I may have bit off more than I can chew.

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A friend brought me this abused Hercules 410 and wondered if I can do anything with it.
 

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Hate to be the first, but, maybe a wall hanger might be its near future. Wood stocks can be iffy in finding the right fit for some of those old ones.
 
Hate to be the first, but, maybe a wall hanger might be its near future. Wood stocks can be iffy in finding the right fit for some of those old ones.
It's not the original stock. I made a drawing of it and am going to cut it back to the wrist and do an armorer's repair.
This is more of a winter time waster than anything.
 
Post some pics of the receiver. Maybe we can figure out who it was made by. That scallop on the rear of the receiver screams early Stevens to me.
 
Post some pics of the receiver. Maybe we can figure out who it was made by. That scallop on the rear of the receiver screams early Stevens to me.
It says Hercules. It's made by Stevens. Parts aren't available, so I made an extractor for it.
I'm going to get some Poplar and make a stock.
The action and barrel are in good shape.
 
May be a candidate for the wall-hanger hall of fame. Maybe Sarco has a piece of wood that will work.
 
Just for grins and giggles, take a look at the Savage 219 single shot break open rifles. The pictures sure look a lot like the design of what you are working on. Numrich has those stocks available.
 
I started by laminating 3 pieces of 5/8" kiln dried poplar. I then did a rough scribe of the "original" stock. Then I used a rasp and half round bastard file to do the fitting.
I'm going to take it to him tomorrow to see how the wrist fits his hand before doing any sanding work.
 

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After 4 hours if rasp and file work, 1 hour of sandpaper work, and
English Walnut stain came close to color matching. But there is no possible way to match the grain structure without making a new forearm.
The main reason I fixed it was it was gifted to my friend to teach his kids to rabbit hunt. Now he wants to teach his grandkids.
 

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Pretty darned good job there. I bet he is happy with that. Someone had to make a stock in the first place so if you are patient and careful I see no problem making a functional replacement. I find often times it is easier to make a new one than try to modify another used one. But if you have time on your hands----------:thumbup:
 
Wow, looks great!
Im a decent metalworker, but wood is like voodoo mysticism to me.:(

Im always amazed when folks make awesome stuff out of trees. TREES!:D
It took learning to do auto body work and use a dolly and hammer to be able to learn the process of shaping wood with a rasp.
 
I made many stocks when I ran a small rural gunshop between 1973 and 2003.
A customer once asked me how do you know how to make a gunstock.
I replied, “Thats the easy part, you just cut away everything that does not look like a gun stock!”
From his expression, I don’t think that was the answer he was looking for.:rofl:

But seriously, I’ll add this, after you have made a half dozen and you realize the hours of hand work that goes into it, you learn the cheapest part of the gunstock is the wood itself! That’s when I stopped using just any old piece of walnut and started using only semi fancy to fancy figured blanks. Some of the last ones I made came from customers own wood they supplied to me.
 
I made many stocks when I ran a small rural gunshop between 1973 and 2003.
A customer once asked me how do you know how to make a gunstock.
I replied, “Thats the easy part, you just cut away everything that does not look like a gun stock!”
From his expression, I don’t think that was the answer he was looking for.:rofl:
But seriously, I’ll add this, after you have made a half dozen and you realize the hours of hand work that goes into it, you learn the cheapest part of the gunstock is the wood itself! That’s when I stopped using just any old piece of walnut and started using only semi fancy to fancy figured blanks. Some of the last ones I made came from customers own wood they supplied to me.
That's funny, but accurate. Just keep taking a step back and look at it. Then go back to work.
 
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