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A reminder of the ash project

Very nice!

Wow

Just an addition....walnut root wood widow's peak

Dang both of your rifles are beautiful. That's some mighty fine work on the widow's peak....you should be proud. Congratulations. I'm anxious to see what type of action and caliber you select.......

Actually it only one rifle. It will house a Howa 7-08

Beautiful. Love the grain of ash.

Looks great! Thanks for the follow up pictures.

Just added some sling swivel studs

Very purty. 😀 I wish I had the patience, skill and tools to do that.

Excellent,

appreciate you sharing your work.

Dude, why you asking us? You're definitely a pro at this. Just show us some picks when you're through.

Vapodog; thank you for your ongoing efforts in keeping us informed on the ash project. Your stock work is beautiful. The choice of a 7-08 Howa is stellar in my opinion, for what my opinion is worth

Thanks again for sharing the story and pictures.

GRF

cutting the bolt handle relief



The bolt handle seems to fit nicely


And sand a ramp for the eject port.

Gorgeous. I am very envious of your skills.

Nice work!

Outstanding work. I never thought ash could look that good. All the ask trees around here are either dead or dying. I had to take down all the ash trees in my yard - 40 or so - a long time ago. They went into my fireplace.

Very nice stock!

I wonder why walnut has been, traditionally, the sigle wood choice for gun stocks.

By far the best common wood, worldwide due to mechanical characteristics. Only one NA wood has better mechanical properties when comparing equally dense woods. That would be bigleaf maple, but it is usually much less dense than walnut. Among the characteristics making a difference (in no particular order) would be stability in use, bending strength, hardness, average density, beauty, tendency to (not) split, shrinkage rates in the two major cross-grain directions, ease of drying, and others. Many are great in a specification or two, few are close in all the categories.

Maples are okay, but usually if they are tough enough to be really good they are mighty heavy. And because the various strength characteristics vary due to many mechanical properties just being heavy is not everything.

Myrtle makes a beautiful stock and performs well, but it is quite difficult to dry and supply and distribution are lacking.

Weatherby used screwbean mesquite for a while on some stocks, but it is rarely big enough.

That walnut root tip complements the stock nicely. Often as not, I find fore stock tips a net drag on a stock's appearance, but the shape and color tones really work with this one. Well done.