Let's see some wood!

[Tom Flanigan]

I just re-read the posts and saw that the gun was restocked. In that case, if I was going to hunt with it, I would bore a hole through the grip lengthwise from the head of the stock and install a long bolt surrounded by acraglas. Absolutely beautiful wood.

I had to do this with a beautiful civil war muzzleloader that was presented to a general by the state of Maine. Unfortunately, when I bought the gun it was badly cracked through the wrist in multiple places. I fixed it with the long bolt method and re-checkered over the cracks. It was a beautiful piece of wood but the burl ran right through the grip. You'd have to look very closely and know where the cracks were to see them now.

[B. Dudley]

Not wood that is one a gun, but someday will be.

Last week I had the opportunity to buy 42 high quality stock blanks from the estate of a since passed gunsmith that was a friend of a friend of my family. He passed 5 years ago and was a life long practicing general gunsmith. Primarily working on and building custom rifles.

In the lot was Circassian (english, turkish, french), Bastogne, Claro and American. All of it is very old. He had everything dated, not sure if they were cut dates or purchase dates, but the oldest date is 1959 and the newest is 1973!

Now I just need to find room to store it all. On top of the nearly 150 blanks that I already had on hand.

As an aside... there was about 20 blanks of very nice Myrtle that I left behind since I do not work with it, so if anyone may know an interested party... let me know.

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