Okay we've seen a great pair of knockers + here, finely carved from various woods. Though guns are referred to here the topic is the woods we prefer for stocks. I love walnut but (to me) a longrifle should be carved from maple. What say ye sleepers and lollygaggers?
curly maple , curly ash , or curly cherry are the best looking stocks , unless you can afford the very best walnut ! and when you talk the best walnut ,your talking a stock blank that goes for about the same price as a finished rifle stocked in the other three woods !
Walnut is the top stock wood and frighteningly expensive. Cherry is beautiful and makes great stocks. Ash looks great but is seems to be a little more difficult to work with. Every single shooter I own - including "modern" as well as front loading - is either maple or walnut. My .54 is walnut but the European variety. And even the very first rifle I ever bought new and with my own $$ (a single shot Remington .22) is walnut and set me back around $19 or $20; I still have it and sometimes shoot it. dntn
my shooters are a mix ! god may have to guess what wood was used on my southern mountain rifle it`a about as plain as you can get , not sure what the ardessa hawken was stocked with , maybe beech , the spanish smoothbore is walnut , and is plain as dirt , the two somewhat more modern rifles , trapdoor and revolving carbine in .22 are both black walnut , !
My .36 SMR is super plain maple and iron. The .32 SMR was supposed to be plain but turned out to have a lot of curl.
The .32 SMR
(https://i.postimg.cc/NMPnLBLT/DSC00197.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/2bhGKpQ8)
The .36 SMR
(https://i.postimg.cc/ZRQVSWk1/PICT0550.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
"Okay we've seen a great pair of knockers + here"
If we saw more fine pairs of knockers here, this site would have a lot more viewers. (susp)
Quote from: Patocazador on June 25, 2022
"Okay we've seen a great pair of knockers + here"
If we saw more fine pairs of knockers here, this site would have a lot more viewers. (susp)
[hmm] Hmmm...Just let me see what I can do.
a great pair of knockers ! actually a trio ! :mini-devil-28492: ROFL
Quote from: beowulf on June 26, 2022
a great pair of knockers ! actually a trio ! :mini-devil-28492: ROFL
Now those are cool! chrrs
Here's a candidate:
Quote from: Patocazador on June 27, 2022
Here's a candidate:
So where does the flint go? I won't ask about the muzzle.
ROFL
Quote from: Hanshi on June 28, 2022
Quote from: Patocazador on June 27, 2022
Here's a candidate:
So where does the flint go? I won't ask about the muzzle.
ROFL ROFL ROFL :mini-devil-28492:
Oh brother....
Quote from: William on June 29, 2022
Oh brother....
I'm afraid it all goes downhill now. (susp)
:mini-devil-28492: Must I remind you we are open to miners.... :mini-devil-28492:
Quote from: Red Badger on July 06, 2022
:mini-devil-28492: Must I remind you we are open to miners.... :mini-devil-28492:
"Miners" probably no problem there but we also occasionally have minors here too.
Quote from: Red Badger on July 06, 2022
:mini-devil-28492: Must I remind you we are open to miners.... :mini-devil-28492:
Miners do have a tough life and we should treat them well. flwa
Quote from: flintboomer on July 07, 2022
Quote from: Red Badger on July 06, 2022
:mini-devil-28492: Must I remind you we are open to miners.... :mini-devil-28492:
"Miners" probably no problem there but we also occasionally have minors here too.
Minors? Heck, we don't even have many Majors on here anymore. &)