Reproduction Ross Rifle Stocks, Fresh Off The Duplicator!

Cool, I have a barreled action No1MkIII with 95% of the bits and pieces just waiting for some fine young man to take my money for a L butt full wood set in rock maple (heavy yes, but its rock maple for heavens sake!)
Interested? No psi on a completion date...the wood must be well seasoned.(warp/crack)
 
I would be interested in doing something like that down the road but it will have to be when I have the time to play as I'd need to build jigs to drill the butt bolt hole.

Heres the latest MkIII stock. Each attempt gets better as I'm learning more and more. This one has no real flaws,just small hand fitted imperfections.


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Wow! I admire people who can do such things. You have crested the hill now! Hopefully you can continue and help bring many old Ross rifles back to their original beauty. Thanks for sharing your work. :)

My woodworking prowess pretty much ends at the sawdust and firewood mark. :p
 
I can get the nosecap done for $250.00 each retail, but I doubt their would be to many buyers at that price!
 
Using a carbide 1/8" twist upcutter. The difference between it and the straight cut milling bits is astounding. They are far from finished when they leave the duplicator though. I've got it down to 25-30 hours start to finish now, but only four hours of that is duplicator time. The rest is rasp, file, sandpaper, chisel, band saw and dremel tool time.
 
JP, if they are willing to pay in the neighbourhood of $400 for a drop in stock I think they would probably sell at that. I think with the bit I've tried to fabricate some of this stuff that I myself would be willing to pay that for one. The action I use for fitting these stocks could be restored and I have one other very nice barrel that needs a receiver and it could be restored. I'd also love to have one to use for fitting these stocks as if you were to have them made it would be your caps these guys would use in their restorations.

I sold an original MkII cap a while ago when things got tight for $245 in about two minutes on the EE.
 
I have an early MKIII nosecap which is fairly complicated, maybe if I find the later type one for a model which would be simpler to manufacture I might have a go on having some made.
 
I'll do my best to find you one JP, although I would imagine my contacts are probably less in number and those that I do have are probably the same people as yours ha ha. I'll make a post over at the Ross forum to see if someone would be willing to help there. The early ones were milled and later ones stamped?
 
Athrun[Zaft said:
Regarding nosecaps, does anyone have a set of prints, photos, or measurements they could send me? If we can get a standard set of prints and 3D models floating around, it should make things a whole lot easier.
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Put the pics / prints / measurements of the nose-caps online please, when they are available. I think many of us are interested.
 
Does anyone have CAD drawings of a nosecap? Wouldn't it be theoretically fairly simple to contract out a batch to a Chinese company off of alibaba or something? I can't see it costing that much. Hey, even if someone made a casting and sent it off?
 
On a side note, I think I just figured out how to build Lee-Enfield butt stocks. I'm going to have to build a few more jigs, some adapters etc but I think it should be doable. I'll have to take some measurements before I get too excited though!

If I get it done I'm going to do something pretty radical with my repro No4 T. Do a high grade walnut stock or maybe something fancier yet. Then that will add more possibilities to this list.
 
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