show great stock wood again please. you perbs stay away

You're in luck as this was just posted in the zoo this morning.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...0366278/1/Hung_like_a_horse?_Well_folks.

A real pretty piece of Turkish Circassian walnut. It made a stunning stock.

Probably the nicest piece of English Walnut I've ever seen. It made a nice stock also.

I have few wood stocked rifles, but when I stumbled across this stock at the fun show I had to bring her home with me. 788 with a custom barrel chambered in 260.


At the range working up loads (hence the T36). It really likes the 139 scenar.

Wow!

If I want to look at some stock porn I go look at Joel Russo's pictures. His stocks are absolutely beautiful.

$50,000+ blank.



$50,000+ blank.



Less dense for LW's.



Straighter gran for Boomers.




Now as far as stocks go,there's but a single material...but the Fan Boy Schit IS fhuqking funny!

Pink is a great Whine Starter.



But I must admit,I'm a greater fan of sedate/subdued hues,which blend in more Au Naturale with the surroundings....................

Here is another. It's a nice Turkish mannlicher blank. This one hasn't been turned into anything yet. IMO, really nice layout with about the right amount of figue and fiddleback. It's sitting in the closet waiting it's turn.

That is a beautiful blank and will make up into a stunning rifle but then that is what I have come to expect after seeing some of your blank and rifle pics

tc1 please show the other side. my second rifle will be a full stock 9.3-62

factory wood. Choots, too...



small factory wood...at least as much as you can call Shiloh a factory...

Bottom one in both images. At the stockmakers now. I'm hoping it turns out well!

Here is the flip side

tc1 thanks a lot. still keeping my eye out for something like that. found one but they were asking $4000 silly people.

It should, it's a great looking blank.

Purdiest one I ever had. C. Sharps Arms

Good grief, it won't get much nicer than that! Is that from Shiloh? I would like something like that on my '77 if they ever start building them...

20 gauge
284 Winchester

James Flynn, gunmaker, stocking a Dakota Model 10 for Terry Weiland. It turned out pretty nice. I dropped by James' shop while he was working on it. That's one of the nicest pieces of walnut I've seen.

DF



Gun in the white before engraving.

yes, Shiloh - a .45-90 #1 Sporter. "Extra Fancy" by the way, not "Presentation", which is the next higher grade

I really don't know how you could upgrade that stick, 'cause it's damn near full flame burl figure in the butt. The 77 does have a little different wood options than the 74.

I've thought about ordering a 77 myself. But I talk about light barrels in .38-55 and heads spin.

They have made at least one of them, that was at the NRA show...

Shiloh has made 2 but they are company guns. I put my deposit on mine in December 2013 and they told me 15 months. Don't get in a hurry to get a '77...

yep, and they will cost a good bit more than a 74. I confess I have priced it out at their site....

My 257 Rob on a Pre 64 M70

Here is a pre 64 M70 custom in 300 Win. M.

I shot it today TTSX's!

I've posted these pics over on Single Shots, but since this is about great wood.....

Beautiful!!!! Awesome!!!

Not a rifle but the wood aint bad. Stocks by Dave Vandenbrand, my all arounder Rem 11-87. Stocks are getting pretty worn and could use a face lift.

Ithaca 37 Supreme


Restocked Ruger in .257 Weatherby


Pre-war magnum with Keith Brown Ropers


Restocked Parker VH from 1904


A couple of No 1s with factory Circassian

Gotta love them Brown's.

Not sure which is better porn; this thread, or the .223AI one in Miscellaneous.

WOW!

Gorgeous wood AND in 45 Colt to boot! Yahoo!

Here's a 500 MDM (50 cal-RUM Case) caliber stocked by Accurate Innovations with aluminum bedding block for strength.




300 H&H on a Mauser VZ-24 by Mike Cuypers at Bijou Creek Customs.




My Blaser R8

Here's another Keith Brown set..."Coke" copies on an unfired S&W K22 Heritage.
Bob

For the 'blond' lovers out there =>

And the lever fanatics =>

On the left is a custom Mauser stocked by John Mercer and on the right is a model 70 Supergrade.

