Made the stock from lumps of wood and heres the end product Ken does a very good job
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Made the stock from lumps of wood and heres the end product Ken does a very good job
Very, very nice looking furniture on that rifle...nice figure...
So nice to see quality craftsmanship
Wow, beautiful!!
Much too perfect to be real Thanks for posting ....
PS
Are there any pics of it in the making?
What type of wood is that, Cinders? Real different look to it. Beautiful!
Ridolpho
great looking rifle good job
Great job.
is that the queensland maple ? its beautiful
I really cannot remember what wood Ken used but it was not a common one, he kept it for a special project and decided to do up his Lee and this is the end result, Ken has been a stock maker for 40+ years and followed his Dad who was one as well. I did try and buy that from him but sadly failed. He did the draws on my T in such a way they will never wear out he manufactured a block up out of aircraft grade aluminium and set and pinned it in place and I will be dead and ashed before my T leaves my grasp and Ken was the only stock maker in Perth I would trust with such a job. (You cannot tell the mod unless you strip the bottom wood off the action)
I am happy to share something with the crew here of a true master craftsman as you can imagine a shapeless piece of wood turned into the fine piece you see here.
Seriously tasty:
As Marty Feldman said: "Every home should have one!"
looks like maple.
But I dont know. been shopping around for maple for my 41 lithgow.
seems that maple is now some sort of endangered speicies and harvesting it is either illegal or very limited?
havent found any blanks to do a III with.....yet......
I have seen a mint 55 lithgow in maple and the parkerised tin contrasting with this maple . gorgeous.
I've wanted a Lithgow just because of that ever since.
mine has maple uppers but the lower and the butt are coach wood.
funtional but not as pretty.
I always prefered brunetts buy I might have to reconsider. Simply lovely.
That is simply amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Lovely job and the grain looks like some fruitwood I have (pear I think) very heavy and dense.
Lovely inletting!
Thanks for showing it.
Another thing I forgot to tell you about Ken's workmanship if you will note all the screws apart from the trigger guard screw and front band screw, well they are either Vertical as in the case of the butt plate or the BSA sights all horizontal as is the ejector screw and the volley sight screw, it is this attention to detail and perfection is why Ken is very sought after to build custom stocks.
Damn I wish I had a bigger wallet to buy it but his No to my asking to buy it was very emphatic and I left well enough alone................I did say please can I buy that!
Outstanding work. That is gorgeous!
Looks fantastic. Wish I had these skills.
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Mike I must say, this stock doesn't look anything like Queensland maple to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by mike16
Also there's no 55 lithgows mate. 1953 perhaps but the batch of 1000 made in 1953 were stocked in coachwood. In fact your very unlikely to find a rifle dated after 1940 stocked in maple. If you log onto Gunboards and search for some of my old threads, you'll be able to examine heaps of early and later dated lithgows, to compare the two wood types. My user name is Demo over there.