Show me Your Wood!

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entropy said:
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Never seen a Ljutic with bad wood. This set is by Anton.
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Some nice grain to this Model 12 stock.
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The grain on the Top Turkish Mauser is the best I've ever seen on a milsurp. Beautiful piece of Turkish Walnut.

You have nothing to be ashamed of Armored Farmer. Nice looking wood on those guns. You Model 12 puts mine to shame!
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I have a few others that are worthy of the thread, but im not about to tell mrs farmer that I'm going upstairs to take a few pics of my wood to show my thr friends.......?:eek:
 
Trey Veston said:
My .35 Whelen has a unique stock on it. Made by Mel Smart in Montana, it is an early version of what he called an Accu-Bond stock, in which he tried to combine the beauty of a classic wood stock with the benefits of a laminate. No idea what it's worth, but his company now charges about $17k for a similar rifle.

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WOW! 17 Grand!! Just a bit out of my price range.
 
Grizzly2 said:
Years ago I bought a Stevens 24 with 22lr over 20 gouge that came with really pretty wood just about like yours. I probably never would have parted with it if the two barrels had been regulated better.

My old 870 slug gun wears some nice wood. I wanted something with a higher comb when I scoped it. We were headed for Niagara Falls when we all realized we were coming up on Ilion. I asked if they had anything like that used and they said they couldn't do that since it would undercut their dealers and he suggested something new. I said ok and then another guy said, how about that pile behind the door. My ears got all attentive and he came out with beautiful matching wood they probably took off of a competition trap gun. Then he said how about $35? Never have taken any pictures yet.
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Great story there!
 
troy fairweather said:
I do firewood part time, I've about cried with some of the wood I've split.
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You would be catatonic if you took a tour of the Kimber factory in Yonkers. The wood stocks used to be CNC machined in Yonkers then shipped to Costa Rica to have any curved surface checkering done by hand, then sanded and oiled and shipped back to Yonkers. Any stock that didn't have wrap around checkering on the forend would then have the checkering added by machine. They had various women running the machine that didn't know what they were doing half the time and there was a bin that always seemed to have 30 plus stocks in it that had been screwed up by the operator. You wouldn't believe the wood in that bin ... and it was typically taken home and burned in someone's fireplace.
 
Somebody somewhere will open up a most likely plain order Stoeger Uberti 1866 rifle with astonishment. I had a custom rifle on order with AAA wood and after reopening or some confusion during Covid someone reassembled my wood on another rifle. They tried tracking it down with no luck. So after some wait Uberti finally got replacement AAA wood for mine.
 
Cowhide Cliff said:
Somebody somewhere will open up a most likely plain order Stoeger Uberti 1866 rifle with astonishment. I had a custom rifle on order with AAA wood and after reopening or some confusion during Covid someone reassembled my wood on another rifle. They tried tracking it down with no luck. So after some wait Uberti finally got replacement AAA wood for mine.
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It wasn't me, darn it.
 
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