My dad and I are having grips made out of these blanks by Rowen Custom Grips for our Ruger Redhawk's that are going to Hamilton Bowen for his kodiak conversion.

Man that sure is pretty....

Another beautiful "classic" style stock. Who stocked and built this one ?

That is some good lookin wood on that Blaser!

Cooper LVT 22lr,

Maple stocked built by Hal Hartley in 1952. My poor photography skills cannot do this stock and rifle justice.

I can see where personal tastes come into play here. There are a couple of these that, for my tastes, are down right ugly. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Jim

I don't have a picture of the the blank but here's one built with a decent piece of Turkish Circassian.

IMO, there isn't one pictured here I wouldn't be proud to own.

This is a pre-carve just as I got it back from Charlie Grace. I made a pattern stock for a CZ rimfire sporter and Charlie machined the blank to my pattern.

Dick

The other side of the pre-carve for my CZ sporter.

Dick Wright

Dick, looks great! Is it your winter project to finish it?

Joel,

It's actually nearly done. This is a pic taken just before I started to finish it. It is currently out to Kip Wood (Central Michigan Gunsmithing) for checkering.

Dick

This is what it looked like after the first coat of finish. Dull areas are where it needs more finish.

I hope to post pice of the completed rifle soonish.

Dick

WOW!!

Beautiful stuff here...

Burl Rosewood, ROA.

DF

Grips are cheaper than rifle/shotgun stocks...

Kind of hard to see but these below are fancy factory walnuts on a Ruger 357 Flattop. Really stunning when in the hand.



A favorite 44 Special Ruger with Calgary high school woodshop recovery walnut.



An OMSBH 44 Mag from a chunk of dense walnut I bought off ebay.





Another favorite 44 Special Ruger with mild walnut.



A 38 WCF Flattop with amboyna burl.

First generation Colt SAA .45 with one piece Rosewood grips...

Nice wood, Shrap.

Did you do the fitting?

With rich rosewood, it's often so oily most finishes have problems drying. I found a good soaking in acetone sucks a lot of that oil out of the wood, making it easier to finish.

With the burl rosewood pictured earlier, I did that and noted the acetone took the black background off the Ruger medallion. That's OK, as it looks good on the SS ROA.

I used Custom Pro oil, a tung oil/urethane product that Brownells sells. It's harder and tougher than Tru-Oil.

DF

EdM - Shrapnel, Love those single action grips. I have a nice set of customs on one of my FA 83s but can't find a pic at the moment to share.

I am pretty proud of timber on this CZ 527 Prestige in 22 Hornet. Still unfired... might have to change the next time I am home.

Does anyone have a marble cake? Yellowish stock with black streaks

Is this what you're looking for?

Right side

I had a local gunsmith make those out of a chunk of Rosewood that he had lying around. This was his first time making one piece grips, they came out great and only cost me $75.00...

Nice...!

What's the story on that one?

DF

I fell into this 257 Rob made by Glen Morovitz of Newell, SD about 5-6 years back. Glen stocked for Dakota Arms and a few others until he went off on his own. I was looking to build something, hopefully, as nice and found a gent in VA who deals in Pre 64 M70 actions. He asked what I was looking for so he sent me about 40 email pics a few hours after we talked and it was all I could do to keep my jaw off the floor. Glen made the rifle for him and some how, in the communication the LOP was about 1/2" too short so he sold it to me at a price I could not pass on. I've nearly sold it 2x but thankfully realized i'll never own a piece of wood like this for the rest of my life. It hates light or mono metal bullets but loves most anything 115 gr or heavier and either IMR 4350 and both 4831's. Finally killed a mulie doe last year up behind the house. With either the 115 BT or 120 PT, the drops line up perfectly with the B&C reticle in the 2.5-8 VX3.

