Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats I'm depressed, need photos of fancy wood and custom work

I can't take classy photos like you guys, but perhaps the lefty bolts will raise Claude's spirits.





Hey Claude--how about I send you this T-bolt to checker?

Yes~ LH is always better!!
Just quit working on a pattern.
A goudyesque modern classic for large ring. I'll post pics.
I really like it. My only two previous mauser patterns were stalking/Obendorf style and more modern monte palm swell
this is slim, more open grip, sort of a cross between mod 70 and early rem700 (pre raised monte carlo)

Would that be a good match to the Mauser whelen I just finished?

I'll post pics when I cut something from it.

am joining your group with a couple of questions-have any of you ever heard of a stockmaker named Temple Lide from Texas??he was born in 1907 and died in 1984-i have a Ruger #1 that he carved and checkered toward the end of his career- if someone could tell me how to post a picture from my computer to this forum, I could send a couple-they're aren't top of the line cause we are new to this, but the work sure is!!!-as an old gunsmith, several of his guns came through my shop in the 70's and 80's-I don't care for Picasso, but I sure love Temple Lide!!-thanks for any help ya'll can give me

Is that the pattern you are using on the 98 you are doing for me?

If you like, I will send you my email addy and I will post them for you. If not, you will need to get a photo hosting site account, like Photobucket. com and start from there.

That's so cool. My pops is trading me his Winny 63 and 12 fer a 10/22. What a sucker.

His looks almost nothing like the one in the picture, unfortunately.

these photos are from oldgunsmith......

Those are rifles ...........!

Thinkin' the same Bob....

The one on the bottom makes me squirm uncomfortably in my seat, and feels "inappropriate"...the way I'm lookin' at it!!!


Ingwe

Ingwe: We use to use a winter's day to run down into CT and hit Hallowell's where you could look at a head-swimming array of G&H's, Owen Springfield's and Mauser's Dowtins',Biesens' etc....it was sensory overload.....I used to have a Goens that is very similar to Wildcatter's,and another with lighter colored wood.....selling them was among my more irrational decisions...but I still love those rifles! They define true "custom",in contrast to some of the stuff that gets passed off as custom today....

While nobody else here seems to like maple, I sure do.

I love beautifully figgered Maple. I have an extra soft spot fer bird's eye with that permanganate finish.

Exbiologist, what's the caliber of your maple stocked rifle that you killed the elk with?

I'm thinking of going maple for a .260 Remington. I'm told that maple can't handle heavy re-coiling rounds well at all such as .375 H&H, .416 Rigby, etc. but I'm thinking a .260 Remington should be alright. It will see a lot of use.

Derby, that's a .264 win mag.

Thanks. Well if your maple stocked rifle can handle that round maple should be able to handle a .260 Remington.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

fun little touch with the stainless lilja barrel coated with teflon:

Maple will take the pounding. Proper bedding, fit, no worries.

hey guys, I was wondering if you have any tips for taking really sharp photos to post-tried it yesterday, but you can't see the intricacy of the checkering and incise carving on my gun-I'm not trying to brag on the gun, I am trying to get some info on the man that did the work and see if there are many people who have examples of his work-I was told that Brownell's used to cut his checkering tools special-think they are 36 lines to the inch, I haven't measured-they are alot finer than 24-any pointers would be helpful-thanks!