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Offline RebelSon

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Bending/straightening stock or blanks
« on: April 19, 2023, 02:10:06 AM »
A recent post about a right hand gun with cast on made me think...has anyone ever applied cast on/off to a straight stock? Changed an existing one? I know I've read here about straightening blanks.

I do electrical work and for a couple years during the 2008 era when things weren't great I took a job at a shipyard working on very large yachts. The carpenters would form some unbelievable bends in wood. I know this could be done using hot or even cold water, clamping, etc. I would imagine on a straight stock you could apply cast off using these methods, for example, if one was so inclined and set on it. I know I'm talking about both stocks, guns, blanks...but what methods, if any, have people used to get things where they want them to go?

I figured this should be educational and a fun topic.

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Offline davec2

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Re: Bending/straightening stock or blanks
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2023, 02:21:08 AM »
Do a search for "bending wood with hot oil"
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Offline Carl Young

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Re: Bending/straightening stock or blanks
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2023, 02:40:03 AM »
Here is a link to an older thread on bending stocks, I suggest you particularly pay attention to Davec2, as well as JerryWH and others who have done it.
https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=55219.msg552537#msg552537
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Re: Bending/straightening stock or blanks
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2023, 04:09:33 AM »
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Offline Jerry V Lape

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Re: Bending/straightening stock or blanks
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2023, 09:26:01 AM »
I bent a curly sugar maple stock using hot oil and two heat guns.  It had to be moved from cast on to cast off and the toe of the stock was twisted to the wrong side.  I built a sturdy frame to hold the wood steady from the tang forward.  the frame also gave me a place to use a few wood clamps ( the kind that ratchet on a bar with a pistol grip.  About an hour into the heating process the wood yielded slowly to added pressure with the clamps.  It rotated the toe and moved 1/2 inch sideway to give the correct cast off and toe position. Stayed there.  So I recommend a solid frame as very important.  If I do it again I will probably use a steam jacket instead of hot oil as it does soak into the wood more than I wanted.  It was unfinished wood.
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