Gunstock Carving

[smonette]

:-/ Where can I get free gunstock Carving patterns?

[grumpy560]

Depending on what you want to carve you can get them anywhere. Gun stock carving is still relief carving. Download a scene from the internet,or scan a picture then go into properties on your printer, set it on outline or colorbook and print it.If it isn't sized right then try again or take it to a copier and shrink or enlarge it to your deminsions
Hope this helps

[paso]

I too am looking for a book of patterns and instructions on how to relief carve gunstocks. Some of the carvings I would like produce are simular to those on the fine old shutzen rifles. Not the heavy type but like that you see on fine funiture . Also, I see a book titled 'Wildlife carving in Relief' by Irish. It stated 'relief in less then two inches of wood.' I assume that is two inches deep. Maximum depth for what I am looking for is about 1/16 to 1/8 inch max to be carved in conjunction with normal checkering of a gun stock. My email is * *LWettstein@aol.com * * *thanks. Paso

[Shay]

There's a rather expensive book available called Checkering & Carving Gunstocks - around $45 - available from Fox although not on the website. Fox is also publishing a new gunstock carving book due out in Sept. of 2002.