Best recoil pad to leather-wrap?

[FrankenMauser]

I want to go with a leather-covered recoil pad for my current project, and possibly some in the future.

What are the best pads to start with, that can handle some material removal?

 

[FrankenMauser]

Nobody leather-wraps recoil pads, any more?

 

[Clemson]

It's almost a lost art. Ask on the Accurate Reloading Forum: http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/9411043

 

[FrankenMauser]

Thanks. But...

Not a member, and I have never found the place appealing enough to be worth joining.

 

[Pahoo]

Lots of options

I want to go with a leather-covered recoil pad

Haven't provided much detail/specifics but see if this link, fits. There are also custom leather crafters that do a lot of western application. I have made a few myself, for lever guns and SideLocks. .....

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=leather+recoil+pad&_sacat=0

Good luck and;
Be Safe !!!

 

[FrankenMauser]

Thanks. But, no.

This is more of what I have in mind: https://shootingsportsman.com/leatherpad/
And, a video of Larry Potterfield doing such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRhfi43bQM8

A leather-wrapped pad, rather than a cuff.

I was hoping for recommendations for the best brand of pads to start with, that can handle being ground down far enough to keep the leather flush with the stock.
The voids in some brands and types of butt pads show through the finished leather wrap.

 

[Pahoo]

Very interesting.

A leather-wrapped pad, rather than a cuff.

Excellent reply and information. I thank you for advancing my "Learning Curve"

Be Safe !!!

 

[FrankenMauser]

Thanks for the help, for those of you that chimed in.

For posterity...
I think I'll try a Pachmayr pad, as that's what seems to be the choice of the few people still doing this type of work.

If it doesn't work, I may come back and let you know.
If it does... I may be too busy celebrating to remember.

 

[Nathan]

I think you chose right. My smith acted like they grind easiest. I think that method will leave the leather plus to the stock. I wonder if there is a way to grind it a bit smaller all around?

 

[4V50 Gary]

We were taught how to leather wrap a pad, but I don't remember. Now our stockmaking instructor left to start another school. Thank you Glen for all you tried to teach me.

 

[Romulus]

Larry uses a Pachmayr

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DZRhfi43bQM8&ved=2ahUKEwjy75_gq5DqAhVQwqYKHcqZCzsQwqsBMAB6BAgKEAM&usg=AOvVaw30D8Ckvv8UirFdS7a-EPm4

 

[Romulus]

Oops

 

[FrankenMauser]

Nah.
You were just trying to help.

 

[Romulus]

Necroposting and repeating your links...you're too kind. Hope it worked out for you in the end.
Rom

 

[FrankenMauser]

The project has been postponed.
I was working with a very poorly shaped and inletted stock, hoping I could make it work, but finally reached a breaking point. It was just too screwed up from the outset, and I've set the unfinished stock aside for inlay and checkering practice in the future.

Until I get an new stock/blank in, that project is on hold.
I have no idea how long that will take. I'm not certain what style I want to go with, now. And I'm already 6 months into the wait for two Richards stocks that were supposed to have shipped before the Coronapocalypse. (Even when factoring in the Richards lies about shipping times.)


If you're curious about the stock, there was a short discussion here, before I gave up on it: https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=605669

 

[Romulus]

I'll check it out, thanks for linking. Best,
Rom