My shooter SVT-40 project, purest be warned.
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Agreed. Awesome work.
I have PMed you for a future stock buyer. By the looks of this thread and if you can produce them at a cost that benefits yourself and the buyer, I think you may have a good little side job. Hope you make a few.
Best Regards,
Andrew
I have PMed you for a future stock buyer. By the looks of this thread and if you can produce them at a cost that benefits yourself and the buyer, I think you may have a good little side job. Hope you make a few.
Best Regards,
Andrew
OK. Hmm, looks like people are interested. It motivates me. Thank you.
I'm not going to lie, it's overwhelming. I wish I had my ducks in a row to fill requests.
If I knew this design was going to draw this amount of interest, I would have had a bunch built before I posted.
Again, I will let people know if this is feasible.
I'm looking into better tooling to speed things up.
I'm not going to lie, it's overwhelming. I wish I had my ducks in a row to fill requests.
If I knew this design was going to draw this amount of interest, I would have had a bunch built before I posted.
Again, I will let people know if this is feasible.
I'm looking into better tooling to speed things up.
I know the bedding would be an issue but depending on investment costs would a stock duplicator help? I know some CGN'ers built a couple a while back.
Alternatively I guess pilot jigs would speed the process up a lot too for basic outlining.
Alternatively I guess pilot jigs would speed the process up a lot too for basic outlining.
If you build it, they will buy! !!!!!! ;-)
I took the stock off to show what it looks like without the SVT. The color looks different, depending on the light. 
Closer inspection after 6 months and roughly 1000 rounds the stock is holding up to the abuse. I dinged it up a few times through use, now it's showing some character. You can't really see the dings in these pics.
Anyway... I put it back together, ready to shoot tomorrow.
Closer inspection after 6 months and roughly 1000 rounds the stock is holding up to the abuse. I dinged it up a few times through use, now it's showing some character. You can't really see the dings in these pics.
Anyway... I put it back together, ready to shoot tomorrow.
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Op. You are clearly a liar. You set out to do something awesome and you did it. Good work man.
Very nice.
If someone was to Build just stocks i think they could make alot of $ doing it.
Do some nice dragnov style SVT stocks in different wood types (Birch , Walnut , Oak ect).
Do the same with M14 Stocks in Regular and E2 USGI , except offer top slotted hand-guards that match out of the same piece of wood.
People will pay very good $ for stuff like this.
and if you have all the tooling and develop a process to do it you could likely pump out at-least Raw unfinished stocks quite quickly.
It would definitely fill a niche in the market.
The only other place i know that was doing similar projects closed its doors.
If someone was to Build just stocks i think they could make alot of $ doing it.
Do some nice dragnov style SVT stocks in different wood types (Birch , Walnut , Oak ect).
Do the same with M14 Stocks in Regular and E2 USGI , except offer top slotted hand-guards that match out of the same piece of wood.
People will pay very good $ for stuff like this.
and if you have all the tooling and develop a process to do it you could likely pump out at-least Raw unfinished stocks quite quickly.
It would definitely fill a niche in the market.
The only other place i know that was doing similar projects closed its doors.
OK. I had that thought after our Saturday shoot. I had a few people try this gun to get their opinion. One shorter shooter thought it was a bit long for their size.
After that, I thought of a shorter version, stock length, or like you mentioned, adjustable. That will take some designing, which is not a big deal. My plan at the moment is to see if I can duplicate the current stock and go from there. At the shoot I received some good feedback. Everyone liked the look and feel. At least I'm on the right track.
I'm thinking about different woods, as I have an amazing exotic woods supplier locally. Exotic wood isn't cheap. I'd like to perfect the current wood ply version before attempting an exotic wood version. This is down the road. I don't want to get ahead of myself until I have a few birch ply duplicated samples made to my liking.
In order to gauge stock fit, it looks like I may need to buy a few SVT's for the receivers. This would allow me to quality check for fit. Someone hiding a big pile of SVT's here in Ontario? The supply seems a bit thin right now. Only a few dealers have them in stock, all out west
. I wish a local-ish dealer had a few to avoid the cost of shipping, besides I'd like to look at what I'm getting. I wouldn't use a collector grade for this purpose. Thanks for the input everyone.
OK. I had that thought after our Saturday shoot. I had a few people try this gun to get their opinion. One shorter shooter thought it was a bit long for their size.
After that, I thought of a shorter version, stock length, or like you mentioned, adjustable. That will take some designing, which is not a big deal. My plan at the moment is to see if I can duplicate the current stock and go from there. At the shoot I received some good feedback. Everyone liked the look and feel. At least I'm on the right track.
I'm thinking about different woods, as I have an amazing exotic woods supplier locally. Exotic wood isn't cheap. I'd like to perfect the current wood ply version before attempting an exotic wood version. This is down the road. I don't want to get ahead of myself until I have a few birch ply duplicated samples made to my liking.
In order to gauge stock fit, it looks like I may need to buy a few SVT's for the receivers. This would allow me to quality check for fit. Someone hiding a big pile of SVT's here in Ontario? The supply seems a bit thin right now. Only a few dealers have them in stock, all out west
Thanks for the input everyone.
If need be and once you get your price range down, you might be able to tempt a few owners to supply their receivers as test subjects and in return offer a prototype discount heh heh.
