Model 70 with a Boyd's blank

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Fellow Gun Nutz;
Here are a couple pictures of a Model 70 that I just finished for a fellow.

I'm not sure what grade the blank was, but my photos don't show it well enough.

The recoil pad, grip cap, fore end tip and spacers were to his specs. He said I could do whatever pattern on the checkering that I wanted, so I tried to make something up that matched the flow of the lines in the stock. The finish is Tru-Oil.
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Thanks for looking and happy Easter to all.

Regards,
Dwayne
 
Very nice. Terrific figure.

I'm making a stock from scratch right now. Out of eucalyptus. It will be an oil finish as well.
 
Fellow gun nutz;
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate them.

I'm glad to see there are a few of us dinosaurs still alive who like to at least look at a fine piece of lumber now and again.

Regarding the maple spacers, they wouldn't be my first choice either, but like all custom things this looked right for the owner so that’s the way it was done.

That said, I helped a young friend in his early ‘30’s build his first stock this year and he insisted on white spacer sandwiched in between the rosewood fore end tip and grip cap. He also did a modest Monte Carlo on the butt stock, albeit with no roll over on the cheek piece. Maybe we are in for a modest resurgence of the California style?

I’ll have to admit I get a little bored when all custom stocks have to be “classics” or the purists will turn their noses up at them.

I try to do something different as far as shape goes, just to learn some new twists.

This is about as wild as I’ve done so far, built from a raw board -but it is a rimfire and doesn’t really belong here.;)

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Thanks again for the kind words and Happy Easter to you all.

Regards,
Dwayne
 
timmy204;
Thank you for the kind words I appreciate them.

To answer your question, I built my first stock for a broken double barreled shotgun to hang on the wall when I was 12, which was 36 years ago.

I've been playing with all manner of firearms as a hobby for as long as I can recall, but started doing stock and mechanical repair on the side when our Saskatchewan farming venture started to go sideways in mid 1983.

Thanks again for the kind words, I do appreciate them.

Regards,
Dwayne
 
Do you do this for a living? Just wondering because I would like to get a nice stock put on my Dad's model 70. How much might a project like that cost?
 
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