I'm a big fan of making stuff myself, so I thought I'd put up some pics of the gun stand/vice/workstation I built a few years back out of some scrap plywood. I originally made this as an exercise to practice using some drafting software and to have a try at some woodwork - after all, you can't say you've successfully designed something until you've made a prototype! The upside is I have a full set of pdf drawings free on my dropbox if anyone else wants to have a crack making one:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nsxfc8uqqbr4y ... 0Stand.pdf Some of the features:
a clamp to hold the butt so the rifle doesn't move
a recessed tray to hold general tools and parts
holes for jags and brushes of different calibres
cutouts to locate my magnetic parts tray, a couple of spray cans and my solvent jar
rubber feet to stop the whole thing sliding around when using a cleaning rod
Pics:
- Gun stand 01.jpg (684.69 KiB) Viewed 4083 times
The clamp setup open and closed.
- Gun stand clamp.jpg (483.12 KiB) Viewed 4083 times
A couple of points if you actually want to make one:
the bottom and side strips i made from 3mm ply not 19mm.
if I was going to do it again, I wouldn't make the recess go all the way to the edge to give the 3mm ply something stronger to attach to
I had to add a block of wood to help locate the butt to help stop it sliding out the back.
- back stop.jpg (137.23 KiB) Viewed 4083 times
PS: Yeah I know this thread is ages old, but I love making stuff and getting new ideas for projects. Also sorry for the potato quality pics, the cameras in phones in 2016 weren't very good.
Pro Tip: Taking the gun off safe increases the velocity by 100%...