horsemen61
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Man if I could get one with a maple stock deep blue finish 6.5 Creedmoor i don’t want the big claw extractor though and if I’m wishing I want it in a featherweight
Who likes maple?!
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morcey2
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Somewhere there's a Les Paul weeping because its maple top doesn't look that good.
I like maple necks/fretboards on Strats (guitar) if that counts.
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The LGS has a gorgeous Browning T-bolt in .22 Mag. I had a .22 Mag and sold it because I never used it. But wow is it beautiful
Riomouse911
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Man, that maple stands out beautifully with the darker checkered area! One beautiful rifle for sure!
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Olympus
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I had a maple Browning T-Bolt that was completely figured with fiddleback. Most beautiful rifle I ever owned, but wouldn't hold a decent group with any ammo, had a cheap plastic trigger guard and magazine well, and the trigger was heavy has all get out. All that rifle was good for was showing off to my buddies. Kinda like a hot chick that won't put out.
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After seeing this post, I think the next rifle I re-stock will get maple. Torn between the Western striped maple and some figured/birdseye sugar maple. I live in a house with 120 year old growth maple flooring. It's a poor man's house, so flooring was mill-run. Man some of those boards should have been gunstocks. Ever seen a 20' long 3/4x2.5" board of 100% birdseye, and one next to it striped grading into fiddleback? I'm standing on 2 of them.
Gorgeous rifles. So much better than some recent treads filled with confrontation for no reason. These beautiful guns bring the emotion of love to the heart, the admiration of pure beauty to the eye. Thank you guys, I will dream in maple vision tonight Again
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Armored farmer
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What a beautiful rifle!
Riomouse911
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I don’t think I’ve seen that, what will that do to the color/finish of the wood?
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I love Maple. Haven't broken a Maple shaft pool cue yet. My Predator 314 is a hard Maple shaft. And I've smacked that cue on the break so hard with no splits. My McDermott and Schmelke are maple as well.
Very confident in good old Maple. Get a decent grain and be set.
Very confident in good old Maple. Get a decent grain and be set.
1976B.L.Johns.
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Who likes maple?
Here is an example. Can you figure out what it may attach to? Bet you can!
Hand crafted about thirty years ago. Dark oak stained with a polyurethane finish.
Gordon
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My rifle was an attempt to woo Roy Weather by before he went the Sauer Mark V way he did. It is blond on one side and the striking inverse on the opposite side. The design of the stock was to control the recoil and cut down the cracking problems the early Weather by " California" design stocks had with FN Mauser actions in larger calibers.
Armored farmer
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I like it enough to have a custom flintlock built on maple.
I really like maple, especially with a stainless steel gun finished white. I like the look of a blued gun with walnut, but for use, I'd rather have stainless and maple. I'm partial to Mauser style actions though, and it seems most of the stainless guns are made with a 700 type action. I like the Winchester and CZ's, but they're blued. What Mauser styles in stainless would go with a natural maple stock? Ruger is the one that comes to mind first. I'd probably rather have a MRC. Maybe I should just get barrel and receiver separates and a classic maple stock like Boyds.
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Skylerbone
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If you do it right the wood turns light brown to reddish brown while the curl turns black. Pretty much only see it on the really nice flintlock longrifles. You work with some really nasty chemicals and there are a number of steps. It takes a lot of hours. It was popular a couple hundred years ago but I don't think many people know how to do it anymore.
Shanghai McCoy
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I, and some others, have had good luck using the Fieblings leather dyes on our muzzleloader stocks. Not so harsh and it can make the figure of the wood really stand out.
Bbear
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Definitely like the maple.
CraigC
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The question is, can you get that original Browning/Winchester finish off?
nhcruffler
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That is soo beautiful ! I would be afraid of dinging it up in the field.
BigBlue 94
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Beautiful blondes!
I've got a rem 700 in 223 that's in a blonde stock of some sort with rosewood tip and grip cap. Gold inlay on the roll stamps
I have this hairbrained idea in my head of carving a stock out of Osage Orange (Hedge, Bodark, Bois d'Arc). Stuff is rock hard though, so itll be a challenge.
I've got a rem 700 in 223 that's in a blonde stock of some sort with rosewood tip and grip cap. Gold inlay on the roll stamps
I have this hairbrained idea in my head of carving a stock out of Osage Orange (Hedge, Bodark, Bois d'Arc). Stuff is rock hard though, so itll be a challenge.
Those preds are sick, they are a spliced/laminate design and tend to be both straighter and stronger than your average one piece cue shaft.
I've broken ferals, and the shafts on a couple heavy Players cues. They aren't particulary great pieces of wood tho.
I've still got a few of my old cues and none have any issues, they weren't kept real carefully either.
I have a great deal of faith in good maple, I also think it makes a really nice contrast with brightly blued steel.
Actually have had more issues with walnut cracking and chipping than any of the maple things (bow limbs, pool cue shafts etc) I use.
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