where are these sets comeing from? I would not mid ordering a few sets for a current and future builds.
I was thinking of ordering from Numerich but I am wondering if a lot of their wood is Indian and very beat up.
You can order different grades from Numerich. From used to select grade uninstalled.
Most of the uninstalled wood is in the white and unstained. It is also very dirty and stained. It took me a couple of months to clean up a stock set, before it was fit to be installed on a rifle. The dirt and stain, seems to be some sort of mold and it penetrates quite deep. I soaked my wood in bleach soaked rags for a week. Then washed the area with sunlight detergent. There was still a stain but it was light enough to be blended in when some stain was applied.
Just to make sure you know what I mean by stain, I use one liter of boiled linseed oil, mixed with one can of BLACK KIWI shoe polish. To mix the two together, I scrape out the can of shoe polish into the bottom of an old stainless pot I bought for a looney at a flea market, then pour in a liter of BLO and at a very low heat, outdoors, blend it together. This gives a very light brown finish. I also have home made stains with 2-3-4-5 cans of KIWI mixed in. The latter, leaves a very durable dark brown finish on any sort of light wood.When later coats of BLO are added, the color stays.
It's an old trick a furniture refinisher taught me over thirty years ago. She used to buy that cheap unfinished but well made alder/birch/pine furniture from some place in Langley, BC by the pick up and trailer load, bring it back to the OK, finish it to different hues that resembled walnut, cherry and other woods. Strangely enough was one she made up with a fluorescent red. On birch and pine, it retained its color very well but lost its fluorescence. That lady knew a lot of tricks.
