Beautiful Wood 98 Mauser

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Just finished a rifle my Dad started
30 years ago. He had a Interarms Mark X action in 270 Win. He built the stock out of wood from our farm that he had dried 10 years earlier.
Curved metal checkered buttplate and grip cap. Found some Warne steel mounts (they were matte of course) shortened front mount and fluted the front just for looks. Polished and blued afterwards. Had to do the bottom metal again because it looked like it had been in a tool bag for 30 years. Found a pristine Leupold 3x9 gloss to finish it out. It still had grease in the barrel.
Been sitting unfinished because he lost some trigger parts. He's hit that stage so he passed it on to me this Bday to finish up. It's never leaving this family.

 

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[Rust]

Classic beauty.

 

[roostercogburn98]

I wanna fondle that wood (no homo).



Beautiful

 

[pmclaine]

Just finished a rifle my Dad started
30 years ago. He had a Interarms Mark X action in 270 Win. He built the stock out of wood from our farm that he had dried 10 years earlier.
Curved metal checkered buttplate and grip cap. Found some Warne steel mounts (they were matte of course) shortened front mount and fluted the front just for looks. Polished and blued afterwards. Had to do the bottom metal again because it looked like it had been in a tool bag for 30 years. Found a pristine Leupold 3x9 gloss to finish it out. It still had grease in the barrel.
Been sitting unfinished because he lost some trigger parts. He's hit that stage so he passed it on to me this Bday to finish up. It's never leaving this family. View attachment 8492783

 

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My wood is not up for fondling....

 

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He did one with exhibition grade quilted maple with a multi-staged staining process that uses ebony 3 times with sanding in-between each coat then finally sand and stain red brown. The results were awesome. It has a skeletonized buttplate and grip cap.
Probably belongs in a museum. Got borrow it to take pictures

 

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Here's one I did, I know, you all are going to think I'm nuts. It's on a Marlin 15YN youth single shot 22lr. 150 or less rifle with way too much time in the stock. But I did it for my kid. Same tree as the stock above.

 

[MikeMiller]

Gorgeous wood on those rifles

 

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A laminated stock from tree with walnut center layer.

 

[loboman7x57]

absolutely beautiful, only thing that could make it better would be if it was 7x57.

 

[TriggerJerk!]

Just finished a rifle my Dad started
30 years ago. He had a Interarms Mark X action in 270 Win. He built the stock out of wood from our farm that he had dried 10 years earlier.
Curved metal checkered buttplate and grip cap. Found some Warne steel mounts (they were matte of course) shortened front mount and fluted the front just for looks. Polished and blued afterwards. Had to do the bottom metal again because it looked like it had been in a tool bag for 30 years. Found a pristine Leupold 3x9 gloss to finish it out. It still had grease in the barrel.
Been sitting unfinished because he lost some trigger parts. He's hit that stage so he passed it on to me this Bday to finish up. It's never leaving this family. View attachment 8492783

You did fine work Sir. Congratulations.

 

[TriggerJerk!]

Everything on this thread looks really nice.

Well done to all.

 

[pmclaine]

You people are masterful with your wood.

 

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Thanks guys. The laminated stock is a 260 Ackley

 

[redbullitt]

Wow. Wish there were more of those around to see. Nice nice work.

 

[bigbuckslayer3]

Really nice, something special about those old guns.