Wood working ideas for shooting

[cdiver]

My range cart

 

[jghoghunter]

My range cart
View attachment 1005305

Thats really nice. Nice craftsmanship.

How do you get that in your vehicle?

 

[cdiver]

Thats really nice. Nice craftsmanship.

How do you get that in your vehicle?

Thank you.
I have a SUV, open the back tip the 2 wheeler, handle lays in the back then lift from the bottom of the 2 wheeler and slide in. I have the back seat down so the handle hooks over the top of the seat and doe's not move during transit. Not as difficult as one would imagine, I am 68 and do it without a problem.

 

[joshb]

I kinda knew that picture would generate a few posts like this!!!! Not to worry...if I don't think of something to do with this wood soon I am sure the tiger wife will!!!

Have you seen any work by George Nakashima? His work is fantastic. Those pieces would be perfect, using his style. He wrote a good book. The Soul of a Tree, if I remember correctly. My mother wanted me to "intern" at his shop but I was young and it was a bit of a drive. Oh well. Life's missed opportunities.

 

[james]

Thank you.
I have a SUV, open the back tip the 2 wheeler, handle lays in the back then lift from the bottom of the 2 wheeler and slide in. I have the back seat down so the handle hooks over the top of the seat and doe's not move during transit. Not as difficult as one would imagine, I am 68 and do it without a problem.

I live in south central Illinois and bought some nice white oak over 35 years ago and would like to use it to build a nice dual rifle cleaning cradle. Anyone know of someone in my neck of the woods who could do this? Bought it originally to have someone make a shelf from it and never got around to it ( :

 

[hoz53]

That cleaning cradle box is what I'm talking about

 

[shortgrass]

If you are really GOOD at woodworking, advertise to fit and bed wood laminate stocks. They are time consuming, attention to detail must be flawless and there are not enough riflesmiths that work with them. This means TIME is at a premium! If you did excellent stock work, that would keep you busy and you could make some good $$$s..

That's down right funny! I have customers ask about using a laminate, "how much to finish it out and glass/pillar bed it?". When I tell them it'll probably take between 10 to 15hrs at $65/hr plus materials they go to Stockys and buy a $350 H-S Precision or a lami that's pre-finished and then expect me to inlet their custom contour barrel (that the stock wasn't 'factory' inletted for) with NO issues to that factory finish. That's like finish painting all the body panels of a car before putting it together. There's a lot of cut and try to inletting, put the metal in and hand tighten the T-Screws, so the inletting black leaves a good mark, remove the metal, cut out the 'marked' areas, coat the metal with inletting black, put it back in the stock and hand tighten the T-screws, remove the metal and do it all over again,,, 'till metal fits stock as it should. And then there's filling and finishing. Keep in mind, when I attended gunsmithing school (and graduated!) we were still being taught stock making by hand from a blank. Not all laminate stocks are created equal. I think some are made of the trashiest wood they can find!

 

[JDMock]

I've recently got into wood working and I'm trying to think of clever projects for shooting. I've done several case holders and have tried making a 20 round ammo holder for ground hog hunting but can't come up with a good design. Any input or ideas of stuff to make. Thanks!

How about a loading box. PS-it has a front cover (not shown),

 

[ShootDots]

That's down right funny! I have customers ask about using a laminate, "how much to finish it out and glass/pillar bed it?". When I tell them it'll probably take between 10 to 15hrs at $65/hr plus materials they go to Stockys and buy a $350 H-S Precision or a lami that's pre-finished and then expect me to inlet their custom contour barrel (that the stock wasn't 'factory' inletted for) with NO issues to that factory finish. That's like finish painting all the body panels of a car before putting it together. There's a lot of cut and try to inletting, put the metal in and hand tighten the T-Screws, so the inletting black leaves a good mark, remove the metal, cut out the 'marked' areas, coat the metal with inletting black, put it back in the stock and hand tighten the T-screws, remove the metal and do it all over again,,, 'till metal fits stock as it should. And then there's filling and finishing. Keep in mind, when I attended gunsmithing school (and graduated!) we were still being taught stock making by hand from a blank. Not all laminate stocks are created equal. I think some are made of the trashiest wood they can find!

