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Well I finished the checkering this morning with a few coats of Tru oil cut 50% with Mineral spirits.

Yes there are some mistakes that you can probably pick out of the pictures, but it was a learning process. By the last forearm panel I was moving along pretty well.

All inletted, glassbedded, finished, and checkered by hand with Zero power tools.

The day I started.





glass bedded




cutting the checkering



complete and back together





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Can't wait to scratch it

Wow, nice job! What caliber? some great memories ahead...congrats.

Very nice work....how long start to finish?

You do very nice work! I'd be very proud of that one. Congrats!!

Ditto

that's just crazy.......

I long for the day when my available time and patience level line up....can't see it happenin' any time soon...

where to send the stock and the money?...address please..:-)

that's very nice...good job.

I think I speak for more than myself when I say, how irritating it is to us untalented, ham handed , do it yourselfers, to have a newcomer do such a fine job. It takes me 20 years to get average at anything. I am jealous.

Very nice sir, thank you for the cool pictures.

That is cool!

An excellent job in creating a rifle you have every right to be proud of, nice job with the photo progression too.

Congratulations on a nice job. If you don't mind saying, who supplied your semi-inletted blank? It looks like a pretty nice piece of European walnut.

That is beautiful work, like the others I am envious!

Well done indeed!

nice work..

I don't know what to ad that hasn't been said by others already. It's a beautiful gun that I would be proud to own. Considering you did the stock work I would be super proud of it if I was you. You have talents most of us can only dream of.

Fantastic job, my hat is tipped to you sir,you want to do one for money?

Most people don't have what it takes to pull that off. Nice job!

That is beautiful work.

How did you learn to checker?

Thanks everyone. I started this project as a tribute to my late grandpa who passed last year at 89. He was a career tool and die maker(50 years with the same company) , survivor of a kamikaze attack in the Pacific Theatre, and a great mentor. I can remember learning how to weld, solder, read a micrometer, etc as a very young boy. He always measured 4 times, cut a 1/32 long and hand sanded whatever he was working on to a perfect fit.

I used many of his tools, or tools he bought for me as gifts over the years. I used zero power tools and it took a while.

I have already started another stock, a grey pepper laminate from Boyd's. It took a while to inlet it as it looked at though it wasn't set up square in the jig when they rough cut the stock. I got her all glass bedded and I am keeping a running time of how long it takes me to checker.

Would I do this for pay? Yes I would. I am first finishing my projects. My 6 and 4 year old daughters have a model 70 at the gunsmith getting a new barrel and I am in the process of stripping and putting a slight pink stain on a stock for them ( hey they wanted a pink gun). Then I have 2 stocks for a friend of mine that needs checkering.

Once I get those done I will have a good idea and a 6 stock average to establish a price on. I can tell you that this is a part time thing and I cannot promise a fast turn around as my day job has me on the road a lot.

But I will keep anyone who is interested in the loop. Just shoot me a PM.

Bought the tools and went at it.