I like the gun too, but I'm really impressed with all that nice wood. WOW!
Uncle Russ...
A friend of mine has a place down along the snake river .
I was down at his place setting up a smoothbore for a customer when the owner of the land next to DJ’s came down . We had finished shooting for the day and was setting back under the trees having a cold one when the subject of conversation turned to stock wood .
DJ mentioned the figured walnut stock on Beaverman’s Isaac Haines rifle . That lead to the neighbor stating that he had an black walnut on his place that was at least 100 years old . It had died some 5-10 years back and was still standing down on the old homestead . Said I could have it if I wanted it other wise he was going to push it over and cut it up for fire wood in the next few weeks .
So we packed up and went to take a look .
We took a D9 and pushed it over . I cut it into 8ft lengths and we loaded them up on a car trailer with a front loader .
I then stated calling around and found a local fella with a mill who agree do to slab it out for me for 100.00 and the cost of any blades he might tear up .
I ended up with 22 planks ranging fro 8-24 inchs across , 4 to 6 inchs deep and 8 ft long .
What you see in the photo is about 8 ft of what i have . That stack actually covers 12 ft of that wall and another 12 ft along another wall .
wasn’t to long after that that I had a customer come in who was trying to make his own stock from an English walnut that his father had cut down some 30 years back and set the planks to dry . Problem was , he didn’t seal the ends so the planks split . He said that if I would cut him out a couple blanks for his Remington , he would give me what was left . Thus I have those two English walnut planks that are split , which you see in the photo . While split they still work for ½ stocks , butt and forearms or pistol stocks …. But for the most part they are split fairly bad . he also gave me an additional 5 planks that same size which are far more usable . however none of the english really has any figure to it .
of the black walnut , i have maybe 5 planks that have very nice figure .
every time i cut a stock out of it , its like christmas . you just never know whats hidding in there.
Juan finally decide on a base engraving pattern seen for the patch box .
way , way above his skill level . not to mention mine. But since he talked me into giving it a go , I guess ill give it a shot. don’t think im good enough yet to do the pattern justice . We will just have to see how it turns out on a practice plate first .
basicly it will be this with a leaf pattern on the final and front half of the lid and final . then a rope patern around the back of the lid .
as i said , i dont know . going to be a real challange for sure
dont know who the artist was who drew this but ,DAM!! they sure did a good job.
i guess im going to have to find out who the picture belongs to over the next coming months
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