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We just completed the 2017 Montana Stockmaking Seminar with four students from Virginia, Connecticut, Washington and Oregon. Two fellows were shaping bolt rifles from the blank, one was inletting a G33-40 into a pre-machined blank and the fourth was a returning student doing final shaping to a Browning Low Wall he had rough shaped from the blank last year. All student work is with hand tools, shaping mainly with French rasps. I do the band sawing to students layout lines. We discuss geometry, dimensions, wood selection and other pertinent topics in the morning. The class was an unqualified success with all students accomplishing much and all quite pleased with their work. It is always a treat for me to see a nearly completed stock shaped from a blank in five days by a fellow that never knew he could do it! 2018 Seminars will be the last week in June and the first week in September,. I've got at least two students ready to sign up, drop me a line at my website if you want the announcement for 2018, sometime in January. https://i.imgur.com/8a03e5F.jpg?2 Inletting a G33-40 [img] https://i.imgur.com/Td0thRd.jpg?2[/img] Returning student finish sanding a Browning Low Wall shaped from the blank. [img] https://i.imgur.com/GAK4USS.jpg?2[/img] Mauser stock shaping. [img] https://i.imgur.com/krh9wA5.jpg?2[/img] M-70 on Friday, it was a square block on Monday. [img] https://i.imgur.com/GAK4USS.jpg?2[/img] Bastone .375 Mauser. [img] https://i.imgur.com/jn0KPi2.jpg?2[/img] 7x57 G-33. [img] https://i.imgur.com/dUaBKIC.jpg?2[/img] Drawing cheekpiece 6.5 M-70
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 Inletting a G33-40  Returning student finish sanding a Browning Low Wall shaped from the blank.  Mauser stock shaping.  M-70 on Friday, it was a square block on Monday. Bastone .375 Mauser.  7x57 G-33.  Drawing cheekpiece 6.5 M-70
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Thanks Mark!
Tex skeet, thanks for posting pics, what did you do differently?
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Pictures look great, I hope that they will send you pictures of their completed rifles, I'd love to see them.
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Sometimes I get them, sometime I don't????
I'll post if I do. If I can find a host that is????
Thanks for commenting on the pics~~
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I understand, I write a lot of letters of recommendation for students, sometimes they let me know when they get a job, sometimes they don't.
Ok, technical question, that Bastogne 375 Mauser has a lot of figure in the stock, what kind of safeguards do you recommend putting in place to prevent recoil damage?
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That Bastone stock will be reinforced with two cross bolts, and it was glass bedded. I was not consulted on the choice of wood, I recommend English, that is the only wood I use, personally.
I don't recommend Claro or Bastone for anything. It is most often purchased by the uninitiated for inexpensive "fancy". The wrong reason to purchase any stock wood in my opinion.
I always keep a few dry, cured, well laid-out, quarter sawn blanks of relatively inexpensive English on hand for my students. Right now I have one of Australian and one of California origin. Both will make beautiful gun stocks.
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Steven, I see you are plugged into Imgur now, as I am. In order to post pics from that host (instead of providing a link to them), when you have your pic selected merely click on "copy" next to the "BBCode" format option. Be sure also to select "large thumbnail" as your format size (in the list located below the format options)- that will give us a properly sized pic to view here. Proceed with the "right click paste" protocols we all used before Photobucket screwed us. Test examples (of the best $200 I ever spent, "guild" rifle rebarreled to .30-06, w/G&H mount):  
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