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
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Returning student finish sanding a Browning Low Wall shaped from the blank.
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Mauser stock shaping.
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M-70 on Friday, it was a square block on Monday.
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Bastone .375 Mauser.
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7x57 G-33.
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Drawing cheekpiece 6.5 M-70
