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Do I carve stocks for Winchester levers? You bet!
Shortly I will hang up some pictures of some of my patterns for the model 1892, 1894, model 95 and 1886, to name
a few. I am also getting up to speed for some of the more popular import guns. Meanwhile, if you are in need of Winchester
wood, don't hesitate to ask. I got them real-time, if not on the web yet.
These are my patterns for the Win. model 1892 and 1894.
A couple different grades of wood are shown as an example.
This is a blank a customer picked out for a 1886 Winchester project he is working
on. This is the ideal classic crotch layout that we want for a highgrade rifle. Being a center cut 1/4 saw, it is the prime
cut in a crotch, and displays equally on both sides.
The grain will flow perfectly straight throught the wrist. While you may see "fancier" blanks, it is
very rare to find this layout showing perfectly on both sides. The photo below is after carving.
this is the carved 86 stock from the blank shown above, note this is the reverse
side, equally as nice. It has been wet with paint thinner to reveal some color, a good finish will reveal more yet.
This stock set sold for 620. , much of the value is the uniform quality of the layout, classic Winchester.
While good wood is much harder to find today than 100 years ago, even then Winchester complained they
could not find the quality and quantity of good wood they needed.
While it might be said that Winchester did not use Claro, and some people claim it inferior to American
walnut, the picture speaks for itself.
Here is an original 73 Winchester .32 WCF owned by Ron Troyer of Whittington
Center. Ron had a slab of Walnut grown at Whittington and wanted a stock cut from it. This stock was pretty much hand shaped
as I did not have a shotgun pattern for the 73. He did a nice job making a new buttstock mate up with the original forearm.
Ron used this at the 2005 Lever action Silhouette Nationals and pretty
much cleaned house on everyone.
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| Custom 1886 Deluxe |
This 1886 started life as a straightgrip rifle. The customer ordered exhibiton
grade wood in the pistolgrip deluxe pattern. John McGlothin handled most of the work, except for the checkering and engraving.
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