When I was first doing load development I sent it out to Charley Santoni of CS Sports in Woodland, CA to let him look at it to see if he could help determine why it wouldn't shoot anything tight. He called a day after he got it and proclaimed it was the finest rifle he'd ever laid hand or eyes on. He asked to shoot it and proclaimed it was a temperamental whore when it came to mono metal bullets but it liked his standby load of 115 BT and IMR 4831.

Nice butts.

Dang good thread !

I guess if you that pretty, you can get by with being a temperamental Ho...

DF

Not yellowish but marble cake I think.

Nice, Ed.

That one about has it all, flame, crotch, fiddleback and marble.

And, you got a bunch of real pretty ones...

DF

Agreed. That is the finest looking 788 I've seen. Nice rifle, slm9s. My old 788 is original, but you make me want to re-stock it.

There is some absolutely awesome wood/rifles in this thread. This is about as nice as I currently own. Don't have too many wood rifles:

If I see correctly, double side hammers/triggers, bar (?) action locks, damascus barrels, triple/3rd lock and lovely wood. God, I love SxS's!

Alan

Westley Richards 10 bore with Stanton Sidelocks and Kilby Barrels from Birmingham, England. 32 inch barrels and weighs in at 12 1/2 pounds, a real nice fowling piece for the energetic sportsman...

Don't think I have a picture of my SxS. A Manton of London. It's a Birmingham BLE on a W&S Screw Grip action with very light n long 30" barrels. It has a third bite, double triggers and a straight grip. At 6 lb 2 oz, with .010" and .023" chokes it an upland killer for sure though the wood surely isn't as pretty as yours Shrapnel.

Alan

This one is really the Crown Jewell. It was made in 1868, before they were even using brass shotgun shells. The wood is original and the gun in fantastic shape considering it is 150 years old.

Steven Dodd Hughes just wrote a 2 column article on it for the next 2 editions of Shooting Sportsman. It is truly the epitome of the gun maker's art and revolutionary in many aspects of all the virtues of this gun...

Oh HECK yes! Island locks (?), round action, gorgeous wood. Ejectors or extractors? Weight?

A tidy lightweight 8x57 Erfurt Mauser I picked up in north Idaho some years ago.

Ruger No 1


Parker VH, restocked by JJ Jenkins

A pre-64 M70 358 Win.

Like I posted earlier, you got some real pretty ones, no doubt.

Thanks for sharing. I never get tired of looking at your stable of fine guns.

You got good taste...

DF

Round body, back action, sidelocks , and extractors. Ejectors didn't show up until the 1880's. The percussion persuasion is evident in the fences around the firing pins and the key holding on the forearm...

WOW!

Now, that's cool...

DF

That's right. Island locks are surrounded by wood.

Alan

My Browning Safari .308 pencil barrel. Not bad for $650 at an estate auction sale. It kills stuff too.

Not as fancy as some, but historic. This is Maj. Charles Askins, Sr.'s personal Superposed. He was one of the top gunwriters and shotgun gurus of the '30's and 40's and Col. Charles Askins, Jr.'s father.

Wood restored by James Flynn, Gunmaker, right down to the vintage, flat topped checkered diamonds. Flynn is a master of the leather pad. The Major had a rubber pad that had been replace and the replacement was in bad shape. So we went with period appropriate restoration rather than literal photo perfect reproduction. We could have gotten Silvers or Hawkins reproduction pads, but because of Flynn's expertise with pigskin, this was a no-brainer. Photos by Flynn.

This rather long thread tells the story.

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=124719

DF

That is one sweet superposed DF. What year was it originally made?

1932.

Yeah, I was fortunate to luck into it. Traded a Jap Browning Sporting Clays even for this old gun, just because I liked the lines, the solid rib, how it was set up, etc.

Only later did I find out about the provenance. The shop I traded with wasn't too happy when they found out what they let slip thru their hands.

Oh well...

Sometimes, even a blind hog finds an acorn...

DF

Glad the shotgun went to a good home that appreciates it....

I had a Superposed that was the 198th one made after the end of WWII that I have passed down to my son. It is one fine shooting 12 gauge shotgun with dark french walnut on it.

