STOCK CLAMP

[Zonie]

Mr Gray: Right you are. The red colored wood is Padauk (sp)? It was left over from a magazine rack I made to hold my Muzzle Blasts.

flashpanner: You are lucky to live back Mid-East. Almost all of the pallets we have out here in Arizona are made out of fir or pine.
Every once in a while I'll see some pallets made out of Oak or some other hardwood we have to pay a fortune for out here and I can't help but think, "What a waste of good wood!" Glad to see your using some of it.

Birddog6: Your bench is what mine looked like before I cleaned off most of the stuff and piled it on the floor so I could take a picture that would show the clamp. I mean, if I left the bench looking like yours, someone looking at my picture would say, "What clamp? I don't see no dam clamp!" :rotf:

Have a good one!

 

[flashpanner]

new version to an old saying: instead of this place is a mess, it should read: This mess is a place!!" :grin:

 

[Birddog6]

Zonie, In my mess I spend 90% of the time looking for the rifle I am working on !! :rotf: :rotf:


I was at Sams Club to get groceries one time & came thru the sporting goods part of the store & looked in a isle & low & behold there was a pallet made of black walnut. I just couldn't believe it.. ALL of the boards were walnut, the main 2x4's were oak but the rest was walnut. And I couldn't bey, beg, borrow, trade, or steal that pallet ! They said they had to return it................ Dayam............ :cursing:

 

[CZMark]

Years ago, I was a mechanic in a Suzuki motorcycle shop. New motorcycles came in crates made of Philippine mahogany, we gave the wood to a local who used it to build rabbit pens.

 

[maypo59]

Buddy of mine worked for a steel fabrication company, they used to get pallets made of figured maple and quarter sawn oak all the time. He brought them home, we took them apart and checked them for stray metal etc, them milled them, we must have 2000bdft of that stuff in my barn, made some fantastic butcher blocks and blanket chests and stuff from it. Only down side is nothing is wider then 5" or longer than 72".

 

[paulvallandigham]

If you glue a couple of the boards together, you can make a great laminated stock.