Stock length dilemma,and solution.

[holloway]

Ideally my stocks are always 14 1/4 ,but this one measured 14  1/2 without the butt pad ,I new it was too long in the shop but didn’t even think to measure it .I thought it would be sorted by changing to a thinner pad.

so some of the stock had to go ,I didn’t want to  make the actual stock stupidly short so I decided to add a 10mm walnut pad after removing a small amount of stock and ending up with the 14 1/4 that I wanted.

Found a suitable piece of walnut off cut on eBay £5 (enough for two)Had to add some dye to darken it up a bit, added a few lines for grip and blackened a couple of screws for attaching it ,Finished up with a few coats of minwax .

Not perfect but will do the job.

 

[wisdom]

Now that I like.

Classy job.It looks like it belongs to the gun from new.

[mel b3]

Fantastic job 👍.

[ditchman]

you do yourself a diservice..........looks a well found job...

[WalkedUp]

That looks ace 👍

[yates]

Looks really good , well done 

[Old Boggy]

That looks really good. I like the idea of using a checkering tool for the grooves. I used a thread file when I made mine and yours looks far better.

You also have the satisfaction of having done it yourself which I admire, so well done.

OB

[holloway]

Thankyou for the positive comments,I enjoy messing about with my own guns ,wouldn’t want to take a risk on anyone else’s though.

[Old Boggy]

Here`s a wooden butt pad that I  made for my 20  bore McNab highlander which had a rather nice leather covered pad which was too  long for me.

Not too bad for a first attempt but I wish that I`d used a checkering tool instead of a thread file as I think that it would have looked better.

I still had the satisfaction of doing it myself and making a reasonably functional job of it.

OB

[Gordon R]

Gun mounting is snag free with a wooden butt plate. Excellent job.

[holloway]

36 minutes ago, Old Boggy said:

Here`s a wooden butt pad that I  made for my 20  bore McNab highlander which had a rather nice leather covered pad which was too  long for me.

Not too bad for a first attempt but I wish that I`d used a checkering tool instead of a thread file as I think that it would have looked better.

I still had the satisfaction of doing it myself and making a reasonably functional job of it.

OB

That’s a big improvement on the leather one I like that a lot,I used the checkering tool as it was the one with the spacer guide head and keeps the lines parallel.