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Forgive me for my newness. I'm Trying to find a blank stock, not inletted at all but fully shaped like a rifle stock,
Can't seem to find them but I think I'm looking for the wrong thing, it appears online stock blanks are a block of wood and semi inletted are cut for the action but what is in between?
 
You can have a blank piece of wood machined to shape with no inletting by someone who machines blanks. You will not find one already machined with no inletting...
 
Okay I guess that answers my question as to why I can't find them.
And the reason I would want one is because stocks aren't readily available for every configuration one would want. I'm not a real amazing wood worker, I could inlet a stock but shaping one from scratch would run my patience dry.
 
I purchased one on eBay and even had a snobel forend. It had the rough shape but I had to do all the inletting. I used a sanding drum on a drill and slowly ran it until it was close and then used chisels to cut out the mag well. I’m not a woodworker but did a pretty good job. It was on a TOZ17 22 rifle. Not very nice stocks on those rifles, now it looks and feels great.
I payed $60 off eBay for it
 
jmax857 said:
Okay I guess that answers my question as to why I can't find them.
And the reason I would want one is because stocks aren't readily available for every configuration one would want. I'm not a real amazing wood worker, I could inlet a stock but shaping one from scratch would run my patience dry.
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Inletting isn't as easy as you may think...

Many of those with stock profiling machines can copy the inletting from another stock... that how they 'duplicate' stocks.
 
I bought a few Marksman-style stocks with no inletting, from Richards Microfit but this was probably fifteen years ago. I don't know if they are even still in business. I would think one should be able to do the same thing from Boyds; though I've not tried.
 
It is a whole lot easier to establish a centre line to inlet a stock on a squared unshaped blank, trust me.
Some semi-inlet stocks take a lot of effort to get the iron in line.
Only the very best precision inlet work makes the job easier.
 
jmax857 said:
Okay I guess that answers my question as to why I can't find them.
And the reason I would want one is because stocks aren't readily available for every configuration one would want. I'm not a real amazing wood worker, I could inlet a stock but shaping one from scratch would run my patience dry.
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the shaping is the fun/satisfying part ... the inletting will make you want to tear your face off.
 
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Shaping the stock is compared to the inletting. I found it easier to use an unshaped stock cut on the bandsaw. Lay out the receiver and barrel chamber on flat wood. Inletting the floor plate first also seemed to make it easier.
 
I once made a stock for a SxS hammer shotgun from a piece of Walnut, it took a while, but it came out pretty nice. The inletting for the sidelocks, and the rigger assembly was very tedious, and time consuming, try to get everything to line up properly at the right heights and depths.
 
Trying to hold the stock correctly aligned without the flat sides and flat upper face would make me want to tear my own face off. Inletting such a stock would be incredibly tough to do accurately without something to use as a consistent reference. That's the big reason why not many folks sell what you're after where they do sell semi inletted stocks.

I can't find that Boyd's stock on their website. Does it come with "pads" or some other keying or locating surfaces that you'd cut away afterwards? Because that would be one way of making this work.
 
yes Boyds has what you are looking for/pick a stock configuration click it and scroll to very bottom ,it will describe the shaped uninletted stock with pad option .
 
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A fully finished stock not inletted, I think you don't know what you are in for if you are not a wood guy, best of luck, and take your time. You will need good hand tools, this can't all be done with power tools
 
trevj said:
http://www.calicohardwoods.com/wood_types.php

They sell factory seconds from Weatherby, with no inletting done.

Not badly priced. Dunno about shipping a stock across the border if it's not actually a stock yet....
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yes - not too bad on the $$ - about what you would pay up here. I can get Claro Walnut, but have not seen any French at all.

As for shipping, just call em - there might be issues with shipping "untreated" lumber though all they may have to do is provide a certificate ... usually it's the exotic woods from overseas that you run into issues with.
 
One of the few things I do 'know' about them, was that I was told they tend to cut their blanks pretty close, and care will be needed when setting up a duplicator.
This was passed on to me by a stockmaker who had used several of their blanks.

For those of us that are less concerned about top grade wood, and living more or less in the midst of an almost absolute lack of places to buy any hardwoods at all, let alone stock blank thicknesses, the prices for basic or slightly better blanks seem pretty good.
I certainly paid a lot more for less wood, the few times Windsor Plywood ever got in any even reasonably priced Walnut.
Hardwoods are a lot thinner on the ground out here in the cedar/fir/pine zone on the West end of the country.
 
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