Butt stock wood???
 

Would like to re-stock Grade 2 Top Lever Hammer gun (1887). What would have been the type of wood used and where can you source such wood today? Any recommendations/hints of what I should be looking for in the quality of the piece? Thanks.

First - go to Cecil Fredi's website to look for the appropriate stock blank.






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Grade 2 hammer gun would have been American Walnut.
It should have some figure, but not over the top.
And as with any stock blank, good grain flow through the wrist is most important.

1885 Quality G, fully original.

Our member Ed Morgan in Galena, Ill. usually has black walnut blanks from his own trees. Ed usually brings stock blanks to the Southern SxS or call him.

Wilmurt:
Please check your PMs...

Grade 2 Hammer gun wood
 

This is what the wood looks like on mine.

I agree with Dean. I have gotten many stock blanks from Cecil and never been disappointed. He completely exchanged a nice blank of English Walnut for a Fox project when the smith found a defect when he was heading up the stock. No questions no BS just a full exchange for another blank. A quality person to do business with.

Wood difference???
 

What is the difference between American Walnut and Black Walnut, or are they the same?

Same.

American Black Walnut is a separate species of walnut (juglans nigra). And there are several other species of walnut that grow in North America.







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grade 2 toplever before any clean up

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Tom, Check your PM section. Ed

Juglandaceae -- Walnut family

Robert D. Williams

Black walnut (Juglans nigra), also called eastern black walnut and American walnut, is one of the scarcest and most coveted native hardwoods. Small natural groves frequently found in mixed forests on moist alluvial soils have been heavily logged. The fine straight-grained wood made prize pieces of solid furniture and gunstocks. As the supply diminishes, the remaining quality black walnut is used primarily for veneer. The distinctive tasting nuts are in demand for baked goods and ice cream, but people must be quick to harvest them before the squirrels. The shells are ground for use in many products.

I used to think that American black walnut was scarce untill I planted one, followed by 5 more when I moved to our farm in upstate NY. They started producing nuts after about 10 years and our local squirrel population did their jobs, and now we have over 300 scattered over two farms and I find more every year. They are fast growing and very weak when young and if in the open, need judicious pruning or they will turn into more of a bush than a tree. I walk the farms in January with my battery operated pole saw and prune. The first one I planted (almost 40 years ago) is 18" in diameter and over 60' high.