1922 Philly 20ga

[mike campbell]

I'm trying to delet this thread. My Photobucket pics got shuffled and it no longer makes any sense.

[Mark Copeland]

What a pick-up! Good job!

[HardCash]

So how do you fasten that extra comb wood piece to the existing butt stock ??

[mike campbell]

That pic of the stockwork is a mistake; wasn't supposed to be here...must have shuffled some pics in Photobucket.

Anyway, I'm showing the making of a pattern stock. When it's complete (it nearly is), including having been shot 1,000 or so times at pattern boards and clay targets, I'll send it out with my blank to be duplicated. I grind a flat along the comb, and glue on a piece of 1x2 to give me adequate material to remove and reshape.


I screw a template to the butt to give me a target for cast at heel and toe.



By moving the stock up and to the right I've created a void on the off-sdie. I partly filled it with a couple of thin pieces of fir to keep the weight down, then finished filling everywhere with autobody filler.



Ready for some skim coats of Bondo, then shooting in and final tweak sanding before going to the duplicator..

[HardCash]

Who is doing your duplicating ??

[setterspell]

Nice find Mike, what kind of wieght on the barrels? I hope you'll let us look over your shoulder as the project continues. Keep the pics coming!

[lee r moege]

Now that's the way to get a perfect fitting gun without a try gun. After building stocks for almost 50 years I didn't know anybody else used this technique except guys like Donnie Gemmes, Wenig, and of course the old Fajen and Bishop companys. I particularly was impressed with the wood shown in the opening picture. Which stick are you putting on her? By the way, why did she need new wood, was it cracked way out of fit[which it looks like it was with the comb riser], or like me it just wasn't quite nice enough wood. HA!!!! Lee.

[mike campbell]

I haven't decided on the duplicator yet. No weight stamps on the barrels. It originally weighed about 6-4 and was muzzle heavy. That's just one blank and the matching forend pictured; California English from Cecil Fredi. Near perfect match side-to-side. It should finish up about 6-8 and still have the slight forward bias I desire.

The original stock is oil-soaked and punky in the head. I could have probably sold it readily enough but it's worth more to me as pattern platform. I like pretty wood and nothing less than a perfect fit suffices for me. I did OK with the first couple just supplying numbers to the stock turners, but then I discovered there are things about fit (like the value of a skosh EXCESS cast) that I can't learn at the pattern board. Shooting clays and tweaking as I go, without being bound to a formula, will get me a gun that is effortless to shoot well. Also, with Bondo I can experment with different cheek panels, wrist cross-section, etc. I've done the last several from patterns, and this will be my last, so I'm in no hurry.

[obxharry]

hi, I have a 1922 fox a grade , does restoring stock change valve of gun, or leaving it alone is better