

looks awesome , that must take so much time to make.

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Catapult Kid · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:47 am Post subject:

8 hours in it so far Chip, probably that much more time before it's finished, maybe more.
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Sneaky · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

Beautiful craftsmanship CK. You should be mighty proud of that. Are you thinking of selling it after or keeping it?

Catapult Kid · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

thanks for the kind words sneaky. I'm definately keeping this one. I've been looking for one for a few years but you don't see many and when you do they are very pricey. It shoots good, balances good, takes down quickly, is light and short. the perfect little rifle for slipping around in the squirrel woods.
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Catapult Kid · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:09 am Post subject:

well here it is all finished up. Ended up putting about 4 more hours in it so a total of around 12 hours, not too bad. This is only after the first coat of linseed oil it will get at least 5 more coats to darken it up and bring out the grain. The only thing that really bugs me is the two hairlines by the buttplate, I didn't even see those until the final sanding stages. They are tight and I filled them in, just to be safe. I don't forsee them causing a problem but they are still there. Oh well, it was a first attempt from some scrap lumber, it's just gonna be a little pack rifle anyway probably due to the easy takedown feature. I'll probably tear into rebluing it sometime this weekend.

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LittleRon · Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 31 Location: Texas, USA

that's really cool, you did a good job!

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Catapult Kid · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject:

As far as accuracy it's about all I could ask out of a 107 year old gun shooting less than match grade ammo out of a fairly rough bore and a pretty messed up crown. The fliers were my fault; was shooting in the house with poor lighting it's kindah ard to see those tiny little sights. 10 shots from about 30 feet (my standard airgun range).

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Chip · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 20

that is so awesome want one now.just have to talk my parents into letting me have a gun. but that s very nce looking
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fabil12 · Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 1

They're nice little 22's. Are you shooting shorts with it or what?
The old stock could quite possibly be made of elm. It's a great wood for slingshots too because it's so tough and hard to split. Not very pretty though.
I like your new stock a lot.

homemade · Joined: 01 Aug 2009 Posts: 21 Location: Michigan

it looks beautiful, i love the pattern of the grain.

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