I've explained to the guy at the mill exactly what I'm looking for and he's familiar with milling finish lumber. He's going to quarter saw it for me.
I don't remember if the walnut was alive or dead when it was cut down about a year ago (by someone else). I'm just getting what they left laying on the ground and potentially going to dig out the stumps.
One of the reasons I'm doing this as the 87 year old man that owns the farm is a close friend and thinks it would be really cool for me to make a gun stock out of a black walnut that is from his farm. I don't neccessarily need an exhibition piece, but would like something with some figure in it to dress up my Howa 1500 that is currently wearing a plastic stock.
