About to start a new stock project with Purpleheart wood.

[Flyin6]

Use a top coat with a UV protection or it's going to brown up.

 

[sparky123321]

Use a top coat with a UV protection or it's going to brown up.

Will do.

 

[Bc'z]

Will do.

Take a look at trans tint dyes.
They have a Bordeaux dye you could do a light dye wash before clearing. This should help with color not fading.

 

[sparky123321]

Did the router cuts on one of the stocks today. I should have taken a picture of the floor around the router table before I vacuumed. You literally couldn't see the concrete. I'll do the 4 tablesaw cuts to the buttstock a little later today. Cat's needed to get down the basement.

Not sure if I'll profile this one a little different since it's going to be a lighter 26" Remage MTU. Was considering angling the base of the buttstock instead of the parallel buttstocks I normally prefer. Was also considering tapering the forearm up to more of a lowboy while still keeping the forward portion parallel to the barrel.

Only time will tell. Some of the cuts need to be done before others and before you widen the forearm, so you need to be thinking ahead all of the time.

 

[sparky123321]

Just finished all the difficult tablesaw cuts on the butt. This is the point where it would be nice to have 2 tablesaws. One left tilt and one right tilt. Lots of shaping and sanding and then on to the forearm. Unfortunately, this bank had a crack in the grain at the end of the butt. No worries though. I'll drill a few very small holes in from the back and stabilize it with a syringe and some Tite Bond.

 

[Nick Caprinolo]

Nice! I like your style! Building a stock that’ll tick off your friend. I built a Yellow Creedmoor for that purpose!

And what a stock that is. Saw that sucker today and it's a beauty.

 

[theallcineyes]

Nice looking wood and piece of work, Never heard of PurpleHeart wood.

 

[joshb]

Just finished all the difficult tablesaw cuts on the butt. This is the point where it would be nice to have 2 tablesaws. One left tilt and one right tilt. Lots of shaping and sanding and then on to the forearm. Unfortunately, this bank had a crack in the grain at the end of the butt. No worries though. I'll drill a few very small holes in from the back and stabilize it with a syringe and some Tite Bond.

Very nice work so far. Watch the fingers on those “difficult cuts”. I’ve been “bit” a couple times. I left the blood on the floor to remind me of my carelessness.

 

[sparky123321]

Very nice work so far. Watch the fingers on those “difficult cuts”. I’ve been “bit” a couple times. I left the blood on the floor to remind me of my carelessness.

Good advice. I always use whatever guides, clamps, feather boards, anti kickback rollers, etc I can on each cut.

Just finished the radiuses and have the forearm extensions ready to go. Can't glue those on until I router out the action/barrel channel. Just waiting on a 1 1/8" and a 1 3/8" round bits. Come on Amazon! Shaped up the pistol grip a lot more as well.

I did end up going with a lighter, narrower and shorter lowboy benchrest profile this time around to better match the 26" MTU Remage that's going in it. While waiting on those router bits I drilled some holes and used a syringe to inject glue to stabilize the crack in the buttstock.

 

[joshb]

I sometimes change the design midstream. That’s the fun of building them! It’s all up to you!

 

[sparky123321]

Much more manageable than the heavy benchrest stock I normally do.

 

[sparky123321]

 

[ebb]

Getting cut with a saw is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Big lawsuit in federal court in West Palm Beach a few years back. Guy was cutting a bunch of narrow strips against the rip guide and had one bind up and kick back. Shot a piece of Ipe into his femoral artery and bleed to death before medics could get there. I had a small shelf I was cutting from prefinished maple that I dropped on top of a running saw blade. After spinning for what seemed like forever, it hit me about 3 inches below the belt buckle. I hit the floor and my daughters blue tick hound came up and licked my face once and spooned up against me till I could get up. Be careful with the weird cuts !!! I was always afraid of the giant saw we had at work ( a 16 inch Baxter-Whitney ) Me mentor told me it had so much HP it was less apt to bind and kick as one of the smaller portable saws.

 

[spclark]

Don’t ask me about the Rockwell 1/2” shaper that bit me back around 1991.

I was making some library tables for my wife, set up w/ 3/4” flat cutter to cut slots for shelf on stringers. Had a hunch I was doing something wrong...

I scrapped that darn thing when I moved in 2014, never used it again after that mishap, never found a buyer for it either.

 

[joshb]

Don’t ask me about the Rockwell 1/2” shaper that bit me back around 1991.

I was making some library tables for my wife, set up w/ 3/4” flat cutter to cut slots for shelf on stringers. Had a hunch I was doing something wrong...

I scrapped that darn thing when I moved in 2014, never used it again after that mishap, never found a buyer for it either.

Ouch! I cringe just thinking about it!