My home made fiberglass stock

CanuckR said:
Here is the only other picture I have. Its a picture of the 2 fixture boxes I built. The one on the left is for the main barrel channel, the one on the right is to inlet the bottom of the stock to accept the factory savage bottom plastic for the magazine. They essentially work the same, when assembled they have 2 long bolts sticking out each side to clamp and adjust the stock side to side and 2 bolts in the bottom to clamp the stock against the top of the box. I just used some crap pieces of wood between the bolts and the stock to prevent any putting dings or dents in the stock from the bolts.
The box on the left has guide rails for the router base while the box for the mag housing and trigger guard I used a router bit with a top bearing, to trace the inside of the template.


I'm probably going to start the next one this week, home depot is a bit of a trek so it has to wait until I have another reason to go.
Click to expand...

Can you post the dimensions of your fixtures. I was looking at building a stock for a project and would love to see what works for a fixture. Do you have to do a lot of work fixing the bottom metal. Or do you have a bit of play as to how tight it needs to be? Great work on the fiberglass, I think I will build a couple of plywood ones first till I can get a decent one made.
 
Ian Robertson said:
Okay guys, how many would spend real money on a book describing how to build a composite stock with all the recipes etc? This would be a print only book, no pdf stuff, all you need to get into the business?
Click to expand...

Ian if you would write a book like that with your history as a world class stock maker I think a lot of guys would be buying that book for many years to come.

I surely would buy a copy and know a lot of fellow shooters will do the same.
 
Nice work on the stock! Well done to you for taking an idea and making it work.

Also, I would buy a copy of your book for sure Ian.
 
I got a couple requests asking for some dimensions from my inletting fixtures. Sorry for the delay, here are a couple, I hope they are in depth enough, if not let me know and I can get some more.


 
Here is after my third time out doing load development, 48.8 gr of Reloder 25 under a 117gr matric VLD touching the lands.
These are 3 round groups, I shot some 5 round groups last time, they were much the same. As you can see looking at the group to the right, I have this tendency to pull a round here and there to the left, its pretty consistent unfortunately. Its all the shooter.
These groups were shot at 250M ish (range finder ran out of batteries I shoot in the are a lot so I've got a pretty good idea)
 
Mate2287 I'd say the total cost was in and around 2-300$ I think. To start from scratch I'd just order everything from plasticworld.ca or the similar instead of picking up stuff here and there at crappy tire or something. Would be cheaper and easier. A few yards of fiberglass cloth, some epoxy, I used west systems filler, 2 different types for the fill. To make the core a chunk of foam, some 80 grit sand paper. A can of body filler or make filler with the epoxy fill. (would be my preferred choice if I was doing it this way again. Its slower to set and a bit more work but it would be much stronger.) The fill material is kind of expensive relative to everything else.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom