Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

Congratulations, My Friend! You did it again!

I have had the privilege of building Trudie’s rifles for the last few years.

Not much for me to say, the video below says it all.

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This year I entered this Spinning Wheel into the New Mexico State Fair.

I did this in my spare time between all of the other projects.

I made spinning wheels years ago. And in between spinning wheels, I made rifles stock. It was then at the New York State Fair that Al Hauser saw one of the 1st Place wheels. He was working at Hart Barrels at the time. He thought I should be making rifle stocks, too.. all while I had a motorcycle dealership, a grade school kid and continuing to making spinning wheels. I think it all worked out and has come a full circle.

This is the same grip pattern I use for the tube guns, but it has been modified for an AR-15 chassis. Safety detent and safety lever have been changed so that the safety lever can rotate. Each grip is customized for each user. I’m real old school when doing this and have been for 20 years. I go off of a tracing of the hand, like a 1st grade Thanksgiving turkey drawing. I have found out that they need to be snail mailed to me… not scanned.. not emailed.. not from a copier.. not from a fax. Regular old pen/pencil/crayon tracing put in an envelope with an actual stamp. 🙂

I have had this stock in my collection for awhile. I was contacted by someone who wanted to know if his Rebel Defiance Drop Port Action would fit. He was looking for Koa and I remember that I had this stock on hand.  I blued the pillars and as you can see, the receiver matches.  I made the drop port and the escutcheon.

Here we have an example of a polished action. in order to match the action, I polished the rest of the metalwork on this rifle.

A client asked me to customize a stock for him. He sent me a stock that he had and liked and a fiddleback maple & walnut blank that he had previous found. I put them in the duplicator and the following happened.

The 2 pictures of the back of the stock show the prism effect of the curly maple.

This stock is made to fit four other Savage actions, note the use of the bedding block.

Cutting a pillar to mate with the Savage action.

This is just waiting for its new owner to come and get it.

This is using a bedding block that I make.

I’ve post a bunch of barrels and items on Accurate Shooter Forum.

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Another Grip finished.

These grips can be custom made for your hand. They can be made to fit a AR-15, AR1-10, Eliseo’s and other metal stocks.

Got a little head of myself and sent off the finished grip without finally pictures.

I’m working a few more, promise to get final pictures!

Clare here.

When I’m in town or not (over the phone), I try to help out posting on this blog (you can blame the spelling errors and broken links on me) for Doan.. who I affectionally call Dad, Pops and a long list of other names.

Well, today he is celebrating his 56th 21st Birthday.

Happy Birthday, Dood!

Finished this rifle!

I finished this up on my birthday! And shipped it!

Below are pictures of the finishing touches.  Which can be a little scary after all the hard work and time put into each piece, one false move and BLAMMO! 🙂

Check out the last picture…. of the fore-end…. there’s an extra special reflection. (Is Doan trying to take a selfie????)

Here’s a bunch of vintage “memorabilia” for sale!

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I put up a bunch of stuff online…

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I am now in the continuing stages of work on this stock. Since, 3 inch wood in rare to come by, I have added “runners” on the sides of the fore-end. The owner of this rifle has request a longer “wheelbase”, so I added an extension to meet his needs. The “runners” will also added strength and stability to the extension.

I’ve also added some splines for added strength, so I could add some cooling vents.

There are two pictures of the trigger guard. I resurfaced then to meet the pillar correctly.

Finished this up today. This was made to match his Palma rifle. Take a look.

I got a special request for this stock. The owner wanted a low profile and something different done with the pickle forks.

(I’m still work on the 40X Smallbore Rifle from the last post.)

I put some stuff up on Gunbroker.

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Thanks.

This piece of Claro Walnut has different grain because it’s quarter sawn. It’s usually don’t see much quarter sawn wood. It takes a lot of raw material. (Manufactures like Stickley were very well known to use this kind of cut.)  But, when you do it’s exquisite.

The owner of this new stock picked my certificate off the prize table at The Southwest Nationals.

He chose a great piece of claro walnut. It has a lot of fiddleback in the forend.

Over the last 25 years, three moves and three states….. I have a lot of leftover pieces.

The other day, I was sorting through all the pieces and thought… why don’t I make laminate stocks.  I laminated a mixture of Red Heart, English Walnut, Koa and other laminates.

There is 1 Prone stock and 3 that are blanks that could be prone stocks, FTR or F-Open.

If you are interest in one of these stocks. Call me. 714-457-5566.