GunnyUSMC
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My father in law got me started doing stock repair back in 1988. He was an old Gunsmith and tough me a lot of old tricks of the tread. When he passed away, I was the only one that had learned to do stock work from him. He had three sons that never cared for working on guns.
In 2006 I was told that I had tonsil cancer. I was given six months to live if I didn’t go through aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments. I gave the doctor one shot. The treatments almost killed me, but I made it. It took me a year to recover enough so that I could go back to work on light duty and another three years before I could go back to full duty. During that time I thought about how much about stock work I knew and if I had died, I had not passed it on to anyone. That’s when I started posting about doing stock repairs. I’ve taken on students and tried to help as many people as can.
I have always said that there is more than one way to skin a cat, and even more ways to do stock repairs. I have learned from mistakes and from other stocksmiths and even tough myself a few things.
I’m more then happy to answer questions if y’all have them. Even the questions that you may think are silly, they can’t be answered if they are not asked.
I retire in August and plan to chase some women for a month or so, but then I plan to get back to doing repairs and making some detailed post to cover different types of repairs.
Tomorrow evening I’ll try to get the blending finished on Carbine85’s stock and post some pics.
In 2006 I was told that I had tonsil cancer. I was given six months to live if I didn’t go through aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments. I gave the doctor one shot. The treatments almost killed me, but I made it. It took me a year to recover enough so that I could go back to work on light duty and another three years before I could go back to full duty. During that time I thought about how much about stock work I knew and if I had died, I had not passed it on to anyone. That’s when I started posting about doing stock repairs. I’ve taken on students and tried to help as many people as can.
I have always said that there is more than one way to skin a cat, and even more ways to do stock repairs. I have learned from mistakes and from other stocksmiths and even tough myself a few things.
I’m more then happy to answer questions if y’all have them. Even the questions that you may think are silly, they can’t be answered if they are not asked.
I retire in August and plan to chase some women for a month or so, but then I plan to get back to doing repairs and making some detailed post to cover different types of repairs.
Tomorrow evening I’ll try to get the blending finished on Carbine85’s stock and post some pics.