Lets see that pretty wood

[Decker9]

Ahh Turkish.
I’ve only completed one stock so far. But I used a trim router to rough out most of the inlet free hand. Then get after the rest with chisels/gouges, inletting grease.
Here’s my dad’s post 64 Winchester that I did, from an 06’ to a 6mmAI.

Beautiful piece!! I really like the colour in that wood. I’m a big fan of the ebony, the piece I put on this current stock build has some gorgeous colour in it, I should have it polished up in the next week or two.

I’d love to build my dad a stock, but I’m not sure I could peel his hands off his rifles, but he will take mine from time to time lol.

 

[Macintosh]

Not the prettiest wood but has some nice straight grain. Iv been told it looks like English walnut? I don’t know for sure. The cool part I think is it’s been here since 1952, my grandad ordered it to re stock a mannlicher, I figured it would be a good candidate for my first stock a handful of years ago.


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Anything is possible but that looks like Eastern Black Walnut to me. Not usually quite as nice to work with as regia, and takes more work usually to finish it and checker it, but it looks just great to me.