Maple vs. Walnut for SxS shotgun stock

[Bushfire]

I'd love to have a Turkish walnut stocked muzzleloader, pc or not!

 

[SwanShot]

In my opinion, Walnut is infinitely easier to work with and would look better on SxS.

What he said. I've done quite a bit of work with walnut, it does what you tell it to, and it just looks right on a shotgun.

 

[Robby]

I have done only three stocks in 'english walnut' and it is a very nice wood to work with.
Robby

 

[Art Caputo]

I'd love to have a Turkish walnut stocked muzzleloader, pc or not!

Diss agree the french is better ???? . EM Reilly went over to better quality french walnut in 1848 don’t know why it’s different unless the trees are a different strain or go bigger Or french walnut was more plentiful. Photo cape rifle 1853 french walnut at a guess by EM Reilly junior Today the best walnut seems to be coming from Turkey

Perhaps due to the English being the masters of building fine shotguns, the term “English Walnut is often interchanged with “European Walnut”. Climate/geographic location is a “major” factor in selecting Walnut for fine shotgun stocks, and it has been a strong consensus amongst the big name makers that the finest Walnut for gun stocks has traditionally come from regions in France and later, Turkey. Generally, the walnut from these regions have the finest attributes of light weight, proper flex/strength, workability/grain, and beauty.
IMO, regardless of the particular region, fine walnut seems to exist for the purpose stocking fine shotguns. A couple of late 19th century Purdey “Best” game guns still in use having maintained their beauty and integrity for generations.

 

[BadDaditood]

In addition to ease of tooling and looking right walnut also bends for cast-off with hot oil, maple doesn’t bend.

 

[billraby]

English or Turkish walnut is the way to go. But a really nice blank can get extremely expensive. Pretty easy for a english or turkish walnut blank to hit $2500+.

 

[Sparkitoff]

So after all this information, I figured I won't build a gun, I'll just buy the closest thing to what I want. That is the Pedersoli Old English model. I read the specs and wouldn't you know, it comes with a MAPLE stock... Ugh...

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

So after all this information, I figured I won't build a gun, I'll just buy the closest thing to what I want. That is the Pedersoli Old English model. I read the specs and wouldn't you know, it comes with a MAPLE stock... Ugh...

WOW. With all the walnut stocked stuff pedersoli sells id figure walnut would be a given.

 

[ZUG]

If you are going to make one, I'd use what you like. I stocked a M1 with a nice piece of curly maple that looks FANTASTIC. All the people that have seen it just LOVE it. It does get quite a stir on the firing line.