Gun stock wood
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For inletting and shaping (not carving) I'd vote:
1)cherry is easiest
2)walnut if it's dense
3)red maple
3)Plain sugar maple
other woods used less often as stock woods in the original ML era such as birch, beech, are easy to work.
4) Curly hard maple is not only hard work but great care needs to be taken to not pop out curl sometimes
1)cherry is easiest
2)walnut if it's dense
3)red maple
3)Plain sugar maple
other woods used less often as stock woods in the original ML era such as birch, beech, are easy to work.
4) Curly hard maple is not only hard work but great care needs to be taken to not pop out curl sometimes
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Pre-carved. :sorry: That was the wine talking wbyman. I just couldn't resist. Better go with Rich's answer.
Johnny Tremain
Silversmith in training
Ive done a lot of woodworking on furniture with walnut. Most military firearms were stocked with this wood. Im making a "poorboy" all steel virginy rifle. Just seemed right to use American walnut. Oh yeah looks real with a black walnut stain & linseed oil finsh.
So far, most of my 'oopes' I've been able to correct. Some ya can see, some not....oh well that's part of makin' rifles.
Olie gave me this chunk of birdseye maple.....talk about some hard, hard stuff. It's difficult to pinpoint excatcly where the grain is on this stuff and which way it goes.
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