Thread: New lightweight stock

Originally Posted by William

Here is the Question, Would you be keen on producing a few of these maybe just rough halves? I have 3 Howas and one in long action.
And if so what sort of cost would we be talking,
IF you just ran them on the CNC and I took them from there.

Have sent you a PM. Long story short, this is still in the prototype phase. As you can see I'm about to make a hilarious stuff-up, so I want to be much more happy with the design before I make them for others!

Originally Posted by timattalon

I have a couple ideas that may be too late. To stop the sling stud pulling out we use the nut type that has a nut on the inside and a washer to spread the load over a greater surface area on the internal. You could also use a layer of fibre glass or similar to help there. The second version where it is not a single cavity looks to be a better version / idea.

All the best and I watch with anticipation.

For the P2 prototype I made an insert inside the stock around the sling stud area, for exactly this reason. Unfortunately I rushed, really and it's poking through a little bit, but that's an easy fix for P3:



Test fitting of the action went pretty well - because of the large step size I specified getting the parts cut (to reduce time & cost) they still needed quite a bit of hand-fitting.


Measured twice and cut once doesn't really work if you measure the wrong thing: