English Walnut on a Parker

[todd allen]

I have an old stock blank set that I originally bought to use on an upgraded Parker .
That is not happening now, so I was thinking about maybe using it on a Parker trap gun project.
I like quality wood on a shotgun, maybe more than engraving.
The project gun is a 1935 vent rib trap gun with 32" barrels. If I went forward, this gun would become my clays gun. Wood is from Cecil Fredi 20 plus years ago.
How big of a crime would this be?
Here's the wood:
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[todd allen]

Here is the gun:
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[CraigThompson]

None of my buisness but ......... , if it’s anywhere near fitting me I’d shoot the wood on it and set the blocks back for possible later projects .

[Dean Romig]

It would be nice to use that Fredi blank on that gun to make a proper stock and forend for it.

JMHO of course.





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[todd allen]

I would have the existing wood duplicated, and keep the original wood.
This is just a concept at this point, but if I move forward, I will sell something I'm not using to finance the deal.
If this comes together, I would love to go back to some of those SxS shoots and smash those Fox and LC Smith guys ;-)

[Brian Dudley]

Well, it is your gun. Do what you want.

You did not say what grade the gun is.

The species would be plenty appropriate for a D or higher. But would of course not be correct for a V or G. American walnut would be “correct” for that.

It has great grain flow for a PG.

[todd allen]

Brian, it's a VHE.

[tom tutwiler]

Cecil had and still has some nice wood. It certainly is over the too for a VHE, but its sorta what floats your boat. I would say save the original stock and restock the gun to fit you. Nothing worse then a lovely blank sitting in a closet nit being used. Short answer is write the check and go for it. PS. What does the other side of the blank look like?

[John Davis]

Just curious, what’s wrong with the stock that’s on the gun now?

[Dean Romig]

The existing stock looks like it might be a DelGrego replacement, what name is on the recoil pad?






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[tom tutwiler]

The existing stock looks like it might be a DelGrego replacement, what name is on the recoil pad?






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Dean the few DelGrego pads I've seen were black with their name on the end. Did they make multiple color pads?

[Dean Romig]

Tom, I’ve seen a few brown ones.





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[Brian Dudley]

Yes, the current stock is not original.

[Brian Dudley]

If you use that blank, get a different forend piece. I would not use that for the forend on a SxS. It would not be strong and would be a pain to work with. Or if the gun were a splinter, you could get it out of the butt piece.

I have a few times had to go back to cecil and exchange forend blanks for straighter ones.

[todd allen]

The existing stock looks like it might be a DelGrego replacement, what name is on the recoil pad?

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This gun came to me in a trade, and did not have a recoil pad. I installed a Decelerator. The pad was not fitted to this gun, and is slightly oversized.
I took the pad from a gun I had sold, and it pretty much just bolted on.
This gun has the Parker Single Trigger, which needs a little work.
The selector doesn't work properly, (won't fire left barrel first if selected) and has a very heavy trigger pull.
I've heard that some shooters cranked up trigger pull weights to stave off flinching problems. Don't know if that's the case here, but the gun is a project.
Possibly a very good project.
A friend of mine has been saying that he thinks this gun should be upgraded to an A, AA, or maybe an A1, but I don't have the finances for a project on that level.
A wood upgrade would be it for me.

[todd allen]

Cecil had and still has some nice wood. It certainly is over the too for a VHE, but its sorta what floats your boat. I would say save the original stock and restock the gun to fit you. Nothing worse then a lovely blank sitting in a closet nit being used. Short answer is write the check and go for it. PS. What does the other side of the blank look like?

Here's the right side. Both sides are good, but different.
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[Rich Anderson]

I have to agree with Brian that I wouldn't use that forearm blank and that the wood is over the top for a VHE. Watt's Walnut has some very nice black walnut blanks that would be more appropriate for your project. I bought a very nice blank from him for a rifle project for $300.