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Have done a test with a dremel ball, the burr type rather than a cutter. It kind of sands the hole and burns it slightly which looks good. Also have a burning iron with lots of different ends.
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Cheers! I think deep down we all love a short shotgun.

You're seeing the good side of the checkering. The machine had some backlash, so the lines aren't evenly spaced. Will probably end up carving...

Its done! For now.... still doesn't have the stippling or checkering tidied up, but I'll just leave it for now and make a decision on how to finish that one day.
My brother was out for the weekend...

Not sure I want a job doing anything! Id have to do a run of them to make it worth my time unfortunately, too many projects on the list!

Cheers! Using fusion 360. I'm a mechanical consultant and usually use Inventor, but fusion for all my cnc stuff.

Kinda got caught up in the moment with it and forgot a bunch of photos. But I spent some time sanding it down to 320 and decided on which oil to use. I know boiled linseed would have been better, but...

Cheers Doc! I'm a mechanical thinker rather than creative, so getting the machine to do what I want is easier for me.

Cheers! Yeah modeled it from scratch. My normal shotgun is a remington 1187, so I took lots of measurements and modelled it to match that, slightly increasing the palmswell.

While fitting the stock, I was going back and forth, machining the fore-end.
Its got a wee surprise that I haven't seen done before but I thought would be cool.

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Next thing I did was to clamp the two halves together and start fitting them to the action. Its a tricky bugger, tapering in and having a semi-circle part in the center.
I just wanted to see how...

Thought I'd throw up some photos of a buttstock and fore-end I've been making out of some nice chocolatey (is that a word?) walnut I was given.
I'd previously done a trial set out of some...