Laminate stock

[PhilS]

http://www.gun-stocks.co.uk/gunstock-duplication

I had a chat with this guy a good few months ago to see if he could mirror my current stock (to make it into a LH one).

He couldn't,  but was more than happy to copy the stock as is in laminate for about £300 at the time. Not sure what his prices are now.

Lovely bloke and happy to spend the time on the phone going through what I wanted. Well worth a call to discuss. They are based in Wetherby,  West Yorkshire. 

 

[BTC3]

Skeet, Phil, thanks for this. I spotted their page yesterday and they are on my list of people to call. I want to talk to a smith/stocker anyway to see about the mechanism in the fore-end.  I'm sure I could switch it over, but screwing it up is not an option..!

Again thank you both for the help.

 

[PhilS]

From memory the fine fitting, as it were, ie cutting in the stock head and setting in the forend iron etc is down to you or a stocker.

Even if a stocker has to do it, it will still be cheaper than having a new walnut stock made☺

 

[Skeet UK]

Skeet, Phil, thanks for this. I spotted their page yesterday and they are on my list of people to call. I want to talk to a smith/stocker anyway to see about the mechanism in the fore-end.  I'm sure I could switch it over, but screwing it up is not an option..!

Again thank you both for the help.

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[PhilS]

No, just the woodwork Skeet ?

 

[Wonko the Sane]

The laminates are available here from a number of sources and there are lotsa stock cutters with machines that will cut to a thou so fitting is practically done.  I unfortunately picked a highly touted firm to make a red/white/blue lam set for me and they did nothing less than a sh*te job for me.  So my laminate stocks are still unrealized.  Not that I wouldn't like to still have it tho - would be totally cool.  I'll see if I can get some pix of what I have.

 

[Skeet UK]

The laminates are available here from a number of sources and there are lotsa stock cutters with machines that will cut to a thou so fitting is practically done.  I unfortunately picked a highly touted firm to make a red/white/blue lam set for me and they did nothing less than a sh*te job for me.  So my laminate stocks are still unrealized.  Not that I wouldn't like to still have it tho - would be totally cool.  I'll see if I can get some pix of what I have.

​Say it with paint...

 

[PhilS]

Not my bag at all but you have to admit they are stunning paint jobs.

 

[BTC3]

http://www.customstockz.co.uk/portfollioshotgu.html

 

[shredder]

http://www.customstockz.co.uk/portfollioshotgu.html

​That has to be the single most awful front page of any site I have been on.

 

[PhilS]

​That has to be the single most awful front page of any site I have been on.

I would agree, but it's not their front page, but their portfolio page.

That said, their home page isn't much better ?

 

[Nimbusgb]

Wow! That is one truly horrid website.

 

[PhilS]

One can only hope that the quality of their work is better than their website ?

 

[BTC3]

The website is rather woeful, but some the work is impressive. Maybe I should forget the laminate and go for candy apple red, with gold flake and pinstriping?  Maybe not...

 

[SIMON-B]

I can vouch for the quality of his workmanship. ken is the guy who does the air brushing and they look a lot better than the site portrays. I think Some of his artwork is being displayed in Bromley town hall to commemorate the battle of Britain.

 

[shredder]

I would dismiss going to him just on the basis of that page. Needs sorting out properly.

 

[Nimbusgb]

Just goes to show you how even a man gifted with an airbrush and by extension in posession of some reasonable artistic talent is not necessarily the best man for building a website!