Temesvar wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:21 pm
Amazing workmanship! Thanks for sharing.
Would like to replace a Gamo stock. Interested?
Thank you dear sir!
If you mean making a complete stock from scratch, I'd love to be able to do that. Unfortunately I don't have any wood currently, and I just lost my job a few weeks ago, so can't buy any wood as money is quite scarce these days . But thanks for your trust and kind words, that's truly appreciated mister .
Francois
If everything's so lovely yeah, then why don't I, why don't I, why don't I, why don't I feel lovely?
WOW!!! This is really an amazing job!! Nice finish~
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Taking videos are easy with smart phones nowadays. But you will better to setup an account on Youtube, instantgram (IG) etc, so you can upload it and share the link to someone else. otherwise, sending such a big file on email will be not easy. And with even the build-in app on the phone, it's easy to do simple editing on the videos you take, like triming the size or ratios or length...
LOL! Ken, I really love your enthusiasm dear fellow . Like I said however, I don't have a video recording device, I don't even have a mobile phone. Yes I'm a dinosaur .
The finish you see is not definitive though, I'm still at the first step. I still need to deepen the cuts to form the diamonds, and then re-sand the entire stock and do the final refinish. I've applied a couple coats of oil to prevent the wood from drying too much, and yes it does looks good! I'm very tempted to leave the stock ''natural blonde'', this birch really has a nice grain and shade .
Cheers!
Francois
If everything's so lovely yeah, then why don't I, why don't I, why don't I, why don't I feel lovely?
airmec wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:14 pm
LOL! Ken, I really love your enthusiasm dear fellow . Like I said however, I don't have a video recording device, I don't even have a mobile phone. Yes I'm a dinosaur .
The finish you see is not definitive though, I'm still at the first step. I still need to deepen the cuts to form the diamonds, and then re-sand the entire stock and do the final refinish. I've applied a couple coats of oil to prevent the wood from drying too much, and yes it does looks good! I'm very tempted to leave the stock ''natural blonde'', this birch really has a nice grain and shade .
Cheers!
Francois
Totally agreed that this stock got nice grains and shades! And you can just keep the plain oil finishing and leave the stock natural blonde!
While I did the refinishing on my HW97 and FWB300 stocks, I didn't add stains after the sanding as I found the natural grain looked good too!
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My wife always says she's a dinosaur too... but she's using iPhone16 now after replaced the iPhone11 ProMax with it in last Christmas... LOL!
So your pictures were all taken by a traditional camera?! Well~ no wonder the picture quality are so good!! I left my cameras behind for years because I am too lazy now and went to the convenient side to take photos with cellphones....
airmec wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:39 pm
OK Ken, now you convinced me, she'll stay natural . Nice rifles you got there sir!
And yes, I'm still using my old Canon Eos Rebel T3. Basic model, but does everything I need from a camera, and it never let me down .
Cheers!
LOL! Yeah~ Sometimes you will find the beech stock can also have nice grain and no need to pretend to be walnut with walnut stains~
And the light natrual color could make it brighter and outstanding~ If your collections are all in dark color, you at least need one like that~
Exactly my thoughts . Most of my airguns are dark/ medium dark, indeed a pale one would nicely stand out. Also the grain of the wood does ''pop out'' much more with no stain with beech, and takes a nice golden patina when it starts to age.
Here's some pics of my late 1940's CZ236 (the predecessor of the Slavia 620). This rifle is 75+ years old, see how the beech wood has gained a nice patina. I did refinish this airgun, it's been sanded to bare wood, and it was much paler than it is now, but because of its age it took only about two years to get to that nice honey hue:
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If everything's so lovely yeah, then why don't I, why don't I, why don't I, why don't I feel lovely?
I'm done with the checkering, now I just need to re-sand the stock and add a couple coats of danish oil. Not perfect but not too bad for a first french checkering job.
If everything's so lovely yeah, then why don't I, why don't I, why don't I, why don't I feel lovely?
airmec wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:52 pm
Not perfect but not too bad for a first french checkering job.
Wow..... just Wow!
I was feeling pretty good after I successfully re-oiled a stock. What you consider "not perfect" most people consider to be amazing.
The patterns that you have coaxed from this wood are gorgeous!
Well done,
Rob27
. But thanks for your trust and kind words, that's truly appreciated mister 
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. Most of my airguns are dark/ medium dark, indeed a pale one would nicely stand out. Also the grain of the wood does ''pop out'' much more with no stain with beech, and takes a nice golden patina when it starts to age.
