Can you bed the mystery wood?

I think the chu wood is very much worth the effort to bed, firstly because it's functional, secondly because it will give you practice. It's a lot better to screw-up a piece of chinese balsa than one of the increasingly hard to find USGI numbers, yes?
 
No, it's too soft and too absorbent. A harder wood, more like birch is used for reusable chopsticks and poplar is used for the disposable type.
Chu wood is used to make dentures.
 
Splatter said:
I think the chu wood is very much worth the effort to bed, firstly because it's functional, secondly because it will give you practice. It's a lot better to screw-up a piece of chinese balsa than one of the increasingly hard to find USGI numbers, yes?
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Actually you do make a good point.

The Chu wood stock would be a good thing to practice bedding on, but I personally wouldn't bed one of those stock to use it.The wood is too soft IMHO.

SKBY.
 
Skullboy said:
Actually you do make a good point.

The Chu wood stock would be a good thing to practice bedding on, but I personally wouldn't bed one of those stock to use it.The wood is too soft IMHO.

SKBY.
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You both do... but every stock and gun have their place in this world...

... except Hi-Points and Lorcins... yeeech.
 
You will indeed be able to bed it, no question about it. It will turn out great.

But after a few hundred rounds, all that work will be wasted. The wood is too soft to maintain the tight fit required to bed properly. It will compress under the epoxy, and you will be back at square one. This will be especially noticeable at the trigger guard shoe, at the receiver heel and the front reciever bearing surface.

If you're going to invest the $20 for quality epoxy and $15 for the rest of the supplies, shell out another $50 and get a good hardwood USGI stock. I second the recommendation to practice inletting on the Chinese stock; I did that and learned a lot that helped me when I went to bed in a birch USGI.
 
It is worth a 15 min bedding job to reduce wobbling. The least cost effective thing is degreasing and refinishing the Chu stock. Unless you work part time at McDonalds.
How embarassoed I was when the trigger jammed, I had to shake out the epoxy crumbs from the trigger group beside the guy with the lever action 30-30. If you enjoy fiddling (as I do), go for it :).
 
Goole shows me this tree.
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300Spartans said:
Does anyone have a pic of the chu tree?
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