That's a beautiful piece of American walnut too--and if course a great job with it! Where did you get the wood?
The wood was cut by the Amish in Wisconsin. I searched for a long time to find this "chunk" of wood and it had been kiln dried. I've also found some fine boards of Maple with which I make sandwich laminates. Some spalted and some quite "curly".
The walnut specimen is a gift for a friend in Wisconsin and one of the ash species will be a gift to my brother for giving me the three blanks.
I have one more bolt rifle to make.....may post it later because it's quite different.
