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I’m getting mixed reviews here hahaha
Would vacuum bag the stock, cover with a black lawn sack, and hang in the summer sun for a couple of days work?wood worms die with the temperature above 55*
also you can put the butt stock in a trash bag and give it a good squirt of starting fluid/ether, then tape the bag shut and let the little buggers huff that for a while.
i would imagine that would work.Would vacuum bag the stock, cover with a black lawn sack, and hang in the summer sun for a couple of days work?
It getting up to +100F and in the direct sunlight and the black plastic keeping it hot should put the Kietus on them.
Inquiring minds and all,
Original Brown BessWorm hole wood is one of my favorite stock woods , ever since I saw an original Lehigh Valley , Pa. rifle at Dixons ML Shop. Chuck Dixon and I discussed his wormy wood Lehigh Barn gun extensively.. It's a rare gun , and the holes , and longitudinal channels were never filled , and appear cleaned out of the saw dust. I have made guns from wormy ash , and maple. I prefer to clean out the dust , and fill the holes and channels , with black , or brown stained Epoxie , then sand off smooth. It's builders choice. ......oldwood
Worm holes in the original Brown Bess appear to be bored from the exterior of the long go finished stock. The barn find stock worm holes appear to be from before the wood was milled and then became apparent when the final shape emerged - worms could not burrow along wood surface. Like another poster, I would worry about worm holes in the wrist area causing weakness.Original Brown Bess
if all are surface channels you are golden! certainly will be one of a kind!I’ll be honest the more I’m looking at the stock the holes don’t go deep I can see the end of each one so not sure how they could still be there. Feeling a little better about that!
I will definitely do that! It’s definitely a neat piece of wood with some good curl, I rubbed a damp cloth on it and was pretty excited to see the curl but these big holes are going to look nice too! The stock came from TVM so I’m assuming it was done properly, but like I said all these holes are surface only snd none seem to go into the wood. Also no crunching sound that I could hear in the wood eitherif all are surface channels you are golden! certainly will be one of a kind!
we pay big money for figure in wood, those bug runs will be sure to attract attention.
i got to thinking (dangerous),about killing those bugs that might be alive. if there are any holes uncovered you could blast the hole with high pressure. likely to do bad things to a bug.
ps. please post progress, this has me enthralled.
Thank you for the idea I will definitely remember that if I do another stock with em in it. This one has sat for over a year with no new holes, sawdust etc… so I feel pretty confident they are not there BUT if that changes I will do the heatIf you were concerned about possible live wood worms you could heat the gun up to about 120° F for a half hour or so to kill any remaining larvae or eggs. That temperature shouldn't cause any damage and it would kill anything left alive.
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