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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => The Shop => : JTK December 02, 2007, 07:05:49 AM
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Hi, went along to go have a look at a FT / HFT gathering this weekend for the 1st time. mmm. pretty nice. I did not participate will will go along in Jan and have a go. Anyways. Saw hamsters all over the place. Those mounted on the rifle and not running around :) Decided I will make my own. Did not want to drill into my beautiful stock so tried to figure out another way of mounting it. Came up with this. seems to sit 100% sturdy and I may put a long screw with spacer in the back as well into the trigger guard's front mount. Have a look. this may work for others here on the forum and isdarn easy to do. You can carry around different length bolts and spacers if you want it adjustable. JT
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wow that looks really nice and is quite ingenius!! I've been wanted to do something similar to my gun but decided to just go ahead and build a whole new stock. At first I had no idea what you were talking about, hamsters on guns? I've always heard them called palm rests but that might just be a smallbore thing lol :) Has it helped with your off-hand position?
Brian
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havent realy shot with it. just pulled the trigger on a few pellets to see if it is comfortable. Works well. will finish it off and shoot it a bit later the week and report back.
JT
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Nice work JT. I like that it is easily reversable, with no evidence of ever being there. Also I did a slight edit, hope you don't mind.
Mike
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thanks Mike and please edit as my spelling can sometimes be a little problematic :)
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Me spell check,hehe I dropped out of skool in the 9th grade. Just changed 1word to make it alittle more forum friendly, but no harm done. Again nice work and anymore projects you got please share.
Mike
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thanks! I will see what else there is that I can make that is airgun related. Maybe a carry case for when one goes shooting.. mmm.. might need to redo my gun case to accomodate that. Next gun case will be made from beech though. Can someone tell me what stain they use on beech to get it to the "stutzen" color?
JT
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JT, I don't know what color they use, but you will probably have to experiment with differant colors, as the moisture content will be differant. I would try a liquid stain a shade lighter, then darken,if needed,with a shade darker gell stain.
Mike
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I think an oak stain looks like it to me.. will have to have a look..
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Look for a walnut, many of the beech stocks are stained to look like a walnut. Oak is not a prefered wood for gun stocks, the oak stain will be fine, but real oak isn't used because it reacts with the bluing. Common gunstock woods are beech, walnut, maple, and ebony accents. There's a few others that some custom gunstock makers use, but I would say those are the most common hard woods. Of course there is also the laminates, which I believe are usually birch or fir....by the time they have the colors and laminations done they are more plastic than wood. Then of course there are the exotics like cocobolo and bubinga, but don't see many full stocks made out of that stuff(too expensive and hard to get stock blank sizes).
Ok, I went off on a tangent there. What I meant to say is "cool hamster!", I may make one for my B26:)
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thanks Dan.. my stock must be beech but not sure what stain was used. Think it could be oak. wallnut to red/dark
JT
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It's a Gamo 440 or 220? I am just guessing by the pictures. I have never held a 440, but I had two 220's here at one time and they had completely different finishes. One was real light "oak" like color, and the other was closer to a weathered walnut...yours looks closer to the weathered walnut from the pictures, but it's hard to say how your hamster will turn out since it is a different wood altogether. Whatever you use, it's looking good so far!
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Hi Dan. it is a stutzen. Also the wood used for the hamster is beech as well.. maybe just a different by the fact that I think it originates in the east and not in europe.
JT
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JTK - 12/3/2007 3:20 PM
Hi Dan. it is a stutzen. Also the wood used for the hamster is beech as well.. maybe just a different by the fact that I think it originates in the east and not in europe.
JT
I thought it came from.....the beach! (cymbal crash!)
Now I am really wondering if I could attach one of those to my R9 clone without cutting any wood......ah, what the heck, it's only wood:)
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Antique Cherry, Maybe Rosewood? Those are the stains I'm going with when I start making parts from wood.
Mahogany stain may do it, also. I'd say that is definitely a beech stock, just like my HW980, TF99, QB78s and Swedish M38 Mauser. I, for one, like beech a lot.
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yeah, I realy like working with beech. officially my fav wood to work with. very hard and ver stable grain.