Okay experts, time to fess up.
A buddy of mine saw the latest episode of Gun Stories and saw they used a CO2 laser to do gun stocks. Now he's pestering me to do his dads shotgun.
Anybody out there doing / have done this?
Horror stories or a fairly easy job?
Gun Stocks
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The laser and engraving forums over at Sawmill Creek have some pretty good threads on this subject if you are serious about trying.
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Dave Vigness
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That's the problem, he's trying to convince me I'm serious about it. I have no clue on the difficulty / pit falls of it. Don't know if I want to give it a shot, or say hell no.
Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.
Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.
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I suspect that they use a fiber laser which can better deal with the non-flatness of a stock.
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Dave Vigness
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That's what surprised me when I saw the episode. They are using a fiber on the metal parts, but a CO2 on the wood. It does look like they are using fairly flat sided stocks, and a 4" lens might make it doable. At first I thought maybe they are using a bit of a rocker to slightly rotate the stock as it worked like a very slow partial roll rotary, but they pulled it from a flat positioning form at the end of the engraving.