Looking for a new wood stock...

[razormatt]

Anybody know any good places to get a custom built (high quality wood) stock to fit precisely to my rifle?

I'm not talking about buying a blank and then me inletting it. I don't know anything about working a stock.

I want somebody to take my gun and build a stock to fit it.

???

Thanks

[gopher slayer]

richards does a 96% inletting and on some rifle actions 99%.
nice looking stocks.
http://rifle-stocks.com/

[Ridge Runner]

www.wenig.com, they'll completely finish it for you.
RR

[razormatt]

wow, those at rifle-stocks.com look awfully nice.

I could probably figure out how to sand and final fit them.

It'd be worth the 200$(or far more) difference to try it once or twice, anyway.

[gopher slayer]

yea the stocks are very nice, it do final inletting i think you can just use a dremel tool to take out some of the material. if you take out to much you could just do some glass bedding so your action will fit nice and snug. I have never done it but i have though about it.

[driftrider]

I would suggest that you contact a gunsmith. Any formally trained gunsmith will know how to inlet and finish a stock, and if stockmaking isn't that perticular riflesmith's forte, he probably knows someone who can do it for you.

Mike

[bigbulls]

If you want a truely custom stock made for your rifle be prepared to pay for it. The blank alone will cost you $500+ if you want a piece of wood with a feather croch or stump figure and fiddle back through out, or a marbled English walnut stock, etc...

After it is all said and done you will be looking at $1000.00 at a bare minimum. You can get into some very rare paterns of wood and get into the tens of thousands of dollars just for a stock.[] True custom stocks do not come cheap.

If you want a semi custom stock shaped from a standard patern but of fancy grade wood with limited options you can get away for about $500 - $750

I also highly suggest you contact a stock maker that has all the necessary tools and equipment to make a custom stock.

[Ridge Runner]

I usually buy the semi finished ones and get a smith to do the final fitting, bedding, and install the pad, I do the final sanding and finishing. usually costs me around 100 bucks plus the cost of the stock. I,ve had a couple finished in this matter
RR

[razormatt]

RidgeRunner: You got any photos of the ones you've had done (and then finished yourself)? I'd appreciate it.


Bigbulls: If I were putting this on a awesome action, then I might consider a thousand dollar (range) of stock. It's going on a 5 year old Winchester 70 (not the classic, pre-64 type controlled feed action, but the new push feed type action) in a 7mm Rem. Mag. It is a good shooter, has a 26" bbl and will put 3 shots with factory ammo in a ~1" circle 90% of the time.

But it does have one ugly-butt synthetic stock with no feeling or character.

So if I can get a AA fancy Claro Walnut stock cut in a Monte Carlo style for 179.00 (http://www.rifle-stocks.com/montecarlo.htm), I think that'd be a good fit of nice semi-custom stock to a very middle-of-the-road action and caliber.

I'm not sure why you're calling it semi-custom either, considering that if I were the one to sand and polish it, trust me, that it would certainly be one of a kind. One way or the other.

[Ridge Runner]

Matt, check out my webpage, the 10/22 and the 788 are some stocks I had made and partly finished myself, the 788 is a Richards, the 10/22 is a Fajen, I also have a valmet 412 I had a camo laminate put on
RR