maverick2
FNG
One of the things on my list of "to do" items now for a while has been to find a raised cheek piece to install on my Savage 99 "project rifle" to raise the comb to a height where my eye naturally lines up with the scope. I couldn't find a leather one that looked/functioned like I wanted it to, and all the pre-fab plastic ones looked pretty cheesy to me, so I played around with some Kydex during my downtime over the holidays and made one to custom fit the 99 stock as well as my face. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out (particularly since this was my first effort with Kydex.) I "trial and errored" some patterns with paper, used one piece of Kydex to conform to the wood comb, a second piece to serve as the new raised comb, and then fiddled with heights and angle of the second piece to get the fit I wanted. Once I got the configuration right, I attached the 2 pieces together with epoxy at the kydex edges in contact with one another, filled the void space between the 2 with expandable foam, and then sealed the exposed ends with epoxy. It ended up being pretty simple to do. Getting the right fit was easy and quick -- found myself spending more time trimming and playing with the aesthetics part to get it to look the way I wanted. When complete, the finished cheek piece weighed in a little under 5 ounces. Had I to do it again, I'd have trimmed a little less expandable foam out of the open end (which required more epoxy) and used the thinner sheet of Kydex (.06) for the outer exposed surface instead of the thicker stuff (no reason to go thicker with the inside filled with foam and epoxy). Had I done these 2 things it would have resulted in one that weighed less than 4 ounces.
