Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Visited a stockmaker's shop today. (lots of pictures)

Spent a nice couple of hours today visiting with Chris Schofield of Walnut Grove Gunstocks. Ostensibly I drove over to discuss a pattern for the left handed Mausers a bunch of us bought but I came away with an idea for restocking a LH Model 70 with a piece of walnut I've had sitting around for 10 years or so.

Chris' shop and house are on about 5 acres outside of Weiser, ID, and it was nice to go drive through my old stomping grounds. He's a neat guy wih a neat place. Instead of chattering I'll let the pictures do the talking.


Walking in the front door, lots of wood. Lots of patterns. Lots and lots of really, really nice wood and patterns all around.





Closer view of some of those patterns.




Nice wood in these blanks - really nice wood.



Just chunks of wood. Expensive, very pretty chunks of wood.



The "regular" chunks of wood. I think most folks would be real happy to find any of these on a factory rifle.




Big slabs of walnut ready to made into those "chunks of wood".

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Slabs of maple.

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Outside the shop is the sawmill. A tree trunk ready to be turned into slabs. This picture doesn't show the proper size, but believe me, this ain't no little stump here.

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The beautifully figured trash! Seriously. There are dozens if not hundreds of lovely knife scales or whatever hiding inside these. Chris gave me that big block of walnut in the foreground to take home. Thanks, Chris!

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