Another facet of my hobby, and weakness of mine, beautiful wood

Ardent

Ardent

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I've found myself getting into stocking guns, and as such, collecting fine wood. Here's my current "inventory", figured some here might find it interesting. I'll post pics as I make more stocks out of them.

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Pretty nice wood... a few bucks sitting there... they would look much better with a different background than your floor...

lay a sheet down and do that again... :D
 
That is some really nice looking stuff there. I really like how the grain flows throughout the stock. Wish my 10/22T had that on it.
 
That's some lovely wood!

If you don't mind me asking - how do you seal it to prevent checking? All my stuff warped and checked no matter what I did to slow the drying.
 
I wax the ends of the blanks, and keep it cool, the wood has to remain below 15ºC ideally, in moderate humidity, a cellar's perfect. Truthfully though, a lot of it just has to do with the quality of the wood, the good stuff's grain's just so tight and, while a weird way to describe it, "plastic" in texture and natural oil content you won't get issues with warping and checking as much as a coarser, lighter, lower grade.
 
Nonus said:
That is some really nice looking stuff there. I really like how the grain flows throughout the stock. Wish my 10/22T had that on it.
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Why not make a project of it? It's pretty straightforward, just labor intensive. You'd be putting wood on the it that'd probably be worth double what the gun is, but she'd be one of a kind, for sure.
 
H Wally said:
That's some lovely wood!

If you don't mind me asking - how do you seal it to prevent checking? All my stuff warped and checked no matter what I did to slow the drying.
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Ps, also, thought I should mention you can stop a crack from progressing with cyanoacrylate (super glue), it's so thin it flows into the fine portions of cracks through capillary action, and stops them in their tracks. Totally invisible in the finished product, strong as all heck.
 
Ardent said:
Ps, also, thought I should mention you can stop a crack from progressing with cyanoacrylate (super glue), it's so thin it flows into the fine portions of cracks through capillary action, and stops them in their tracks. Totally invisible in the finished product, strong as all heck.
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Interesting - I've mainly been making bows, so I'm not sure how the super glue would affect it once it's flexing, but with a big enough stave it would at least stop the crack before it reached the section I was going to use.

Thanks!
 
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