Tigerstriped stocks

koldt said:
Here's a pic of the handguard on my FNC1A1. I wish I could find a matching butt and pistol grip.
P.S. That's the PVS 502 NV that was issued with the FN. Back in the day it was the shnizzle.

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Not to divert off topic but had to add my outdated scope.

When I was an armourer, I used to hoard all the fancy wood for the FNs and custom rebuild my freinds rifles for fun. I had blonde, striped and the most beautiful grained wood if you looked for it. As time went by, the new wood would always be plainer. They seemed topick it for its uniformity so the truely nice stuff got scarcer.
 
Bojangles said:
Be careful, I have seen tiger stripes put on a wooden stock with the use of a small butane torch. Usually very obvious and is more often done on muzzle loading (kit) rifles.

Cheers,
B
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The thing to realize with PERIOD muzzle loaders, the striping you describe was a factory available finish at the time. So it isn't a Bubba.

There are some lovely muzzle loaders that were stocked with amazing fiddle back and ribboning.

Stocks, with this much figure, need to be taken with a grain of salt for other reasons. They need to be completely dry before they are sealed. They have a tendency to warp. Nothing unsightly but enough to cause accuracy issues in some cases. Full length stocks seem to suffer from this the most.
 
mrbeil said:
I believe it was a vet bring back north korean sks from the korean war too.. Shame it ended up getting confiscated and destroyed
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A little off topic, but: North Korea did not make the SKS during the Korean war - they started production in 1963 as far as anyone knows, and there is no proof that I can find that any SKS at all was used during that conflict. The Russians didn't seem to give out the tooling for the SKS until the mid-late 1950's, until well after they had enough AKM's for them to safely consider the SKS to be a second line rifle, then they gave away the tooling and build permission.

My Dad sold his L1A1 in the early 1990's as well - it had feeding issues and the Air Force was keeping him much too busy to bother fixing it, so he sold it for the cash.
 
sunray said:
"...with the use of a small butane torch..." Faked. Real tiger stripes come on maple. Has to do with the tree getting blown around and/or twisted by the wind. Said trees come from the sides of hills, as I recall. Deceased buddy of mine had it explained to him by an old time logger.
Cannon fuse, I think it was(saw it in a gun rag years ago) laid on the unstained wood and lit will do it as well. Might have just been bits of string though. I remember everything I read, but never where I saw it or when. Not always in context either.
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It was explained to me as having to do with 2 trees growing together as one. Maple keys are "paired", as are walnuts...might not be correct as birch are not. It is not a disease like Birdseye though.


sunray said:
"...natural characteristic of some maple wood?..." Yep. Horrendously expensive wood now.
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lol
A friend who worked in a hardwood flooring plant was working as a grader. Made me very sad to find out they tossed tiger stripe/fiddle back/curly, and birdseye maple into pallet stock!

I made a stab at a "faux" figuring...(process shown here: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...r-Thread?p=5948785&highlight=faux#post5948785)



I used a whitener/bleach and minwax. Would have worked out MUCH better if I used something finer than a Q-tip (like a paintbrush that normal folks use...) to paint with.

The second electric guitar I built has bookmatched curly maple, and it looks sweet. The Claro Walnut figuring can be spectacular!
 
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