Category Archives: Rifle Building

Inlay is Purple Heart with matching inserts from the pistol grip wood.

Inlay is Purple Heart inlaid with English Walnut plugs. The pistol grip and the diamonds are English walnut inlaid with purple heart. The original stock is some sort of Maple.

Maple stock with ebony pistol grip cap. The owner of this rifle wanted to have all of his rifles match and for this one to mimic his smallbore rifle. I worked on his smallbore rifle which had a Karl Kenyon … Continue reading →

This will have a bedding block.

These will need to dry for some time before I can work with them. One of the blanks has quite a bit of fiddleback, And the other blank has a nice speckling. If you are looking for something different, all … Continue reading →

Bedding completed and now making a trigger guard.

Smoothing out the stock blank rough finish from the duplicator.

Lately there have been requests for an F class open stock. I have created a pattern for my duplicating machine. One of the unique things on the stock is that the rear slider is relieved so it does not drag … Continue reading →

This project was a challenge. I was sent a thumbhole stock and need to put a length of pull adjustment from 12.5″ to 14″ and needed fit pieces on the rear wood, because of the sizes of the hardware. I … Continue reading →

The cheekpiece riser is installed, and the machined parts to adapt and Anschutz buttplate is installed. I was able to achieve a length of pull from 12-1/2 to 14 inches.

The problem is when using the standard button head screw The Allen socket will strip out. By using a 5/16 inch button head screw, you can use a 3/16 inch Allen wrench. I have to turn them down and rethread … Continue reading →