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Marvelous work, vapodog!!!

Now show me again where the painted plastic stocks can compare with these examples of stunning beauty.

Those are really nice Vapodog - excellent work!!

PennDog

I thank each and every one of you for your encouraging comments. It goes a very long ways in making me want to continue things like this.....

If you have curly Ash, it makes a checkerboard type pattern on a stock. I've seen several KY longrifles with curly ash and they had a really different look. It tends to be heavy, but on a modern rifle with a hunting taper barrel, it shouldn't be a problem.

Outstanding!!!

Wow vapodog those are amazing.


Thank you so much for your efforts in bringing us along on this project

Beautiful work 👍

Nothing wrong with those,they are good looking.

My father in law did work like that. I always envied him that talent - he did better woodwork when he was 16 than I could ever do. Beautiful.

@OP - Beautiful rifles. Well done...

Just for thits and giggles, I'll throw this in as it was done along with the ash stocks. This is black American walnut:
It houses a Model 70 post 64 featherweight in .257 Roberts.

Absolutely amazing work. Ash is a favorite of mine. Copied a very large desk that was used in the shipyard in town by the paymaster. That is up in VT at my cousins and will serve their family for years.
Its really unfortunate that the Emerald Ash borer is loose in the North East. Ash is dead on the stump all over New England. And due to the open pores of the wood it rots on the stump quickly. The long tradition of bats, paddles and other useful items made of Ash looks to be headed the same path as American Chestnut.
Your stocks are a great tribute to a fine tree. Thanks for posting.
Bob

Nice chunka wood.

vapodog;
Good morning to you sir, Happy Father's Day if that applies.

Thanks so much for sharing the photos of the stocks with us. The ash and walnut stocks have stunning figure in them!

As someone whose done a wee bit of checkering in the dim past, I'll say whomever did that is very, very talented and has good eyes... well they did when they were checkering those stocks!

Honestly that's the toughest part now for me. The spirit is willing, but the eyes are weak!

Thanks again and all the best.

Dwayne

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.

Looking forward to seeing it!

very nice!