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Hello all - just as the title suggests - have you ever done this? If so, what material did you use, and why? How'd it turn out in relation to your original idea?

I've posted several examples to look at with explanation how to fabricate and install various comb hardware.

http://www.targettalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=46289

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/sh ... p?t=556255

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/sh ... p?t=555997

http://www.targettalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=46112

http://www.targettalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=46532

Bob
http://www.wkfinetools.com/contrib/bSma ... -index.asp

Bob - thanks for the heads-up! It's not quite what I'm looking for, but those posts are definitely something which I'll refer back to in a few hours.

After scanning the internet for various replacement cheek pieces for the FWB, I've decided to hack up a $7.00 plastic cutting board. I'll then epoxy the strips of cutting board together vertically. My plan is to drill several 3/8" holes, and embed the M8 thread coupling nuts into the underside. A little bit of shaping, and it should work fairly well.

Fireman,

do you just mean making a replacement for the wooden part of an adjustable cheekpiece? Really any bit of wood that's roughly the right shape will work. For my old 1813 stock I think I used various offcuts of softwood. I think the cheekpiece on my Gemini was cut from a block of rubberwood, but there is a lot of epoxy and plastic wood, so it's hard to tell. I prefer to build up the contact edge into roughly the right shape, and then sand down to fit.

Just don't do anything irreversible to your stock before you insure you gave a good glue bond on your plastic....which is unlikely. Mechanical fasteners are a better choice. There are so many plastic formulations that bonding them in the absence of a purpose-made glue like modeling cement on polystyrene is a stab in the dark. High-cyano content glues like PL Premium Construction Adhesive are a better choice than epoxy for guessing.

I've made one for my Walther GX-1 from a length of aluminium angle, a couple of bolts and a piece of self-adhesive foam.
It's really, really ugly (as everyone in my club keeps telling me) . But it works quite well.
I made it because the original wooden one was way too wide for me to get my head in behind the sight without tilting my head right over and I didn't want to butcher the original.

One day I might make a nicer-looking one, but it's fine for now.

http://www.kmwlrs.com/LoggerHead_ACP_Hardware

I've been enjoying using this hardware. For those like me who are still shooting and converting older wood stocked rifles, its worth a look.