Lyman Great Plains Pop Quiz

[Mossyrock]

What the heck kind of wood do they stock these things with?!?

 

[mykeal]

I believe it's walnut, an American variety.

 

[Jim Buchholz]

OK,I'll play. I say walnut from Russia or Turkey.

 

[jtmattison]

European walnut.

HD

 

[cowpoke1955]

I'm with Dawg, European walnut.

 

[redwing]

Do they have walnut in Italy?

 

[PreglerD]

They have a lot there! So much that they can harvest these trees and make stocks for ML out of it. Southern Europe is the only area where these walnut trees are growing. North of the Alpes it is too cold, except in some southern regions of Austria and Bavaria.


Regards

Kirrmeister

 

[BossHoss]

Mines walnut :v

 

[mykeal]

Could easily be European.

When I built mine I went down to the local mill and bought a walnut 1x4 plank; according to the foreman it was from the US but he didn't know what species. It matched the Lyman stock perfectly for color and texture (open grain), although the curl was quite a bit less pronounced. I used it for witness boards to test stains and finishes.

That was what I based my guess on (and that's what it was, a guess).

 

[50cal.cliff]

It is definately not American Black Walnut. We use to have Black Walnut on my Dad's old home place and have cut many a board feet of it and it doesn't look like the Walnut in the Lyman stock!
I have been told it is Euorpean Walnut.

 

[Bountyhunter]

I did some calling last spring when I was working on one and they said it was some species that they imported from africa that is supposed to represent walnut. Good walnut, either American Black walnut or European walnut shouldnt be striped like zebra wood. That stuff was hard, oily, plumb full of silica, and when you worked it, it smelled like a shingle off from an outhouse.

I think that it isnt walnut.

 

[Mulebrain]

European Walnut it is I say :thumbsup:

 

[anika]

I bought my kit in 05 and the sheet that came with it specified european walnut. When I finished mine I sealed and oiled it no stain and it appears to be darker than some members that have been stained. odis

 

[rafterob]

Who would stain their member? :rotf:

 

[Mossyrock]

Exactly..... I've never seen Walnut with grain like this. Odd looking stuff. Distinctive, but not "Walnutty".

 

[paulvallandigham]

There are walnut trees being ground throughout the balkans, in Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and even Albania. YOu have a fine french Walnut that is lighter in color. You have California Claro walnut, that can also be very light in colors.
" European" walnut can indicate wood coming from just about anywhere on that continent, except the northern lattitudes, where its too cold and dry to grow these trees.

If we developed the habit of planting 5 walnut trees for each one we cut down, we could restore the American Black Walnut tree to its former range in 70 to 100 years.

 

[musketman]

What the heck kind of wood do they stock these things with?!?

From Track of the Wolf.

Stocked in walnut, trimmed in iron furniture, the Lyman Great Plains Rifle features a hooked breech, two wedge keys, double set triggers, adjustable rear sight, and 32" barrel.

 

[ronrryan]

Coventional quality suppository guns used to be advertised with "circassian walnut". Good smoke, Ron

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Circassian walnut is generally considered to be a premium wood due to the quality of its grain and figure.

 

[paulvallandigham]

Circassian Walnut is from Turkey, which is still part of Europe. There is not a lot of difference between that walnut, and some you see from the lower balkans, however. It tends to be beautiful wood, however, and is used more for furniture, than for gunstocks!