Stock Woods

[musketman]

What wood would YEW yews FIR sprucing up your smokepoles...

WALNUT is a POPLAR choice, I wood branch out to add Larry, Moe And Curley Maple as well...

I better SPRUCE up these puns, don't want to make an ASH of myself...

OAK, CHEERY, EBONY and ROSEWOOD are a few other hard woods that can be used to make stocks...

I had some TEAK chairs before, I bet it would make a durable gun stock...

I really like the BLACHTHORN, but the wood is usually twisted, it's a shame too...
However, they do make great walking sticks...

 

[djnye]

birdseye!!!

but then again, as with any highly figured wood, you loose some strength in the smaller cross-sections. just because wood is more expensive and gawdier, doesn't make it better(add a little glitter and the natives will pay more for it). in my work i deal with straight-grain woods all the time and have come to appreciate the structural integrity of that feature and the delicacy of construction that the extra strength allows. but i do live in birdseye country(it doesn't grow anywhere else in the world) and use it all the time and it can be very mesmerizing.

take care, daniel

 

[Haggis]

Musketman, you are very punny guy.

I choose straight grain woods every time; my gune are already purdier then me.

 

[Chuck Deaton]

In building my first small 36 caliber squirrel gun, I whittled the stock out of three peices of walnut, laminated. While I made a functional gun my next effort will be better looking. The Jim Chambers small Siler lock is excellent and Mark DeHaas made the barrel.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Life's a beech, and there's a scad of "walnut finished hardwood" circulating around to prove it.

When I have my fowler made (don't hold your breath) I'm having it stocked in cherry. Tiger-stripe maple can take your breath away and is a superior, stable wood for rifles, but there is something honest and wholesome about a nice cherry stock to offset an 'in-the-white' patined barrel and lock.

 

[musketman]

quote:Originally posted by Stumpkiller:
When I have my fowler made (don't hold your breath) I'm having it stocked in cherry.I seen a Cherry stock that was cut to look like a fiddle back, it was extra nice looking...

 

One o the fellers herebouts has hisself a Kaintuk pistol stock made from Bo'Dark, Osage Orange, Hedge; call it what ere' ya wants. But one thin' bout it, unlikes myself, the older it gits the purdier it gits. Started off kinda babycrap yallar, now it be a beyooyiful golden brown. No stainin', just a good rub down with tung oil onced in awhile.

 

[TwoShadows]

Eye guess thet Tung awl wud be o k , but hit leaves a bad taste in muh mouf frum stikin muh tung ta tha stok. Besides, U got to have a likker license in this county ta doo thet kind uv kinky stuff.

They is a in depth ar tickle in tha muzzloader magnumzine this munth bout gunstockin wood.


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