Part 1 of this video set covers Design, Material Selection, and cutting.

Materials described:

• MOP – Mother of Pearl
• Green Abalone
• Reconstituted stone
• Kirinite – An acrylic-based material available in a myriad of colours and patterns that is used in making pistol grips and knife handles – see https://kirinite.com/
• G10 – another gunstock material – glass-based epoxy resin laminate.
• Glow-in-the-dark acrylic
• Abalam – reconstituted Abalone.
• Wood – he uses it at about 50-70 thou thick, and he coats it (top and bottom) with CA glue before working with it.
• He also uses a sample of what he calls ‘Atlantine’ (sic) in a red color to replicate the StewMac logo.