[ElWoodTroll]

I'm carving a stock to replace the black nylon one.
To broke to buy a stock blank so I've been chipping away at a
plank of black walnut for a while. In these photos I have roughed out and inletted the lock, stock and barrell. The trigger remains to be inletted and the stock still needs a little fine tuning before I put a finish on it start carving the artwork

[AlArchie]

Lookin' good! That should be a great replacement for that hunk 'o plastic!

Al

[Irish]

Beautiful piece of walnut, ElwoodTroll and a great start with the shaping. I'll be watching as you add the carving!

Susan

[ElWoodTroll]

Originally Posted by AlArchie

Lookin' good! That should be a great replacement for that hunk 'o plastic!

Al

Well I at least it will be pertier (I hope) and more comfortable to shoot although I doubt it will ever leave it's home above the mantel.

[ElWoodTroll]

Originally Posted by Irish

Beautiful piece of walnut, ElwoodTroll and a great start with the shaping. I'll be watching as you add the carving!

Susan

I'm in trouble now....
I will probably pick one of the beautiful patterns from Phillip Eck's verbose and somewhat obtuse treatise on gunstock carving. I had to stick that in there. His writing leaves me climbing the walls sometimes (a lot of times). I did consider using one of yours but couldn't find one that fit the shape just right.....my bad

[whitecree]

You mention black powder - is your rifle/shotgun a black powder weapon?

As to a pattern to carve into the stock, get a decent graphics program, scan the pattern you want in, then resize and stretch until it fits the gunstock.

I agree with AlArchie, the stock you are working on is going to be much better than the plastic crap. Heck, just as is - uncarved, unstained - it is better looking.

[Ashbys]

Elwood ,

Excellent job so far. It is a lot of work to make a stock from a block. Looks good so far.

Ash

[ElWoodTroll]

Originally Posted by whitecree

You mention black powder - is your rifle/shotgun a black powder weapon?

It is a 50 cal. bobcat (The nylon stock being the giveaway) and before someone ask "why bother"..Well.... you have to start somewhere. It's fashioned more or less after a Kentucky halfstock

[squbrigg]

Plastic stock on a .50 cal black powder musket, just don't seem natural!

Buddy of mine has .54 cal Hawken and .50 Pennselvania long rifle and a .50 cal CVA, all are sweet guns to shoot and hunt with. He's a reinactor with a group in Nova Scotia, lots of those folks around now.

Bob

[ElWoodTroll]

Originally Posted by squbrigg

Plastic stock on a .50 cal black powder musket, just don't seem natural!......
Bob

But it was...inexpensive. The nice thing about a muzzleloader is that young ones aren't going to pick one up and inadvertently shoot a hole in grandpa's foot.