Recently, someone reached out and motivated me to produce a stock for them by making a surprising offer. When I started making these I initially decided not to take on commissions for fear that I would feel pressure to complete something quickly or fight against unreachable expectations, but in this specific situation both of those …
I took the summer off to spend quality time with my family, avoid the heat of the garage, but also to think through some idea changes to the stocks I’ve been making. You saw the first of those changes with the P.A.G., which introduced the new, fully resin bed holding the receiver. I liked it, …
I get bored. I get lazy. I’m also creative and productive but I always come back to being bored and lacking motivation. I’ve taken the summer off of production because of the heat and family activities, but along with that I think my mind was needing a fresh problem to tackle. A while back someone …
I took the summer off to prioritize time with my wife and kids but as school has started, and the temperature cools down just a little bit, I wanted to let you know I’m getting back into creative action. I don’t know exactly when I’ll have new pieces available, but plan on hits from the …
Summer is here and finding time to make the stocks is a little more difficult. I’ll be posting new stocks after the July 4th holiday. Have a wonderful start to the summer!
This was me working on two stocks the 10th of May, 2022. There’s a third that may complete by this weekend but I screwed up on the resin and made a mess on the outside that will take some effort to clean up.
I fired up the tools again to see if I could improve the original design. If you’re not improving, what are we doing? I don’t have process photos on this one but I do have results. Changes from version 1 to version 2 Shape Tried to shave off more weight by really thinning the stock …
I started out going with just the manual hand planer and rasp but quickly swapped things up. I had too much material to remove by hand so I busted out some power. Now I can go after it with the rasp and chisel. The eventual design is starting to take shape. Get Amazing how this …
My first part of the process in making a new stock is to think through all the steps I’m going to need to take. Not that I followed all of them, but it’s nice to have a game plan prior to having to change the game plan. The challenge that kept me from attempting this …
As soon as I purchased the Ruger PC, the weather turned cold and picking it up Friday or Saturday seemed questionable. I told my wife I would just take a quick drive down the road and assess the snow situation, but I kept checking a little further and a little further until I was in …
