10/22 take-down project
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Merovingian
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Could you give a step by step of this?
What tools did you use?
That looks like really clean and quality work, I just picked up a takedown for my wife and she would love something classy and clean like this.
What tools did you use?
That looks like really clean and quality work, I just picked up a takedown for my wife and she would love something classy and clean like this.
Merovingian said:
I'll try, but believe it or not, I did not use any kind of measuring device (probably have a dozen but couldn't find ONE!).
First I wrapped the stock from the pistol grip forward with blue painters tape to protect it.
With the rifle assembled I held the wooden stock up against it and marked the spot for the crosscut. Then I made the cut holding the
straight upper side of the stock (upside down) against the bed of my band saw and guided it by hand.
Next, I disassembled the 10/22 and butted the 2 for-ends together (back to back) to mark the width, depth, and depth of the half-round groove to be routed.
Care must be taken when making marks by measurements as the plastic stock and the wood stock are not the same height or width. I used small pieces of wood to mark and transfer measurements from the original stock to the the wooden stock (again...no measuring tape). For all but the half round cut in the fore end I did all the marking from the TOP of the stock down.
I don't have a lot of woodworking experience, so I really got lucky on this one-shot project.
I'll try to add more detail later, like actual dimensions, when I have the rifle in front of me.
I used my modified mini mill drill (high speed pulley system for use with wood) for all routing.
Merovingian
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snal... make a few bucks and go buy like 10 stocks, modify them with this quality of work and tack $30 on the price of the stock + shipping.
Take the profits and buy another 10/22 :)
Id be your first customer.
Hell, if you did this to a Pink laminate stock... Id be your best friend, youd make my wife and my daughters happy women :)
Take the profits and buy another 10/22 :)
Id be your first customer.
Hell, if you did this to a Pink laminate stock... Id be your best friend, youd make my wife and my daughters happy women :)
Merovingian
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I am most interested in the jig you used or how you did the nice clean takedown latch notch with this 'custom drill setup'?
Also, how hard would it be to get a screw bushing for the additional hole I wonder?
Also, how hard would it be to get a screw bushing for the additional hole I wonder?
Merovingian said:
No jig, just a small machining vice mounted on a 2 axis bed, eyeballing to check that the stock was lined up straight and level in the vice, eyeballing again for centering the tooling on the piece...like I said...I got "lucky"...but still, there's a bit of room for error as no milling was very long in length. Depth was much more critical in the barrel block bedding. Seating point for the receiver is already established on the wood stock, just needs material removal forward of the mounting screw for the TD lock mechanism.
The milling for the latch release was done with a half round router bit and an end mill for the "slot".
That is cool...
Old Hammer Boy
Bearcat
I expect once things settle out, you will see any number of 10/22 TD variations.
ADP
Bearcat
Jam up looking job, I like it!
The Wall said:
Looks about the width of a saw blade, to me... 8)
GasGuzzler
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Uncle Howie said:
Me too. :shock:
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If the gap bothers you, you could use 2 stocks.
eveled said:
No need to buy 2 stocks. You can make the gap as large or small as you want with one. After I made the receiver fit in the shoulder piece, I made the forend to fit snugly to it by carefull measuring the distance from the end to the retaining screw. The only reason I bought two was if I made a mistake on one I'd have another to correct it. As it happened both stocks came out as perfectly as I wanted with only 1/64" gap. I now have a walnut stock to make and after I make it I'll sell the birch one. I already sold one of them for my cost as I made these as a learning curve to apply to the walnut stock.
I posted a few pics on the other ruger forum of how I made it:
Start at post 21 and 25.
http://rugerforum.net/ruger-10-22-rimfire/72850-modified-wood-stock-my-10-22-take-down-2.html
PAVTXER
Single-Sixer
I assume that the reason this was done was so that you could take it down without having to take it out of the stock??? Is that the OEM stock or just a wood stock you wanted to make for that? Never saw a TD in person, so not sure what is what.
As far as I know the takedown 10/22 only comes with a plastic stock. Many of us owners would rather have a wood stock. So we have to modify a standard carbine wood stock to fit the takedown model. The takedown model is made to be disassemble where the barrel meets the receiver. It also comes with a "backpack" style bag for transporting. The bag is made to contain the rifle in its disassembled state (along with a few mags and other stuff).
PAVTXER
Single-Sixer
Ah, that makes sense about the Syn Stock, since most that would want the 10/22 TD would be those on the move and more likely for a nice wood stock to get dented/dinged etc. Maybe that is why I prefer Syn Stock myself. But those are fine looking modifications. Well done.
