A spot of carving...

[Feebo]

I have a collection of air guns. I have rifles, pistols and even a few replica weapons including an AK47 training rifle that fires 9mm Blank ammunition ;D I also have a few antiques that are already worth a bit. Anyway, a good friend of mine gave me a very nice rifle for my collection a while back. It`s a beauitful pneumatic rifle with a rather expensive brace pump, I was chuffed to bits. The stock it has is a bit naff though, it needed to be sat on a much nicer stock. So I had a look at prices.... £500 for a half decent wooden stock. So what I ended up doing was going to my local timber merchant looking for suitable hardwood. I came home with a massive piece of Sapele which is a type of Mahogany. They would only sell me a ten or twelve foot plank of it lol Hardly a plank really, more like a sleeper. So I`ll be making lots of things with it eventually. Anyway, I`m getting on well with the stock I decided to make, I`m doing it from a photograph. I thought I`d share




I`m busy carving a nice Celtic knot on the underside of it at the moment. It`s a really nice pattern that`s looking like it`ll go very well. I can already see it`s going to validate the design.


I`ll post some more pictures as I go along now. Much better than spending hundreds of pounds eh, I get loads of enjoyment out of it and the huge piece of exotic hardwood only cost fifty quid ;D I`ll make all sorts with the rest of it....