Doan Trevor Custom Rifle Building

Trudie went to South Africa with a rifle that I barrelled and is coming home with Shiny New Medals.

Congrats, Trudie you are a rock star!

This is my own stock, I built for myself. It purple heart, maple and walnut.

 I added an extension to the bolt handle. The hole in the stock is to release the sear to get the bolt out. And offset scope blocks.Update from Last Spring: This is the 52 Winchester with Hart Barrel and Lilja tight chamber that I put together a few months ago. Finally had some time to shoot it in the usual Albuquerque winds. This was with non-selected ammo and me being a shaky old guy. I will shoot this at the Wildcat. I still will take my trusty old 37 Remington, though.

Here are the 3 post from the beginning of this project:

John Friguglietti sent over some photos. One of the photos is the 2nd place team. John was top Palma Rifle and 2nd place overall in the individuals. I’ve done a few stocks John and he says this is his favorite. Congrats!

Here’s Luke with Sean Simmons from Nightforce. I wonder if they are gonna start the second generation of ZZ Top.

Here’s Stephen Bunde:

and John Friguglietti:

and another one of Luke Ramsay with the trophy:

I participated at the Southwest Nationals. I survived.

I did though get to visit with some old friends. It’s been many years since I put these guys up on their pedestals.

Congrats to all that had their name added to them.

Congrats to Luke Ramsey, Steffen Bunde, John Friguglietti and anyone else out here shooting one of my rifles. Let me know who you are.

From Steffen:

I won the Southwest Nationals Palma individual sling match today. Another cold and windy day. At the 1000 yard line, the wind was 10-15mph. Made for some sporty shooting. This is a picture of me with Doan Trevor, a master artist at making gun stocks. Thanks to Berger bullets, Lapua brass and Vihtavuori powder for supporting the US Palma team.

Currently working on this. Will finish soon.

Finished this project! It was cool to do something a little different.

The stock is from an American Walnut tree that was living in Massachusetts.

Had some supervision on this one.

The rifle came to me with a broken stock. There’s a lot tedious work that goes into a project like this. Notice that amount of blacking on the towel. The stock is English Walnut and is Rosewood. This will be completely when I get the trigger guard.

Now that this is mostly completed, bobbins and flyer to be done in the future, I can go back to my daily woodworking.

I did some hand carving on the pillar block and base.

I have a really unique piece of wood that I’m currently whittling away on. Pictures soon.

From the previous post, you can see I was assembling the hub with the spokes. Once that was finished the hub goes into the jig that you see on the table saw. Two steps of radius cut into the spokes and the the spokes fit into the lip of the rim. Also, I inletted the base of the spinning wheel with rosewood. Legs have been turned as well. Will be making bobbins and a flyer in the future. Stock work calls.

Things have slowed down just a bit. I’ve been keeping busy by making another spinning wheel. Idle hands and all.

So, far I’ve gotten the wheel, the spokes and the hub made. Will be assembling the wheel in the next couple days.

These are fancy flat pieces of wood from stocks I’ve done. It’s a mix of English Walnut, American Walnut, Koa, Mango, North American Walnut. The piece that I put water on was part of the USNRT Raffle Rifle.

This is stock is available now. There’s not much of a wait list at this moment. It’s good time to put in an order.

I’ve also started on a Spinning Wheel.

Three pillar bedding. Hart Rifle Barrel. Trued the action. Ebony Pistol Cap.

Another really nice piece of wood.

From duplication to finish product.

Finished up this Palma Rifle last week. This has a Border Barrel. Another happy friend.

Congrats to Trudie for winning the Aggregate and the Senior Awards!

Thank you for the United State National Rifle Team for my plaque! It’s going to hang proudly in the workshop.

Dennis VanLier passed away on his way home from the Spirit of America Match.

Dennis and I met each other over 20 years ago. We instantly became friends.

I will sorely miss him.

Here are the finished pictures of this one. Great piece of wood! Entered this into The New Mexico State Fair. Waiting to find out results. You can see the presentation stand in the las picture.

Had to build a feed ramp, clean and adjust the Kenyon trigger.

The finished presentation stand is one photos.

Working on this high figured English Walnut Stock. Almost finished.

Stated on a simple Presentation Stand, turned out to be a little more fancy than I expected. Neat to work on something a little different.

Picture of me for Proof of Life. 🙂

This now costs about $100 with tax & shipping. This can’t be shipped through California, even if it comes from someplace else. I ordered from a place in Nevada, but the road they took went through California.. so they couldn’t ship it to me.