Another stock build thread

[Decker9]

I knew that stippling looked familiar! Gorgeous work man!

Hey for you guys (@Decker9 @eLightfoot )that have done this a couple of times. For those of us wanting to dabble a bit, or even try and make a stock just for funsies, would making a blank up out of pine as a practice slab work ok? Yes, the grain would be a pain and its not as solid and nice to work with and keep straight, but to get kind of a feel for it, would that be a bad idea? or even to rough up a concept design to see ballpark how it would feel?

I’m not to familiar with wood characteristics, but I know birch has been used for gunstock material and can be found for cheap. I think carving a hardwood vs a softwood like pine would be quite different? I would be worried about the bending twisting and checking I think?

 

[JDT1982]

Very impressive