Winchester Rifle Project part 2

Next, I turned my attention to making a new stock. And since we're going wild here on this project, I wasn't going to make any old wood stock work. Instead of a factory replacement, I opted to carve one from a tree stump.

My intention is to make a gunstock with a blend of wood and colored epoxy…. Sort of like one of those nice waterfall tables you see these days.

I built a mold from thin plexiglass to put the stump wood in.

I mixed two part epoxy with some blue dye, and poured it in the mold. I had sealed the sides of the mold with clear tape to prevent the epoxy from running out of the mold. I passed a torch over the surface of the epoxy before it dried to pop the bubbles that came to the surface.