With all these beautiful mausers shown, I’d love to know how they were built, especially the stocks. Did you select a blank and then did the work yourself? Was it done by a specific gunsmith?
I selected all the blanks and had them turned. The G33/40 was my own pattern blank, finding a blind magazine Mauser blank is impossible.
I did all the work myself, the inletting, finishing etc... The checkering I farmed out.
The blank on the G33/40 was selected by weight and grain. The blank on the FN 375 was from Roger Vardy in Australia, he is one of a few that separates blanks by weight.
Most of my builds I try for lightweight.
The 458 is in a very dense heavy Bastogne blank.
On the G33/40 I had McGowen thread and short chamber the barrel, I rented a reamer and finished cutting the chamber myself.
Some of my Mausers are rust blued by me and some Cerakoted by me.
A few had the barrels fitted and chambered by gunsmiths.
Most of the bolt handles I welded myself. Drilling and tapping was done by a smith as I don't have a jig.
