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Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:04 pm
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Here I am, on a Saturday night, still salivating over the wood that budrichard got on his M37, and asking for help.
I bought a piece of gunstock wood (california claro walnut) that should make a very nice stock for the Sterlingworth. The wood needs another 8 - 9 months of drying, and then.................
I am looking for advice on either doing the thing myself or having it done professionally. Pretty sure I could do the major shaping, but not so sure about the inletting. Any thoughts on "do it yourself" appreciated.
And any thoughts on gunsmiths that Society members believe do a good job, preferably western U S.
Keith Kearcher is certainly one possibility. He fixed a safety reset problem on this gun last summer.
Thanks
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Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:26 am
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Morning Stan- you're not helping my 'covets' a bit on this Lord's day with images of spectacular Claro on your Sterly. I've seen your woodworking skills, and you could definitely finish the stock. One of these craftsmen might shape and inlet the head of the stock, and you could do the rest?
Gary Goudy Dayton, WA 509-382-2726
James Tucker Oregon 541-664-9160
Randy Murray Murray's Custom Gunstocks
The Dalles, OR 541-296-6916
Pete Hiatt - Gunstocks
P. O. Box 58 - Sisters, OR 97759 USA
Phone: 541-382-5320 - Fax: 360-750-9025
peterb@coinet.com
Show-Me Gunstocks
Route 3 South
Wanta Linga
Warsaw, MO 65355
Phone: 660-438-4568
Wenig Custom Gunstocks, Inc.
Fred Wenig
103 North Market
PO Box 249
Lincoln, MO 65338
Phone: 660-547-3334
E-mail: gunstock@wenig.com
Web: www.wenig.com
Please give some updates, and pics!, as things progress. |
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Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:11 am
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Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:02 am
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Fitting the headstock is the most difficult and critical part. You may make it look good, but it also needs to be so well supported that it will never crack from the stress of recoil being less than evenly distributed.
I've seen some headstock cracks develop after a refinish from the invisible difference in thickness added by the finish itself. And these werent drips either !
IMO....Get a professional to inlet it, then have a ball doing the rest!
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Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:42 pm
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One more thing Stan: once you got the head position thing figured out, you did right well with your Sterly in Montezuma. Are you confident that you have your stock dimensions now?
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That will have to be figured out over the next few months, but I do have time to get dialed in, and to find someone to take proper measurements. Merced, CA is not a hotbed of gunsmiths, instructers, etc. Oh well, half the fun is SUPPOSED to be the chase 
Because of the drying time still to go on my blank, I will have one more season with the Sterly before restocking.
Thanks for all the contacts listed above. I will be contacting them, and see what can be done. As Jeff suggested, I am leaning towards having the inletting done by them that know what they are doing! |
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Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:18 pm
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:06 am
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First, he has to find where I hid it!, and second, he just got married in September, so he still has other things on his mind  |
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:38 am
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| 3DocPop wrote: |
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so he still has other things on his mind
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You're insinuating some of the rest of us don't  ? |
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