I don't think I've seen that one before. That is nice!

.257 Roberts on a VZ24.

Beauty. Who did the stock work?

Ray Price,an ACGG member who has since passed on.

Morris Hallowell had a Ray Price custom in .375 H&H a while back.

I should have bought that one.

It would have been a beauty I'm sure. He did both stock and metalwork including his own bottom metal on some rifles.

You the Dick Wright,that I met at the super shoot some years ago, wrote for Precision Shooting and knows Jeff Aberegg. Beautiful piece of wood in that stock.

That would be me. I talked to Jeff recently... the authorities never did catch up to him.

This is the first picture taken of the rifle above after it was finally finished. I got the parts back that were out for bluing and put it together yesterday. I will add the scope and it will be ready to shoot.

I never seem to get a picture to work on here so you get a folder with a bunch. Its a stock I did myself, other then the checkering. The action is from the first rifle I ever bought back in jr high. https://picasaweb.google.com/115516601528181241557/20111205?authkey=Gv1sRgCIbxsfOWvMa5IQ


And Nice to see your name pop up on here Dick, read a lot of your stuff in Precision Shooting. Of course I do partially blame you for costing me a LOT of money in these dang custom accurate guns!

That's a beautiful rifle and a fantastic buck. Now, do the rifle a favor and mount about anything other than a Vortex on it.

Drives tacks with the vortex near and far, dials spot on. Have a bunch and will stay with what works.

Thanks

+1

You done good, twice...

DF

30-06 by Sterling Davenport. I've sold off all but one of my wood and blued rifles, and not bought one in many years. But, the craftsmanship of the carved stock really spoke to me. The carving provides a really solid grip, more so than any checkering I've ever handled. Hope to have a photo with it beside a nice deer this season.

What's with the little gold stars?

Don't know, trying to find out more of the history of the rifle.

It has a Texas/Alamo theme. I sent Mr. Davenport a letter to find out more about it. The engraving was added after he finished the rifle, so he does not know. So, I am just going with it represents the stars of the Texas sky until someone comes up with a better explanation. I did not like it at first, but it has grown on me. The rifle was purchased from Cabela's in Buda. All they knew was that Cabela's buyer bought a whole estate, but would not disclose the original owner's name. So, I'm working on finding out what I can. It had a matching 375 H&H, which someone else bought. Mr. Davenport said the customer was from the Houston area. If anyone has more info, I'd love to know more. Anyway, I'm enjoying it.

Here is the floorplate.

Interesting. Shoot it much? Hunt with it?

Just bought it recently.

Season opens next month and hoping to tag a nice deer with it.

It will be in the rotation.

English Walnut I'm putting a Kimber into.

Hell yes need to start a bespoke or classic rifle category.
Hard to ooohh aaaahh over another plastic gun. Although they have their purpose.

Need to keep the craft and tradition going.

That is going to be a beautiful rifle.......would like to see the finished product.

thanks all for posting. D O M I T !

It'll be awhile before its finished, but I'll post it when its done. Trying to decide checkering pattern now.

Couldn't resist this at the local gun show yesterday.







Flyer

That is down right STUNNING!

Does this qualify? Sorry for the poor cell-phone photos.

Yep, it does!

Sure does!

50 cal. left hand flintlock built by me.
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This Ruger M77 Mk. 1 7mm Rem Mag sat in a pawn shop for almost a year. Built in 1978, with a mesquite fully bedded stock.she was dirty, neglected and beat-up. I bought her, replaced the bottom metal and trigger guard with new old stock steel parts, cleaned up and machine turned the bolt. Installed new scope mounts, rings and scope. Had a muzzle brake installed. Cleaned up the stock, touched up the the bluing. She shoots straight too! Pawn Shop Queen Album [img]https://goo.gl/photos/YQy54wcQ44b6Jnup8[/img]

She's a beauty! Maple?

Should be a Blacktail killin mo-sheen

Yep, Maple from a little company in Pennsylvania that cut long wood for full stocks.