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 reached out to me about making a Dragunov version of the PCC stock and that’s where my mind started to wander first. I thought through how I would produce it and what would need to be different in order to make it successful?
The main difference and challenge is how to seat the receiver. With a wood stock, I’ve molded the resin seat for the receiver between two pieces of wood and receiver drops right into the wood stock. The Dragunov complicates it because there would no longer be wood on the sides to host the receiver, and the pistol grip shifts much further forward than how the PCC stock was meant to encase the action.
If I was making just one of these and not offering it for sale, I could have chopped off the end of the stock at the start of the grip and found a way to epoxy the remains to the wood stock I would make, but I want to make more than one of these things. That would require making a full housing for the receiver, which I have not done before.
First, I washed the stock that came with my PCC. Never fired, but dirty from always being referenced in the shop. I cut it about where the red dash is.
To make a mold, I first had to stack clay underneath the stock and about half way up the side. The lego looking holes in the clay are for registration.
With the sides attached, it’s time to pour in the silicone.
After it dried, I flipped it over, removed the clay, sprayed down some mold release, and poured in some more silicone.
After it dried, I pulled the two halves apart, removed the stock, and then put them back together and poured in my resin with fiberglass shards. The part then magically appears. You can see that while making the mold, I added some clay and the Olyoak logo to it on the side.
In the future I plan on tweaking the outer design but to start off I wanted to remove unnecessary complications and keep it simple.
I don’t have many of the process photos. I just wanted to get it going, but you can see in the mold that I have a section poking out the back. That’s what I inserted into the wood I cut out. I resin’d that together and then smoothed everything out.
I need to finish shaping, sanding, and staining the stock, and I also need to finalize the resin under the receiver into something that doesn’t look like the gray in my beard.
The idea is to end up making it look like this creation by Sean Byers for Onslaught DLC in COD.
I’m thinking of some paracord around the “waist” of the stock, but I’m not sure if I’ll do the grip in resin/silicone or if I’ll follow the sling option. It looks cool but it also looks uncomfortable in reality. I think a QD may work just fine, but we’ll see as I get closer to complete.
And here’s the final result. I’ll add more photos, but here is the main profile.
