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i have a couple of new fruitwood stocks for SRCs and carbines that i had made up as replacement stocks ,short tang after 90.000.
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i have a couple of new fruitwood stocks for SRCs and carbines that i had made up as replacement stocks ,short tang after 90.000.
norm Care to give the stock maker a plug? Who made your stocks and how did they come out?
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I might be the one to blame for the "fruit wood" name. I started collecting Winchesters as my dad did. Winchester stocked some of their `92 and `94 carbines in the teen's and they were known to have "fruit wood" stocks, same mystery wood as used by Savage about 10 years later. I carried the term to the Savage Forum many moon's ago and it seems to have stuck. To my knowledge Savage never advertised nor published that they made the 99-H with any wood but walnut. One of those big Savage, never say "never" items.  I recently picked up an 1899H takedown in 22HP that I'm going to completely restore. Pretty sure it's not walnut. There is a crack in the Schnabel forearm. Did Savage use varnish or shellac or something else to finish the wood ?
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when I was collecting carpenter tools the fruit wood was either cheery or apple, were very common, sold my collection in 2000, the next year the market crashed, I still have a few top shelf pcs, some with fruit wood
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Fruit wood=Red Gum
A blonde wood with generally a very straight grain
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Yep,
Winchester also used and referred to the wood of the Red Gum that grows abundantly in the Southern States and on the Pacific Coast as ‘Gumwood’.
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Red gum = sweet gum = Liquidambar styraciflua. It has interlocking grain resulting in resistance to splitting. Actually it does not split it just tears apart.
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I saw one reference to the 99H’s being made with birch for a while. Not an authoritative source, in my mind. Doesn’t look like the later 99E stocks, tho.
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Birch end grain different from gum end grain. Although I have never had one in hand when I see those H "fruit wood" stocks there isn't anything that makes me think they are birch.
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The finish definitely doesn't make me think birch. I'll have to see if I can't find it again sometime.
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