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[Comfortably_Numb]

No matter what you do to, it is still beech.

I have built somewhere near 20 guns in beech. It works fine. Most of it I used was harder than cherry , some red maple and some walnut. Awfull hard to come by these days in a blank.

 

[BlackHillsBob]

thanks.

 

[Rudyard]

Comortabley numb ? Rudyard

 

[BlackHillsBob]

please tell me what that means, it must be good but im dense to what it means.

 

[BlackHillsBob]

beech is crap and sorry i tried to make it better than it is, its crap.

 

[54ball]

Cherry, Walnut, Maple, Ash... I like all of them. Cherry and Walnut need no stain. English Walnut is a Prince of woods. They all have their beauty.

The original longrifle I own is a little .32 Kentucky J. Roosa from about 1840. It has a fantastic curly sugar maple stock. That grade of wood today would be....I could not even guess. It was suggested that I have the barrel bored or lined to make it a shooter again. No...She's done her duty. Now her job is to be admired, handled, brighten up a room and bring a smile.

With that said....

I have a soft spot for CVAs, Jukars and Traditions. Without those I may have no interest in the stuff I do now. So when it comes to those...Dance with one what brought you.

Some of the most interesting figure I have ever seen has been on a Traditions stock. Some of them finish absolutely gorgeous. The Tower pistol from years back with the colonial stain...that made a very pretty pistol. That beech or whatever it is holds stain very nicely.
One reason I think that wood was chosen for those guns is that it finishes so well.

 

[WRustyLane]

+1 on the Tru-Oil. I've used it on my M1 Garand as an old WWII gentleman told me to do so. I've even used it on my AK-47--about 20 coats to fill in a stamped number in the stock. I always sanded or steel wooled in between the applications.

 

[Sinner]

I had an older CVA mountain rifle kit I bought in 1980. It had beautifully figured wood. (Why did I sell it?!)

 

[BlackHillsBob]

years ago i bought a canadian 303 infield. the two piece stock was of beech. it had been pressure treated with linseed oil. i bought a product at the hardware store that took the oil out of the wood and it took about 2 weeks to do it. then i finished the wood as if it was new wood. it turned out really nice. a dr. friend saw it and offered me a really good price for it so i sold it to him and he took it back to montana with him. wish i would have kept it, the metal was really good on it.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

beech is crap and sorry i tried to make it better than it is, its crap.

Are you OK there BHB?

 

[32 ballard xl]

Are you OK there BHB?

Yeah, BHB, lighten up. Beech is a good, serviceable hard wood. is it pretty? Not as pretty as some others, I mean come on, there are folks out there raving over plastic stocks, that cheek up about as pleasantly as a dead carp, and smell worse.

 

[BlackHillsBob]

yes im ok and thanks for asking. not every one here can afford the high end kits or guns. if one can afford only the cva/s with their beech wood stocks and well cut barrels, why not make them the best they can ever be. that has been proven by im sorry as i forgot his posting name. his full stock is beautiful and i bet it shoots well also. im doing a custom gun now in cherry, their may be a redue of a walnut one from the same customer, both will look real good, how ever he has a cva beech wood stocked rifle he want me to make better than new. thats the one i look forward to as one can really make that one be beyond what it ever was ment to be. one of my native american patients said to me once, you must be part native american as you can take crap and make it look really good. years later when i did the dna thing, he was right, i am part native american. we are used to taking junk and making it better.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Careful there BHB, I'd hesitate to denigrate NA's in the current political climate. It doesn't bother me, but there are others that might go nutz.

 

[BlackHillsBob]

i live with them work with them and my son married a native american, i have kin on 2 rez/s grandchildren and great granchildren. never ever had problems with getting along. they laugh a lot more than the rest of the world, and i like that.what i like also that is different, when i go to a special event, i at my age is sat with the elders and best of all we are fed first. i do appreciate your advice also and know how to act over on the rez.