Get a great stock vice to hold stock while working. Save,s a trip to the emergency room because your chisel slipped and went in your wrist!
Here's my vice. You can get the same thing from Brownells for under $300, or a Chinese knock off like this one for just a fraction of that. I bought rubber backed aluminum vice pads, drilled and tapped to fit the vice. I use it constantly to clean rifles, work on a stock, etc. And I don't have to worry about scratching anything.
DF