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A few months ago I picked up an old Riverside brand double 12 gauge, model 215. It had no stock, no fore-end metal, and was missing one hammer. I repaired it to a functioning state, and took pictures as I did so. This was the very fist gun stock I have built, so bear with me, it's far from perfect, but for the interested few here you are......

This is what I started with https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765

While I don't have any real before and after photos of it, the first thing I did was use 320 grit sandpaper on the barrels, and buff the receiver. Then I cold blued the barrels, and made a new left hammer, it isn't the final hammer, I just made it for functionality purposes, and it works well. After all that I found a long bolt that fit the back of the receiver, a 1/4 coarse. From there I cut up some large slabs of birch, and hand planed them flat on one side. After some layout work I inlet them for the bolt, and glued them together. From there I inlet the receiver with chisels, a chainsaw file, and some sandpaper.... [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

After in-letting it properly, and tightening the receiver to the stock blank, I laid out the bolt path through the stock to make sure my pattern didn't intersect it. Then laid out the stock pattern. I decided to go with an English straight stock, partially because I hear that it makes it easier to transition between the triggers, but mostly because I figured it would be easier than pistol grip to make, and because I haven't got a gun with a straight stock. I modeled it after my the stock on my father's Baikal single shot, that particular gun fits me very well, the only changes I made were eliminating the pistol grip, adjusting the length of pull, and adding 1/8" of cast off. Because I don't have a band saw I cut out the stock in steps...literally, with a chisel and saw I step cut the outline of the stock out. [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img:center]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

After a bit of work with the hand plane it seems to be taking shape [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

Then I laid out the butt plate (off set to the right by 1/8 of an inch), and began carving with a combination of a spoke shave, hand plane, chisels and rasps [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

With the main body of the stock finished to 100 grit I started on the butt plate, just another piece of birch with the grain running vertically. I traced the outline of the butt onto the wood, and cut it out with the rasp and chisel, I achieved the final fit by screwing it to the gun, and sanding outwards with the stock. The contour was done by eye. [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

After that I sanded it down with 150 grit paper, and then 320 to achieve the final flush fit [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

The fore end metal was next. I completely rebuilt the metal parts for it (spring included) with the use of a lathe, and mill, but it was completely square, so I filed it to shape, and flush with the receiver, finishing with 320 grit, and buffing. [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]

In letting the wood to the fore end metal was easy, but determining the appropriate shape took some thinking. originally I just played it by ear and ended up with some monstrosity unfit for even the cheapest of foreign made guns. Eventually I had the sense to do some research and settled on a splinter fore end. [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img] [img]https://plus.google.com/u/0/101346482586...482586753260765[/img]