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A 300 savage would be extremely cool. I'd hang onto that one too!!!

BSA, your "amateur" float and bed "tray" work is second to none, IMO. Looks smooth as silk.
Wish I had the skill.. and stones to start carving out 60 yr old M70 wood to bed them.

Best Wishes,
LD

I have no skills and I know that:) I know my limitations and have an agreement with tools. I don't touch them and they don't hurt me. Also I don't F anything up.

The Savage will be around for a very long time.

GSP if you ever need some stock work done just let me know...

Here is the 1959 Alaskan in her new stock I just finished. I am in Dallas this week while she sits in New Mexico curing this week. When I get back I will sand her down to a matte finish and checker.

The stock is pillared and glass bedded completely, including the entire action and magazine area. Bottom metal is glassed in completely and heck even the super grade swivels are glassed in. There isn't any part of metal touching wood. I will post an entire start to finish soon.

That looks very nice hornet. Are you going to put some checkering on her?? I was just out in the shop working on putting my 375 H&H in the coyote bomber swirly that I had on my 30-06 fwt. It just didn't fit the fwt well. It was heavier than the original wood stock. 30-06 fwt went back into the original aluminum butt plate fwt stock... I always really liked that stock, just not so much shooting it off the bench

I look forward to seeing the start to finish thread. Make sure you throw in some target pictures too for those guys that love looking at those . After all, that shows us that it's bedded right...

Nicely done. I'll keep the offer in mind.

Will do. I have some group pics of how she shot with the original stock as well. I have a box of 250gr Partitions on the shelf, as well as some 210's and some 180AB's.

Yes I am checkering it as well. The finish needs to cure for about a week, and with my in laws coming in until April 3, it will be able to do that. Then a quick 1500 grit sanding, some steel wool and paste wax, and on to the checkering cradle.

You are going to get a chuckle out of how I inletted the super grade swivels.

Fantastic job! very best WinPoor

Very very nice! Cant wait to see the start to finish pictures.

What finish are you using? Are you using 1500 and then going over with paste wax using steel wool?

Looks nice, I am always trying to pick up on different ways to finish.

Thanks Guys. It has been long overdue, but with moving the family from Kansas City to ABQ it has been a very busy last 7 months.

Southwind I use a mixture of Armor All and Tru Oil. I spray the stock with AA and then rub Tru Oil in. It dries super fast ( within 5 minutes) and the AA and Tru Oil seem to create a chemical reaction that dries the tru oil really fast.

I might laugh, but I know how you are. You are an artist with those hands my friend. You would laugh at how I inletted the swirly on my 375 tonight too . Got her bedded though. She's sitting in Devcon 10110 right now (in these pictures):





Parradiddle asked the other day how hard it would be to put this stock on a std wt rifle. It was on my '56 30-06 fwt, but I didn't really care for it too much on that rifle. It weighed more than the original wood stock, so the wood stock went back on the fwt and the swirly went on the 375 ....To answer Parradiddle's question, about 3 hours worth of inletting work... However, it's on my 375 now and I think it's going to stay there!!!