Don't try to hide your wood working skills.
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Don't try to hide your wood working skills.
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I had a job with it, perhaps I'm expecting too much....
I literally ran out of G clamps and places to put the bloody things...
The rifles a rare 1950 dated BSA Airsporter Mk1 Air gun. The stock was made in three parts. Post war austerity meant walnut was hard to come by, so they could cut the wood from small blanks and glue on the sides, quite often these side pieces are beech.
Original stocks rarely come up and frequently require major surgery to repair!
I'm mid way through a lockdown project to rebuild two of these beutifully engineed and very attractive rifles to best possible condition.
The work continues.....
I didn't have any a month ago, now I have two under rebuild and two active bids on Mk2 and a late full stocked Stutzen Carbine coming up for auction on Thursday....
Getting a 'tad' out of hand!
Ref post 12: Quick-grip clamps are quite good and they come in various sizes, makes and price ranges. The one thing that they all have in common is that they can be used one handed.
How To Clamp Wood Using Quick Grip Clamps - YouTube
Cheers F10, I have a few of them and they are useful, but I still find small G clamps the preferred option for rifle stocks due to the fact you can work all around the job at the same time.
The best thing I have found for clamping stocks is the length of surgical rubber tubing that Brownell sells.. You wrap it around the stock and it can apply huge amounts of pressure but leaves no marks as the pressure is distributed across the surface of the wood..
Absolutely brilliant and much better than parallel type clamps.
I haven't a clue where to buy surgical rubber tubing.
So I use an old inner tube from a bicycle tyre.