ssdave wrote on Oct 24
th, 2022 at 12:20am:
I didn't know you knew my sister, Zack?
You're right about the best way to do the stock. Personally, I'd build a softwood stock, fit and glass bed it to exact fit, try it on for fit, add bondo where needed to make it fit better, mess with it and shoot it, add and subtract bondo/wood until it fit, and then use that pattern stock to duplicate one in walnut.
Not everyone wants to do it the hard way for a better product in the long run. Not sure what the OP intends. I looked at his link to the rifle, and it will certainly be a challenging stock to make.
I have several friends who are stock makers, Ron Scott amongst them. Ron’s forte is building very high end flintlocks, usually in a Germanic style. He is very well known as a superb craftsman. Given that the lines of the Martini schuetzen one piece stock still carries strong indicators of its foregoing flint and percussion ancestors, he may be agreeable to working on this.
I am going to approach him about this first, but I have another friend, Warren Adair, who is more than capable and might be inclined to be more interested. And that particular friend just happens to have a duplicating machine, so the idea of a soft wood stock first is quite appropriate. Believe me, there has been a lot of bondo used over the years on patterns in his shop.
Between the two of them, I am fairly sure they can handle this, and as they are also close friends with one another, it may prove to be a joint project. I have two other fellows in mind, but doubt it will need to go that far.
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