Reproduction Ross Rifle Stocks, Fresh Off The Duplicator!

Wow! Great work!

There should be a decent market for M14 stocks in Canada.

I'm not sure what maple would cost, but a Canadian made M14 stock in maple would be pretty neat!
 
jonh172 said:
Wow! Great work!

There should be a decent market for M14 stocks in Canada.

I'm not sure what maple would cost, but a Canadian made M14 stock in maple would be pretty neat!
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Friend of mine from work and I were just talking about this yesterday morning. If he gets one I may make a stock for his kind of as a demo project.
 
Great work Brandon!!

The Ross nosecap project is moving painfully slow! Work has been 60 hours a week plus plus all summer, couple that with a wet spring and boom here it is almost fall and no nose caps.

Oh well, I got 4 or 5 more cords of wood to split, that should ensure that I have plenty of heat for tinkering this winter.
 
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Another one.

This one is for anyone with a MkIII that isn't restorable but could be turned into a very nice sporter. Walnut #### is great, I love making sporter stocks!
 
Everyone I've talked to about making nosecaps...has said that when they take one in to a shop and the guy actually looks at the work...it's something like, wow, there's some cuts/operations here that our machine can't handle. We'd need some really expensive broaches etc.

Not easy items to make.

I hope somebody actually manages to get some production ones done up one of these days.

@ $100 or so they would probably sell some.
 
Steve, I definitely do. I haven't made up my mind if I'm going to leave the duplicator outside for the winter or bring it in. I may get a space heater for my woodworking shed and continue this winter now that I have weekends off and our house is almost a home again I'm starting to find time to work at this stuff. There are so many variants of Ross rifles it's going to be tough to make stocks that fit reasonably well for each type. Basically right now I can duplicate MkI*, MkII 3*, MkIII, 1905-R, and M-10 (not the checkering yet). I want to do Lee-Enfield stocks, basically because I want high grade, beautiful stocks on any future restoration projects. I'd love to do my 4T in AAA Claro or highly figured dark walnut down the road. Problem with the Lee-Enfields is the hole in the butt stocks. I'm omitting them on my future Ross stocks until I come up with a jig so I can bore them without a larger lathe or a mill. Finding blanks can still be tough, but my source has been very good to me so far as you can see. Thanks for the compliments guys.
 
@ nose caps, I hope so too. I don't have enough iron to make them and with starting off on trade school now with a wife and two kids on a single income it's going to likely be at least five years before I can spend big on a better lathe, mill and a TIG to make acceptable knock offs. And even then they will likely take longer than a day to make each, plus won't be perfectly uniform. A stock like this one takes most of a week. Parts for these rifles are truly becoming custom.
 
I'm still in the process of my attempt to make a nose cap.......for the last 2 months that is. Just get so distracted with other things, but the snow is coming and I should have more time messing around in the shop. More time means I also have to attempt to thread another barrel....

Also, nice lookin work on the stock! If my threading operation works out then I might just be looking for a nicer stock in the future.
 
Project in Toronto seems to have come to a halt. I asked a local guy with experience and loads of machinery and he said they would cost around $200.00 to make, so I said never mind rather quickly!
 
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