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If you want to restock your Marlin with something a bit different,
you came to the right place.
PLEASE NOTE- All of my stocks are NOT FIT OR FINISHED, the photos show finished examples
to
show you what can be done if you are willing to do a bit of work on your own.
The page on "How to fit
a gunstock" will show you what is involved in doing it yourself.
Plain wood stocks start at 150.00 for straight
grip, 200.00 for pistolgrip butt and forearm.
What you see here are mostly examples of high grade wood, which starts
at 300.00 up to 1200.00
I can provide almost any grade of wood your budget will allow.
If you want someone to fit
and finish your project, it can get rather spendy, anywhere from free if you can con a friend into it, to 3-500 for a midrange
project, up to a couple thousand for top name jobs.
Most of my customers do it themselves just because of that, or out
of personal sense of accomplishment.
Frankly if it was cheap or easy, EVERYONE would have a custom stock.
| Marlin shotgun pattern, by Curt Hardcastle |
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| Checkered Steel shotgun buttplate on Marlin |
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| Crescent Cowboy stock in high grade Quilt Maple |
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| Treebone Silhouette rifle, Marlin 1894 .44-40 |
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| Marlin Cowboy Crescent compared to factory stock |
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With the popularity of Cowboy action shooting and Lever Action silhouette, the new
crop of Marlins are selling like hotcakes. Unfortunately, mass
production gunstocks lack the style of the early guns, so I decided to see what I could do about that.
Note the refined lines, slender sculpted combs, and scalloped schnabble
pistolgrips. Forearms are likewise slender and straight as were early Marlins.
If you want something that
is going to stand out, by all means order something fancy or different. With 5000 dry gunstock blanks in inventory, I'm
sure I can find something to suit your taste or budget. Of course when you upgrade the buttstock wood, you will also want
a forearm of matched wood.
These patterns are available
for the current crop of Marlin 39, 1894, 1895, and 336 in most variations.
AS ALWAYS- All Treebone stocks are 90% inlet and profiled. NONE are "drop in fit", so
be prepared for some work. The average person
will spend about 20 hours fitting and finishing a stock. This is not for everybody, but for the person willing to put in the
patient effort, the reward is a one-of-a-kind hierloom
that will be a source of pride and enjoyment for more than a lifetime. You cannot buy that in a store.
This is a new pattern by Curt Hardcastle, a shotgun butt for
the Marlins. See the top two photos on
the page for a prime example. This particular stock is cut in Special Select
thinshell walnut, and was valued at 650.00
The same set of stocks in Select Standard walnut would be 200.00
This
stock set uses my checkered steel shotgun buttplate (also shown in top photos) or it can be
custom ordered without the
buttplate inlet (for a recoil pad) for 25.00 additional.
This 336 started life in 1968 as a .30-30 RC (barrel band Carbine) I sent it back
to Marlin, who did the Cowboy rifle conversion (octagon barrel and full mag tube) for me. 'I restocked it with a
nice feather crotch walnut buttstock that went plain and straight through the wrist. The forearm came from marlin when they did the conversion, so I stripped it down a bit, then stained and finished
the butt and forearm alike.
This is a good example of a stock job done by a customer who had no experience
with stock work. Under the wing of John McGlothin, who kept him out of trouble, Tom turned his old 39 into a pretty nice little
rifle. He stripped and reshaped the original forearm, then stained and finished the new buttstock and original forearm
alike. Nice Job Tom!
| Tom's 39 Marlin |
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| Gloss finish by George Denys |
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| Same stock, rubbed out finish |
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| The Flip side... |
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| Special Select wood |
Here is a 39 for Rimfire silhouette built by Joe Duchene for
his wife Marlys. I knew Joe for a few years, and some of you may recall magazine articles he's written in the past. Unfortunately
he passed away a couple of years ago, but his work remains.
Marlys picked out this piece of wood for the project, but
I was afraid it would be a bit too cross-grained in the wrist. Joe assured me that it would be a light recoiling rifle, and
he pinned the wrist for strength. Wood with grain flow like this is quite nice to look at, but not very strong, something
to consider if you are buying wood for a demanding application.
| Jay Wayman's Marlin |
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The picture shown above was emailed to me by customer Jay Wayman. I am always
pleased to see work like this. Jay did a great job detailing this, and no doubt has many hours of work in it.
Also note
the squared custom lever, done in the early marlin pattern, this is something I would like to see Marlin offer on the pistolgrip
actions, currently only available on the straight grip models.
In the meantime, if you want one, you have to do
it yourself...
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This is my 336 Cowboy, .38-55. Fitted with and MVA Tang sight and MVA Beach Combination
front sight, it is a pretty good all-around gun. (This stock was refit
to a 1894 .38-40 Custom Project and is featured in SHOOT!
Magazine, July-August 2005 issue.) Shown with my Shotgun buttstock and forearm in Select Extra Fancy grade American walnut. Fitted with my checkered steel buttplate, this style buttstock is designed with the silhouette
shooter in mind. It gives a high comb for control off hand at longer
ranges, as well as being able to somewhat tame the recoil in heavier loads.
This is a good style buttstock for the straight grip 336, 1895 as well as the 1894 Marlins
In select
standard walnut, this style butt and forearm start at 150.00
Varmint guns have thumbholes, why can't a cowboy have a thumbhole? All kidding
aside, this is a stock I cut because the knot hole was clean and through- unusual enough that I thought it worthwhile to build
for something out of the ordinary. Occasionally I find interesting "defects" and will carve a stock with them.
I can also offer these stocks in
Laminates, but the choice of colors is limited at this time. The color shown is a Remington brown. I also have grey/brown and blue/yellow (looks better than it sounds.)
Price in laminate is
200. for straight grip butt and forearm, a pistolgrip set is 240.
If you want to do a nice checkering job, or insist
on perfect inletting when you are fitting a stock, this type of wood is not your friend. It tends to be a bit chippy. Despite
all that is implied in the marketing of laminate, it is still low grade birch and cheap glue. It is different however.
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