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I want to make my own stocks and I really don't have any idea where to start. I have a decent set of wood working tools and at one time I knew how to use them. Is there a web site or some other place that has dimensioned drawings of stocks? Thanks
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Get a copy of "Checkering and Carving of Gunstocks" by Monty Kennedy and "Professional Stockmaking" by David Wesbrook and go through them. I had some general knowledge of the process and the tools, but these two books really sharpened up my skills and taught me all the things I wasn't really sure about like, offset, measuring a stock, dimensions, laying out the cuts, etc....
Good luck, you'll be hooked after the first one.
Bob
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find a friend that has a milling machine
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Get a copy of "Checkering and Carving of Gunstocks" by Monty Kennedy and "Professional Stockmaking" by David Wesbrook and go through them. Thanks. I just ordered them off Amazon.
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I haven't read the Monty Kennedy book cover to cover but isn't it about checkering mostly. Good book about checkering but I don't remember seeing anything about stock making. Am I wrong?
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You know, you're right. I screwed up and pulled the wrong book off the shelf when typing my response.
The other book I wanted to refer to was "Restocking a Rifle" by Alvin Linden.
The Kennedy book is great for checkering, but not for stockmaking. Sorry about that, Woodsmaster, hope you can cancel the Kennedy book if you want to.
I bought the Alvin Linden book and the Wesbrook book used from Powell's books in Portland.
Bob
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Thinking a guy could not be hurt by looking critcally at the rifle stocks in the Kennedy book... There is some good tuff about lay-out there.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I have the Al Linden book. It's a good one also.
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