Carbon fibre stock project

[Bavarianbrit]

Cawder , started at March with Robin Heard in 1980, now still in F1 , always away travelling somewhere with a car, and in the early days i used to sit next to James Hunt on flights, yep quite a bloke,

Hunt the shunt.
I did three days laminating with Alexis racing somewhere south of Birmingham but he was such a stuck up snot that I left, that was in 1971.

 

[hedge hunter]

Takboc your phone is going too be redhot mate.top job

 

[Vulpes]

Very impressive, so knowing absolutely nothing about carbon fibre, is the stock hollow up to the action and then again hollow along the foregrip? Really interesting stuff!

 

[Cawdor118]

That's fascinating, you must have seen it all in terms of interesting engineering!

Ha - it would be more the women i would have been interested in!

 

[Ronin]

Now if only someone with your skills would make a Sako varmint shaped stock inlet for T3 in carbon ,,,,,,,,have a Sako varmint av laying around here somewhere ,,,

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

Now if only someone with your skills would make a Sako varmint shaped stock inlet for T3 in carbon ,,,,,,,,

YES but a sporter.

 

[JockStalk]

That is time we’ll spent Rory - nice job mate!

 

[hedge hunter]

Now if only someone with your skills would make a Sako varmint shaped stock inlet for T3 in carbon ,,,,,,,,have a Sako varmint av laying around here somewhere ,,,

Stop making me hope Ronin. A dream come true

 

[takbok]

Now if only someone with your skills would make a Sako varmint shaped stock inlet for T3 in carbon ,,,,,,,,have a Sako varmint av laying around here somewhere ,,,

Ok, let's get the sporter mould out of the way then you can send me that varmint stock

 

[ejg]

Thanks, just one bubble in corner of one checkering panel - I managed to fill it and fix with a file. Quite a few other bits to fill also! I will use a high build primer before spraying next time to get rid of the small imperfections. It's not easy and makes me realise how much work you must put into your stocks!

I recently watched a YouTube video on how Sako makes the carbonlight stocks which was very inspiring!

Certainly huge amount of work in each stock. Sometimes you just see your hourly income dwindle away. We have a very low reject rate thankfully but that all does not really help if the manual finishing takes too long.
I have been meeting the Sako engineer Miikka since several years and even discussed carbon stock with him long before they started making stocks. Once the numbers of a certain product are high enough then investing in machinery and more complex moulds makes sense. One sees already on this thread that almost everyone wants a different stock, meaning another mould. For Sako it was easier as they could predict sales for each stock and moulds can pay off. We had been thinking about the Sako method years back but held off due to high investments. The Sako method is very good even though I don't know all details. Two weeks ago I worked on a Carbolight stock, fitting Spartan adapters and bedded the action with a T3 lug as the rifle did not shoot consistently. They do have a few elements that we have been using since years. Good stock, bad bedding solution.

edi

 

[TJ99]

Fantastic to see the time and craftsmanship pay off.

 

[karamoja]

Thanks everyone for all the encouraging comments. It means a lot! This attempt was by no means perfect but I was able to make a success of it. I've had 4 failed attempts leading up to this.

My next project is building a falling block rifle in 220 Swift AI so really looking forward to sharing that with you when I'm able to get the necessary permissions to proceed with it etc.

I love falling blocks. What version inspires you? I'll order a side lever 7x64r please.
Have you looked at the Hagn website in Canada?
AB's neck of the woods I think.
Would live to see progress on that
Best K

 

[Coddy]

Excellent pics, story and workmanship.
Would also be good to get an update when you get it out in the field, it gets a few scrapes and bumps to see how it holds up.

As other have said, i'm sure you will have a few request.

 

[takbok]

Almost ready to lay up 2nd mould half for Sako 75 A3 Hunter stock. First half came out beautifully.



Hairspray fumes are not nice! Been waiting for 6 weeks for my 3M respirator that is on backorder with RS Components thanks to CV-19.

 

[patjack]

Rory looking fabulous, its going to be like all my birthdays and christmas's rolled into one when I get mine from you definitely a keeper as is the 75 thats going to be mated together. Chat soon.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I did use silicoset silicone moulding (a white strong 2 component rubberlike material) in years gone by to easily get undecut parts out of moulds so you could make half moulds as you did but not in fibreglass laminates just the rubber but held in a moulding box somewhat like sand casters use but made of strong plywood.

Alansons

www.alansonsuk.com

 

[Whitebeard]

Great work Tak, the bit that frightens me about making something like this is the bonding together of the two halves and filling the stock, how do you do that, cheers mate

Ian.

 

[alberta boy]

I love falling blocks. What version inspires you? I'll order a side lever 7x64r please.
Have you looked at the Hagn website in Canada?
AB's neck of the woods I think.
Would live to see progress on that
Best K

The Hagn actions are really nice , I've shot a few rifles that came out of Martini and Hagns shop , first class workmanship .

AB

 

[alberta boy]

That's it done! 3355g (7.4lb) complete. Add 220g odd for my ATEC CMM-4 moderator or 350g for ATEC H2.

It's my 6x45 rifle for those who don't already know - ready to continue my good run on the Roe this year. I should really check zero but am sure it won't require much adjustment. Metalwork is coated with Tungsten Cerakote that's been well worn.

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Beautiful work brother , a very practical rifle .

AB

 

[takbok]

I did use silicoset silicone moulding (a white strong 2 component rubberlike material) in years gone by to easily get undecut parts out of moulds so you could make half moulds as you did but not in fibreglass laminates just the rubber but held in a moulding box somewhat like sand casters use but made of strong plywood.

Alansons

www.alansonsuk.com

Thanks, I already use RTV silicone to take moulds of the inletting. Very handy but it can distort somewhat when I clamp the moulds over the new stock to pour the inletting epoxy in.