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Yep, as explained in the post. (Somehow have not figured out how to post photos and words at the same time.)

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Originally Posted by vapodog
Here is a Maple stock I built for a Howa 1500

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Love that spalted maple. To get that size of a piece where the fungus formed the lines but didn't damage the wood is pretty rare.


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stock number two of three.....looks like a winner I'd say

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Beautiful!

Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

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Purty. I love it.


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Wow!


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Excellent vapodog.

Ash is no longer just for baseball bats.

Keep the pics coming.


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Kudos to you VapoDog! I’ve got hundreds of standing dead ash thanks to the Emerald Ash Borer.

An interesting factoid is that Ash’s low tannins make it susceptible to the EAB, but is also why it’s leaves are a significant food source for tadpoles.


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Very cool to see a tree from your own history get used for a nice project. Ash is becoming a wood I look to use more as we are in the hot zone of the Emerald Ash borer. I fear it may be our next American Chestnut in our area. There is a very good stand if it in the North East and it has been a staple for projects like canoe parts and tool handles. Unfortunately it is not rot resistant and once the tree dies on the stump there is a very short window to use it before the lumber is effected.
Again very nice stock work. Thank you for posting the photos.


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Absoutely beautiful wood and crafmanship! Having split a lot ash for the stove,one of its great qualities is that it splits easily-did you take and extra precautions against splitting-pinning the wrist.etc.?

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Originally Posted by JimH
Absoutely beautiful wood and crafmanship! Having split a lot ash for the stove,one of its great qualities is that it splits easily-did you take and extra precautions against splitting-pinning the wrist.etc.?

No....but I will give it some serious thought.

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here is the last of the three that was cut from that tree

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The barreled actions are all 100% inletted so it's not a long shot to finishing them. Maybe by December

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They look good.

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I had no idea Ash had that kind of figure.When I was making knives I used a lot of stabilized Butternut Burl and Stabilized Birch Burl.They had some knockout figure.


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If you ever get into hand to hand combat with a bear and you have to use one as a club, just be sure you’re holding the “trademark” up. 😀

Those have all turned out spectacularly.


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Absoutely beautiful wood and crafmanship! Having split a lot ash for the stove,one of its great qualities is that it splits easily-did you take and extra precautions against splitting-pinning the wrist.etc.?

No....but I will give it some serious thought.

Thank you.


Beautiful work vapodog.....and beautiful wood!! I wouldn’t be too concerned about stability in those pieces. I too have split ALOT of ash and the straight grained pieces split incredibly easy - the not so straight pieces (branches, butt area, and other types of irregular natural features) do not and that’s were yours came from. I’ve had to use the 34-ton spliter on those pieces and they still do not easily split. Again great work and thanks for sharing!

I’ve been working with some black cherry burl on a couple of Winchester 9422 stocks that I’ll share when/if I can ever get them finished!

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This is the metalwork to run with the wood.


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Wow, that looks great. Please keep the pictures and details coming.

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The beauty of that wood plus the fact you know the history of the tree combine to make this even more special!!

Keep the pics coming please.

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