Well there you go! There is PLENTY of laminated stock work to keep a good stock "maker / finisher" in work up to his eyeballs for a long time! And the money should be good! Not everyone will run to Stocky's! T-Rust me on this one!

 

[jghoghunter]

Thank you.
I have a SUV, open the back tip the 2 wheeler, handle lays in the back then lift from the bottom of the 2 wheeler and slide in. I have the back seat down so the handle hooks over the top of the seat and doe's not move during transit. Not as difficult as one would imagine, I am 68 and do it without a problem.

Thats great I was just curious how it got in there.!

 

[LHSmith]

 

[JayHHI6818]

Dillon toolheads were multiplying like rabbits so I made this holder.

 

[hoz53]

I forgot one...the one I just got done with. A rack to hold all your Tee-handle Allen wrenches and drivers. I made mine sized so that I could also include a set of Tee-handle Torx too. Yes, a lot of the stuff I mentioned could just be 2X4 construction...but it can also be a nice piece of oak or hickory too. If weight is a concern you can use a wood called Paulownia...it is just about as light as balsa but it's very strong. It is a little expensive if you have to buy it, but around here it grows like a weed.
Here is a few pieces of wild cherry. I had to cut this tree down just over a year ago....don't know what to do with this stuff yet, but it was too nice a tree to use for firewood.....

Let's see the rack. It's probably not wood working but I'd like a stand to keep my Allen wrenches in so I know the size of them.

 

[LHSmith]

SAAMI approved powder storage box:

 

[msinc]

Have you seen any work by George Nakashima? His work is fantastic. Those pieces would be perfect, using his style. He wrote a good book. The Soul of a Tree, if I remember correctly. My mother wanted me to "intern" at his shop but I was young and it was a bit of a drive. Oh well. Life's missed opportunities.

I haven't, but now you got me curious and I am gonna look the cat up and see some of his work.....the name sounds familiar but I am not placing him.....

 

[msinc]

Let's see the rack. It's probably not wood working but I'd like a stand to keep my Allen wrenches in so I know the size of them.

Here it is...nothing fancy, cobbed together quick out of scrap cherry wood. I haven't even put any oil on it yet...need to get a set of torx Tee-handle wrenches to go on there too then I'll give it some finish. I just drilled the correct size holes for the wrenches and wrote the sizes on the wood with a fine point Sharpee. Took longer to get all the correct bits together than to cut it out and assemble it.

 

[potatoe]

Ok. I feel like posting some "Yoda quotes" from Star Wars but I'll bite my tongue. Let me know when you're ready. Josh
By the way, here's your old Tikka:
View attachment 1005291

Lookin' sweet!

 

[wiuprof]

My brother & I made these two oak cabinets in the early 80's. (probably 1982)
I specifically wanted some shallow cabinets for my TC Contender barrels, speed loaders, choke tubes, etc.
They originally had porcelain knobs for pulls and then I decided to make the pulls out of dummy rounds. The "dummy" rounds
are 25-06 for the large doors and .222 Rem for the small doors. The large cabinet has cedar for the back boards and the smaller
one has plywood backer with felt glued to it. They are solid oak.

Just for the record, my brother is a cabinet maker and you can imagine how much each of us contributed to the project.
I made the door pulls…… the rest was my brother's doing! This photo is from 2004.

 

[hoz53]

SAAMI approved powder storage box:

I need one a little bigger

 

[hoz53]

Here it is...nothing fancy, cobbed together quick out of scrap cherry wood. I haven't even put any oil on it yet...need to get a set of torx Tee-handle wrenches to go on there too then I'll give it some finish. I just drilled the correct size holes for the wrenches and wrote the sizes on the wood with a fine point Sharpee. Took longer to get all the correct bits together than to cut it out and assemble it.

That looks fine for something you use at the shop. That's wat I do. I have some t handle allens that came with a stand but my regular ones are piled in a box. I need a rack for them.