Looking for a Stock Blank

[Killerangel]

I'm having a rifle built. The only piece I do nor have yet is the wood for the stock. It needs to me at least 57" long by 10" wide by 2 3/4 " thick. I want the best curly maple I can get. I need to know where to get it....who to contact. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steven B.

 

[EC121]

Harrison Gun Stocks – Harrison Sawmill Nathan Cox can supply anything you want.

 

[Larry Akers]

Pecatonica River Long Rifle Supply. Great people to work with and their grade five wood is fabulous.

 

[rich pierce]

Harrison Gun Stocks – Harrison Sawmill Nathan Cox can supply anything you want.

The very best but top dollar, as one should expect for the very best.

 

[EC121]

He can supply wood from $150 on up, and will send pictures of 2 or 3 to pick from. As the racers say: "Speed(curl) costs money. How fast(curly) do you want to go?"

 

[ohio ramrod]

Like most things in life you get what you pay for !

 

[Killerangel]

The very best but top dollar, as one should expect for the very best.

Went with Nathan Cox at Harrison Gun Stocks. Top dollar is right....but a pleasure to deal with. Second rife is entering Build stage with the same man who built my first muzzleloader.

 

[1BadDart]

That's a beautiful piece of wood! Post some photo's when it's finished.

 

[deerstalkert]

do the Harrison blanks come as blanks or in the preformed stocks like in your picture?
always looking myself!

 

[EC121]

Nathan only sells raw blanks. He had a few pre-shaped with the barrel inlet and BP installed. Freddie stored his wood in a bunch of semi-trailers. Nathan opened one and found some done that way. I got a nice LH one in .50 cal. with a swamped Hoyt barrel and forged BP for $600, but he doesn't regularly make them. These were done while Freddie was still alive.

 

[deerstalkert]

Nathan only sells raw blanks. He had a few pre-shaped with the barrel inlet and BP installed. Freddie stored his wood in a bunch of semi-trailers. Nathan opened one and found some done that way. I got a nice one in .50 cal. with a swamped Hoyt barrel and forged BP for $600, but he doesn't regularly make them. These were done while Freddie was still alive.

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that puts the tiger in tiger stripe!
how much cure age do they have?
maybe i should just call them but i guess this is what a forum is about?

 

[SOLANCO]

Groff and Groff Lumber in Quarryville, PA. It will be a plank, not a preformed stock blank. But you will want to come pick it out yourself. Bring a spray bottle of water to help you see the figure.

 

[deerstalkert]

Groff and Groff Lumber in Quarryville, PA. It will be a plank, not a preformed stock blank. But you will want to come pick it out yourself. Bring a spray bottle of water to help you see the figure.

wife can't get me down off this mountain to the grocery store 30 miles away, doubt i will be going to Quarryville anytime soon! even though the shipping services have been horrendous here lately. last stock blank sat in the bowels of a fedex distribution center for four months!
maybe a road trip would be worth it?

 

[springfield art]

I'm having a rifle built. The only piece I do nor have yet is the wood for the stock. It needs to me at least 57" long by 10" wide by 2 3/4 " thick. I want the best curly maple I can get. I need to know where to get it....who to contact. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steven B.

Tiger Hunt; they display stock blanks at the Gun Fairs, but many people would like to actually view the blank as opposed to just having one sent. Good luck!

 

[springfield art]

wife can't get me down off this mountain to the grocery store 30 miles away, doubt i will be going to Quarryville anytime soon! even though the shipping services have been horrendous here lately. last stock blank sat in the bowels of a fedex distribution center for four months!
maybe a road trip would be worth it?

The area around Quarryville is beautiful! Make a whole trip out of it, see Lancaster County; look up Strasburg Railroad. Making a road trip, staying overnight someplace, eating out, sharing roads with horse-buggies and the wonderful hard working Amish, is great. Then you'll recall all this when using the completed gun! Thanks to Solanco for the tip on Groff & Groff. Best of luck!

 

[EC121]

how much cure age do they have?

Freddie has been gone for many years. The wood should be well dried. I don't think there were a lot of precarved and barreled pieces, but a phone call will let you know. Nathan should be at the Knoxville show this Fri. and Sat.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Tiger Hunt; they display stock blanks at the Gun Fairs, but many people would like to actually view the blank as opposed to just having one sent. Good luck!

They are usually at the Fort Frederick market faire which is the end of this week well worth the trip. There set up is on the back row of the main entrance to the fort. Also lots of other gun builders on the suttler list this year,sure you could find what your looking for there.

 

[Killerangel]

do the Harrison blanks come as blanks or in the preformed stocks like in your picture?
always looking myself!

It was a blank that had a rough profile of a stock. Bob Lepley in PA shaped it to its current condition. The builder will have quite a bit of wood to remove, and the patch box is a block of woodwith just the dovetail cut into it. Its for a Chambers kit.

 

[Killerangel]

Many of those mentioned above had nice looking wood. One dealer had incredible "Tiger Striping". I am not an expert...but those I defer to pointed out that much of their wood is not stump cut like Harrison's/Nathan's....so when the finished stock curves down at the wrist the grain will have too much "run-out"; which I understand to be wide bands of grain, which are not as strong, or easy to carve. Species also came into question as related to the hardness of the blanks. As I went "back and forth" with all the dealers mentioned here....and a couple more...the best to deal with was Nathan. His patience and willingness to dig pieces out of his supply was great. He also was the only one that responded to all my questions about what and why I wanted a "stump cut" piece. His blank is also well dried and "hard" Maple. Thanks all.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Other options;
Dunlaps
Tiger Hunt
Knob Mountain

Although curl is eye catching, of MORE importance is species and grain direction through the lock / wrist area. Sugar maple has about a 25% greater shear resistance than red maple.

There are things you can do to mitigate grain runout risk in the wrist, but if it's right in the first place you won't have to.