diy stock or stock mod?

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My apologies, I'm not 100% sure I have this in the right place. The DIY section said nothing firearms related there, but this gunsmithing part obviously focuses on working the metal. I am trying to see if there's any material on here about someone who made their own wood stock or made cosmetic modifications to an existing one. I am a wood worker and think it would be a fun project to make a stock for a lever action or shotgun, and I cannot find anything so far on here, but I wonder if maybe I'm not searching for the right specific terms. Even if not a scratch build, maybe then something cosmetically done like wood burning? I've seen a couple builds people elsewhere have done of rifles where you make the whole stock and the action is bedded in the top, but I'm wondering about where it's two parts, the butt stock and then the foregrip such as in lever action or shotgun. Any help directing me to projects on here or on other pages where someone's made one and you thought it looked amazing would be greatly appreciated.
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Add the search term 'inletting' for more refined results. There are folks out there who mortise new Winchester butt stocks and such, but it's not very common as replacements can be found and the fit is usually quite good. This is probably the best I've seen, outside of published literature, but I can't say I was looking hard:
http://www.treebonecarving.com/how-to-fit-a-gunstock.html
 
You're in the right spot and there's been some stock making threads in the past. The fault in not finding them isn't really yours. It's the nasty default choice of the Search options.

After you put in the search terms you want and select the forum to search through go down to "Find Posts" and change the second option of "And newer" to " And Older" and you'll find the stuff.
 
Just restocked an 1895 Winchester for a friend. Epoxy bedded both buttstock and forend.
Rebarrelled the rifle, too, fitting a barrel from a No. 4 Lee Enfield. Remachined the breech, and recut the chamber.
 
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