Making A Leather Cheek Pad

[One Lung Wonder]

Well fellas, I have been up and down the internet looking at the various cheek pad/risers available - and not to offend anyone...but I am just not liking what I see. A lot of them look cheezy and hokey.

I am a chit house leather worker that can occaisionally crank out a piece of work without sewing his hand to the leather...do any of you boys have experience with the leather lace-up cheek rests? Any of you aware of a pattern for them?

Figure I might try and duplicate and/or jury rig one from scratch...if any of you have anything to contribute in the way of advice I would like to hear it.

Cheers,

One Lung

 

[Geoff B]

Well fellas, I have been up and down the internet looking at the various cheek pad/risers available - and not to offend anyone...but I am just not liking what I see. A lot of them look cheezy and hokey.

I am a chit house leather worker that can occaisionally crank out a piece of work without sewing his hand to the leather...do any of you boys have experience with the leather lace-up cheek rests? Any of you aware of a pattern for them?

Figure I might try and duplicate and/or jury rig one from scratch...if any of you have anything to contribute in the way of advice I would like to hear it.

Cheers,

One Lung

Try this one:
Triple K Manufacturing Co in San Diego , style 15029 cheek piece

 

[Geoff B]

double tap

 

[purple]

I've found that a lace-on leather cheek pad will most often tend to slip forward under recoil. The US GI pads for the Garand sniper rifles had 2 grommets on the bottom which located 2 brass screws that were to be drilled into the stock to prevent slippage.

 

[ALMAR]

I made mine for my m1a...really easy. Just a piece of wood moulded to the stock, correct height and width and rounded on top, glued to the leather that wraps around the stock and laced on the bottom, stained dark brown. It holds up nicely, looks a little old school but so does the walnut stock...certainly doesn't look tacticoolish though.

 

[BrotherRockeye]

I build that kind of thing whenever I need it, but I make my own patterns specific to the iron in hand so no help there.
I would start with your base piece (that laces to the rifle) on the rifle and using a pencil, draw where you want your rise so you have it positioned properly when you work on it flattened out.
The height of your padding will dictate how much excess to leave outside the padding on your pad cover. Using a lighter weight or garment leather that stretches will help it conform once it's laced on.
I always use a "butt strap" these days to keep the pad/cartridge holder from moving forward.
Think it through in steps...

 

[One Lung Wonder]

I build that kind of thing whenever I need it, but I make my own patterns specific to the iron in hand so no help there.
I would start with your base piece (that laces to the rifle) on the rifle and using a pencil, draw where you want your rise so you have it positioned properly when you work on it flattened out.
The height of your padding will dictate how much excess to leave outside the padding on your pad cover. Using a lighter weight or garment leather that stretches will help it conform once it's laced on.
I always use a "butt strap" these days to keep the pad/cartridge holder from moving forward.
Think it through in steps...

Thanks, BR. Can you post some pics of your work?