Veneered Stocks?

[CENTURION]

I have heard manufacturers are actually making stocks out of composite like particle board and laminating them?

[grauhanen]

Perhaps you are thinking of laminated stocks.  They are made from laminated veneers and can be produced in a variety of styles and colors.  They are quite popular, especially when people want to get an after-market stock of a different shape.  Companies like Boyds Gunstocks, for example make laminated stocks in different styles for a wide range of rifles.  Weihrauch offers some of its HW97's and HW77's in laminated stocks.

[CENTURION]

Perhaps you are thinking of laminated stocks.  They are made from laminated veneers and can be produced in a variety of styles and colors.  They are quite popular, especially when people want to get an after-market stock of a different shape.  Companies like Boyds Gunstocks, for example make laminated stocks in different styles for a wide range of rifles.  Weihrauch offers some of its HW97's and HW77's in laminated stocks.

I understand the laminated stocks, they are beautiful on the higher end guns they offer now. I'm talking about some lower end guns, or guns they don't specify the wood type on. I have seen a few reviews on air guns where the wood is actually decorated particle board, or compressed wood made to look like grain.

[Kailua]

Could you share those reviews?  Sounds interesting to see the weight of those stocks.

[anuthabubba]

Particle or glued/compressed wood product can be easily made into exotic shapes, covered with bed-liner type finishes and be advertised as a 'wood' stock.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Son-in-Law is into making knives and shared this Youtube video with me for ideas on grips.
Called Micarta, the process uses fabric / canvas and epoxy / fibreglass resins compressed together.
Thought it might be an option along the lines of what you're thinking.

[GP2004]

I think the OP is referring to the Walther Terrus. I don't own one but I read a review that said the stock was made of wood fiber.

[bantam5s]

Son-in-Law is into making knives and shared this Youtube video with me for ideas on grips.
Called Micarta, the process uses fabric / canvas and epoxy / fibreglass resins compressed together.
Thought it might be an option along the lines of what you're thinking.

Micarta is too ridged and would likely snap at the thinner areas. It's a great durable ware resistant material for knife handles or pistol grips, but that's about it ( Micarta is any thin  medium that is stacked and soaked In epoxy resin to form a solid ridged material , even paper ) if you used fiber board and epoxy it might work, but be way too heavy.

[CENTURION]

I think the OP is referring to the Walther Terrus. I don't own one but I read a review that said the stock was made of wood fiber.

Looking at photos on some of the dealers sites it looks like a lot of them are going to this. There seems to be no visible grain in the stock, unlike some of the higher end manufacturers they specify beech or walnut.

[gwyn]

I have a Gamo Forest with a wood stock, a very light Beech colour, i understand on a Spanish website that it is manufactured from compressed wood,like MDF?
It looks OK,thought it was Beech !
Don.