08-02-2017, 10:36 PM
Tom, you're right of course, I'm drooling over that beautiful wood score (is it Belgian Walnut ?) AND your wife's wonderfully crafted stock ! I wonder if the new stock can outdo that one - although, with your other major and continuing projects, we may have to wait awhile to see, a winter job maybe .... ?
You're a remarkably talented, creative guy, with engineering skills, a designer, machinist, fine woodworker and so forth. In seven decades of life, I know of few people that combine the skills and craftsmanship that I've seen here in only a couple of days. This forum seems to have it all, not just one-trick-ponies.
I started to post a photo of my hand-crafted stock (for a Savage 99) but it is so beat up that it would be embarrassing and the workmanship wasn't even close to yours when I first made it. BUT, just to provide more eye candy, LOL, here is a photo of part of my .300 Win Mag purchased from and built by a friend on a 1909 Mauser action - lots of goodies on this beautiful rifle. Wish I could claim the workmanship -
You're a remarkably talented, creative guy, with engineering skills, a designer, machinist, fine woodworker and so forth. In seven decades of life, I know of few people that combine the skills and craftsmanship that I've seen here in only a couple of days. This forum seems to have it all, not just one-trick-ponies.
I started to post a photo of my hand-crafted stock (for a Savage 99) but it is so beat up that it would be embarrassing and the workmanship wasn't even close to yours when I first made it. BUT, just to provide more eye candy, LOL, here is a photo of part of my .300 Win Mag purchased from and built by a friend on a 1909 Mauser action - lots of goodies on this beautiful rifle. Wish I could claim the workmanship -