Thanks for the info DarkAlman! Not exactly what I had in mind but informative none the less. (nice FAL btw)
To clarify what I meant as in stock was more in terms of something like an M14's, which might be easier to make out of a solid piece of wood, though your method gives me ideas for building other things.
The reason I'm asking is because I would like to build an SVT40, and as I soon discovered, its near impossible to find a RS wooded stock to buy and modify

. So I'm
thinking about scratch-building one.
-beta