Walnet Stock blanks

I have a lot of custom rifles with beautiful stock blanks. The layout on the ones shown are not good and I wouldn't be interested at any price. A good wood person knows that a dry piece of wood is different than a dry and cured piece of wood. Most quality stockmakers get $3500+ to chop out your wood. I want quality wood from a wood person that stands behind his wood. I use Roger Vardy in Australia. My on going stock had not so good piece of wood after carving on it. Roger immediately sent another piece of wood.
 
Right now in the Appalachian area 2 inch thick walnut is bringing 4780 dollars per thousand board feet for clear stock. Wood needs to be dried to 8 to 12 per cent to be stable. I kiln dried some 2 inch walnut a week or so ago in 7 days, which is a little fast but it was in a poplar charge which dries at a much faster rate. I sold a piece to a stock maker and the stock he made turned out fine.
 
Butch hit the nail on the head. What you have there in the photos is totally useless for gunstock wood, combine that with the fact you sawed it all up without proper drying and you probably just wasted a good walnut tree.
 
alinwa said:
Hey Butch...

Have you ever seen the Southern OR/Northern CA strain of Walnut from Goby?

http://www.gobywalnut.com/catalog/walnut-slabs-c-20_65.html

It's cherry colored walnut!
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Al,
I do not know the guy. Pretty big slabs. I need one more blank for my 40X rimfire Tin Can shooter. It will probably be my last wood stock custom. Roger Vardy has been great to deal with. He handles all the shipping and export. Very reasonable prices and his blanks are air dried and 10-15 years old. A few of the very best stockmakers in the USA love his wood.


http://rogervardystockwood.com/
 
al:

Back awhile there was a thread on stock wood, and here is a piece of that Southern Oregon/Northern California walnut that I helped work down from the slabs my former boss got in the late 70's or early '80's:

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z222/rick4070/100_0473.jpg

Rifle is a .35 Whelen on a 1909 Argentine Mauser.

I worked for the company 10 years, and averaged a rifle a year for myself or friends, doing the metal work and stock work.

I kept the Whelen, a 7mm STW on a VZ24, and a .505 Gibbs on a Pattern 14 Enfield.

BTW, My former employer wasn't Goby, he had a shop near Chehalis, Washington, and got the slabs himself, first time I ever saw a Stihl 090 with a 8' long bar.....
 
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Rick4070 said:
al:

Back awhile there was a thread on stock wood, and here is a piece of that Southern Oregon/Northern California walnut that I helped work down from the slabs my former boss got in the late 70's or early '80's:

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z222/rick4070/100_0473.jpg

Rifle is a .35 Whelen on a 1909 Argentine Mauser.

I worked for the company 10 years, and averaged a rifle a year for myself or friends, doing the metal work and stock work.

I kept the Whelen, a 7mm STW on a VZ24, and a .505 Gibbs on a Pattern 14 Enfield.

BTW, My former employer wasn't Goby, he had a shop near Chehalis, Washington, and got the slabs himself, first time I ever saw a Stihl 090 with a 8' long bar.....
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Yup, that's the stuff.

First time I saw it I was embarrassed but finally had to ask the guy...."Did you really??? STAIN this hunk of wood???"

And he laffed...... "nope"

al


Ohhh yeahh, those long bars are "for you don't have to bend over walking the trunk limbing"
 
Butch Lambert said:
Al,
I do not know the guy. Pretty big slabs. I need one more blank for my 40X rimfire Tin Can shooter. It will probably be my last wood stock custom. Roger Vardy has been great to deal with. He handles all the shipping and export. Very reasonable prices and his blanks are air dried and 10-15 years old. A few of the very best stockmakers in the USA love his wood.


http://rogervardystockwood.com/
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They do stocks




http://www.gobywalnut.com/catalog/rifles-c-2_6.html
 
alinwa said:
Yup, that's the stuff.

First time I saw it I was embarrassed but finally had to ask the guy...."Did you really??? STAIN this hunk of wood???"

And he laffed...... "nope"

al


Ohhh yeahh, those long bars are "for you don't have to bend over walking the trunk limbing"
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The bar also had a "stinger" (handle) on the end of the bar so two people could use it, some of those slabs were quite wide....

The local saw shop hated to see Jim come in on one of their: "We'll sharpen any chain for $2" promotion days.....:D
 
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