On the hunt for Jewel grade walnut

Ardent said:
Love burl, and don't have too particular grain or colour fixed in my mind other than preferences for dark mineral lines and radiance. Unfortunately burl is often so biased / weak, might break on a super thin stock wrist that'll see lots of mountain use.
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Well if your stock breaks I'll take the remnants for knife handle blanks!
 
Ardent said:
Love burl, and don't have too particular grain or colour fixed in my mind other than preferences for dark mineral lines and radiance. Unfortunately burl is often so biased / weak, might break on a super thin stock wrist that'll see lots of mountain use.
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Yup. Grain flow and wrists. Gotta watch out.

Ardent, a couple of questions about the stock in your first post.

1. It appears you used the wood as a buttplate. Yes??

2. What product did you use to get that beautiful finish on the wood?
 
Mauser98 said:
Yup. Grain flow and wrists. Gotta watch out.

Ardent, a couple of questions about the stock in your first post.

1. It appears you used the wood as a buttplate. Yes??

2. What product did you use to get that beautiful finish on the wood?
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My No.1 is a wood butt awaiting a skeletonized setup with a stock hole hatch, been slow to get that done as I keep hunting it. Just regular tung oil and a copious amount of wet sanding with tung and extremely fine grit, changing paper all the time.

 
Ardent said:
My No.1 is a wood butt awaiting a skeletonized setup with a stock hole hatch, been slow to get that done as I keep hunting it. Just regular tung oil and a copious amount of wet sanding with tung and extremely fine grit, changing paper all the time.

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That explosion of color from the butt end looks great. It would be nice to have the fore end having the same effect facing aft to give an implosion look.:cool:
 
Putting that piece of wood on a Ruger #1 is like putting lipstick on a pig and I like #1's but that belongs on a best grade english SxS or mated to an exquisitely hand engraved high end target shotgun. Nice piece of wood!! Also why wasn't it checkered in some unique pattern?
 
the spank said:
Putting that piece of wood on a Ruger #1 is like putting lipstick on a pig and I like #1's but that belongs on a best grade english SxS or mated to an exquisitely hand engraved high end target shotgun. Nice piece of wood!! Also why wasn't it checkered in some unique pattern?
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You haven't spent enough time with No.1s, I'll admit irritation at the comment that I know wasn't intended to seek it out. Have an H&H Royal with superb wood already and would rather use the custom No.1 quite frankly, only the action is original and even that has been slimmed- though a No.1 is superb stock too. One of the few productions actions along with the CRF Model 70 and M98 you can talk big names into putting their mark on. Alright alright said my bit and calmed down, No.1 slagging is a rare thing to see and feels like somebody talking about your wife when it's one of yours. The checkering same as the butt; I keep hunting it (pictured partway finished below, out working) and haven't got to it yet. :)


 
Not wishing to Hi-Jack.......:wave:, but to determine stock or wood grain beauty,
what would one wish to wipe or spray on unfinished wood to see the clarity of said grain?
Just ended up with a piece of stock wood and belt sanded the roughness off.
I'd like to wipe it with something to see what jumps out.
 
Alcohol indeed, I swiped the M98 rough stock with tung oil as I need to do a lot of shaping on the belt sander and that little gum won't matter. People get really worried about water given the standard 5 year cure, but I use it anyway a bit before oiling to open the wood's pores. You're not going to hurt anything with a light swipe of water if it's all you have.
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
Fer a hefty sum, one could order up a super nice piece of lumber from Peter Hofer in Austria. Only bugaboo is, ya got to order a whole rifle to get 'er.:runaway:

This .22 hornet double fer instance.
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I'd trade my Royal for one if I could find one of the five people who have one and talk one of them into it.
 
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