Truly poor boy style Tennssee rifle

[kansas_volunteer]

I've worked with lumber yard yellow pine -- untreated -- and wouldn't consider it remotely suitable for a project like this. However my ancient plank is something very different. I won't be driving nails in it but will have to make allowances. I can already see that a lock with a little tail on it is apt to cause chipping where the tail runs in the same direction as the grain. The rear of a lock plate will have to be round.

It would be satisfying to use Kansas walnut. T/C front stuffers were stocked with it and produced at a mill in Perry, Kansas

 

[Vaino]

Well then, do what you will....Fred

 

[Black Hand]

I've worked with lumber yard yellow pine -- untreated -- and wouldn't consider it remotely suitable for a project like this. However my ancient plank is something very different. I won't be driving nails in it but will have to make allowances. I can already see that a lock with a little tail on it is apt to cause chipping where the tail runs in the same direction as the grain. The rear of a lock plate will have to be round.

You have received plenty of good advise against using the pine for a stock. However, it has become evident that you are determined to proceed and use a less-than-suitable wood despite input. That is indeed your choice.

That said, I would use a wood that guarantees you a gun at the end of the process rather than wood that could result in wasting perhaps hundreds of hours.

I wonder why people ask questions if they aren't really interested in the answers...?

 

[Kansas Jake]

Affirmation of what they have already decided to do.

 

[tenngun]

While I don't think pine would be a good choice from real or historic manner it ain't my gun.whats the worse that could happen? Should it be a poor boy your stock will be sans s lot of fancy work.if it don't work you will have lost a few hours(about a hundred or so) of working on the gun.a hundred hours of fun. So.... you restock later.your other parts won't go bad. You get another hundred hours of fun.i can think of more then one project of mine that didn't work out.

 

[Black Hand]

If many people tell you that smashing your thumb with a hammer is a bad idea - why would you still smash your thumb with a hammer?

I try to learn from the experience of others. I've no need to smash my thumb to prove to myself it is a bad idea....

 

[mooman76]

Allot of people said and still say you can't shoot anything but pure lead RBs in muzzle loaders either but many of us know they do in fact work. If he wants to use pine why the heck not, it's his gun and he has allot of wood experience.

 

[tenngun]

Your right there,however some people just have to find out. There must have been a reason we don't see pine stocks. Howsomever, smart people told Columbus not to sail west,or the wrights you can't build heaver then air flying machines.
I think I would heed your advice, but what's he got to loose other then his effort.

 

[Black Hand]

Columbus and the Wrights were heading into territory no one had yet explored while the qualities of a proper stock-wood are well known. The two circumstances are not even remotely comparable.

As I said - learn from the experience of others...

 

[tenngun]

Your right bad comparison. We always fall back on maple walnut and cherry. Ash and beech were used if you wanted an unusual wood. Some folks still have to hit their thumbs in spite of warnings, I have some sore thumbs to prove it :haha: