AusVarmint

Your just ahead of me Barry. :D Finished the offside checkering a couple of weeks ago. Have been rubbing in some more oil and buffed it up yesterday. Turned out OK :D 20220116_100125 a.jpg 20220130_110352 a.jpg 20220130_110342 a.jpg Just waiting on the barrel and chambering, should be getting close....

Hi Geoff, I will try the thumbnail trick. If it ends up checkered I will think of you, need to be careful as the thumb is already missing a bit from the middle.
I use a sharp knife to scrape , already learnt that one.

Bruce

Picked up the checkering tools today. Was in the right mood to get started. As I have a lot of experience having done one rifle before and that was four years ago :lol: :lol: . It was a slow start setting out and making the first cuts. Once I relaxed and got in the groove it went ok, took my time......

First coat of oil fixes the colour. Now a lot more coating and rubbing. Getting keen to do some checkering too.

Bruce

Finished shaping and sanding. Wood looks a bit bland........

Spent a fair bit of time to day on the files flattening and shaping. Will do the forend bottom tomorrow.
Bruce

Very clever I am as impressed with you jigs as much as I am with the stock That is some work to be truly proud of Am I correct that you bedded the action while you still had a "block" of wood with just the action and barrel channel milled out? C Yes. I glued in some pillars to set the hei...

Finished for the weekend. After a lot of sitting and contemplating I got stuck into it and hoped that a rifle stock starts coming out of the piece of wood. I 3D printed a few templates for butt and floorplate to give some guidance and also draw lines everywhere then ignore most of them. I use the ci...

Ned, that was the one I copied the idea from. Barry, tempting to have a matched pair but I would have to buy another Sako. :D :lol: :lol: A bit of progress. Lots of time spent but not much to show. Have the action glued in. Used some masking tape to give clearance on front and sides of recoil lug an...

I bought a sporter 222mag last year and have decided to give it a makeover. One of my goals for this year was to shape a walnut stock and checker it. Barry B had a piece of walnut I bought and will be glad to see it get used. I've made a couple of other stocks which are on this site but only used so...

Great video. You have the holdover worked out.

That's an impressive start.

They're a bit different. Any idea of fps?
Thanks for testing. Maybe for big game

Bruce

I see you were wearing chaps just be mindful because of the toque of an electric chainsaw even the battery once chaps and cut proof pants will not stop them you will still get severely cut be very careful. Maybe. Noticed that it doesn't run on like a petrol saw when you release the trigger. Only st...

It's done well, but RRP $500 for the skin only! Yep, not cheap and why I have waited a while. I think the convenience will be worth it in long run, probably get the whipper snipper next year. Its like battery tools, need to buy into a system then stick with it. Barry a bit bigger the your Jenny's s...