Employees work in the gunstock area at Cousineau Wood Products in North Anson recently. A grant has allowed the company, a manufacturer of a variety of wooden items, including gunstocks, an opportunity to expand and increase employee numbers and efficiency.

The Buck Knives Co. is a client of Cousineau Wood Products in North Anson, which manufactures pressed wooden knife handles such as the one shown here, which would become part of the company’s folding knives.

Brody Cousineau, part owner of Cousineau Wood Products in North Anson, holds a finished gunstock made at the company recently. Employee Neil Silkman, in background, monitors a computer-guided machine that is drilling a rough piece of wood to turn it into a gunstock with precise dimensions for the firearm manufacturer.

Mike Pelletier makes stencils of gunstocks on raw wood stock that eventually will be turned into finished gunstocks for firearms at Cousineau Wood Products in North Anson.