Consider this with your next stock or pistol grip selection

[wheelgun]

At least one of the revolver grips i previously considered purchasing is made of the wood on this list. I am no longer considering these grips after being made aware of this list. Just thought I would pass it on to those that make decisions. If you had the opportunity to see the clear cutting of these forrests it may impact your decision. There are many options.

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/restricted-and-endangered-wood-species/

 

[trevj]

Life is too short for me to feel guilty about owning wood that was cut forty years ago.

About the only thing I want to know, is if the wood grips are going to cause the same headaches that the musicians face when they take a 1950's guitar across the US Border and have some half-retarded beuracratic oaf demand that they prove where the Ebony came from else the lose the property!

Life is good when folks have time to worry about petty crap like this, instead of where their next meal is coming from, as is the case in most of the places those woods come from.

Claro walnut is on the list too, eh? LOL.

Cheers
Trev

 

[fenceline]

Rubber comes from a tree.

 

[tokguy]

I've a 1954 Mauser that is made of a now protected tree, ' Monkey ears ' or some such thing. I still sleep pretty decent; " Things were one way, now they are another"

 

[The Kurgan]

tokguy... never heard of that wood. Post up a photo, I am curious to see what it looks like.

 

[ShawnC6]

it might actually provoke me to buy one of that type before they are all gone forever.

 

[tokguy]

Let's see if I did it right.
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1154439-Newest-mauser
I went to Huatulco in January, there is Navy base there. A guide made a call or two and we finally tracked it down. Legend has it that the tree concerned can split rocks with it's roots in search of water.
Pretty cool actually.

 

[krprice84]

it might actually provoke me to buy one of that type before they are all gone forever.

^^^ this....

where can I get me some?

 

[sigrunes]

I want grips made of unicorn tusk , lol.

 

[Greg S]

I know of someone who inherited a piano. They want it shipped from Canada to where they now live in California. They have to get all the piano keys removed and replaced with plastic ones. It's against the law to cross the border with ivory. And then what do they do with the old keys? It's also against the law to sell ivory. Same idea as this exotic wood subject only worse.

 

[crash277]

I know of someone who inherited a piano. They want it shipped from Canada to where they now live in California. They have to get all the piano keys removed and replaced with plastic ones. It's against the law to cross the border with ivory. And then what do they do with the old keys? It's also against the law to sell ivory. Same idea as this exotic wood subject only worse.

i will take they keys, i have a piano thats over 100 yrs old, some idiot in my wifes family had it restored about 30 or so years ago and they let the guy take the damn ivory and install plastic.