Got a new Springfield 'A' stock

[Buckshot]

...............This came from GPC for $185.

http://www.fototime.com/5A9C729F2CBB2CA/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/9CB9299F792B1D1/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/32367C46553AE9C/standard.jpghttp://www.fototime.com/DDE07ADF075C5B2/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/589CFB044AC4E1D/standard.jpg

Superb inletting! Darned if I'll ever find a handguard to match!

.................Buckshot

[bradh]

Rick please post a picture when you have an action mounted in it.

[wrench]

Beautiful stock, wow!

[Jim]

Ric, man, that's a BEAUTIFUL stock!!

[ph4570]

Very nice.

[Doc Highwall]

That is a NICE stock. I to would like to see a picyure of it when the rifle is all together.

[zomby woof]

Wow...

[Ben]

I'm like you Rick, finding a handguard to match will be virtually impossible.

Looks like it was inletted with a laser. VERY impressive inletting.

A truly outstanding, fiddle backed, piece of wood.

Ben

[square butte]

WOW! Who the heck is GPC?

[Jack Stanley]

Gun Parts Corporation , formerly Numrich . Question is who made the stock for them to sell , it doesn't look like Boyds work , the inletting and angles look to nice .

Jack

[square butte]

Yep, same question here!

[dragonrider]

Oh my that is nice wood, how are you going to finish it. Oil I would think???

[dpaultx]

Might give these guys, thecollectorsource.com (http://www.thecollectorsource.com/store/1559021/product/03WHG#), a call. They have some pretty nice looking "new" unissued 03 handguards.

http://www.thecollectorsource.com/files/1559021/uploaded/1903handguards%20008.jpg

There are probably lots of other sources including custom shops that could make you a matching handguard. I'd first just try to find a nice piece of matching fiddleback walnut stock and go from there.

Doug

[swheeler]

That is a nice stock, beautiful tiger stripe!

[RU shooter]

Is it indeed walnut? never seen a pc. with the striping spaced that close ,I have on Birch and maple though

[Gtek]

Way to pretty to put straight grain on top. I would have to take a couple more pictures between front of receiver and front and measure stripes and start hitting the wood guy's for a piece that could be made into top wood. YOU SCORED! Gtek

[Buckshot]

RU shooter, it's indeed walnut.

dragonrider, I figured to simply use BLO.

Jack Stanley, I have a Boyds "C" stock I'd bought for the rifle but the stock re-inforcing bolts weren't installed. When I got GPC's e-mail on these I bit my lip and ordered one. I'm not a great woodworker and the fact that they had the bolts installed and the stock was finished appealed to me.

The stock might have been made (my guess) in Italy? There was a holographic round sticker inside the bbl channel. Around it's perimeter I could barely makeout the printing but the spelling of the words or parts of words struck me as Italian. Plus it was inspected by "Guiseppe" :-).

dpaultx, thanks for the info. I currently have a couple original walnut '03 handguards on hand but they in no way match. Maybe these guys might have one with some of that fiddleback in it? It'd be nice. JUst checked their website and they''ll be closed until this fall it appears.

http://www.fototime.com/FAE697FAF99DE7A/standard.jpg

I have this M98/08 Brazilian Mauser with a full fiddleback stock AND handguard. They both look like they came out of the same plank.

..............Buckshot

[6.5 mike]

Thought he made puppets, looks like you won the wood lotto with that one Rick.

[Jack Stanley]

Thanks Buckshot , I was wondering just who GPC was getting them from .

Jack