What is the prettiest piece of wood made into a stock you have?

This is my favorite. Not top grade, built from a $250 blank. Yet, there's something special about it.

Not the flashiest but here's a new, replacement stock for the New Haven built left handed Model 70 Classic Safari Express.

This doesn't qualify as a custom stock, since this is the stock it came in when I bought it from Cal Pappas, a much abused Westley Richards 8X57JS with a shot out bore, built on an Oberndorf commercial action, but this is what it looks like now, after being rebored and rechambered to 9X57 and refinished by Lon Paul.



This is the "Before" condition:



And this is my .350 Rigby Magnum, also in an original Rigby stock, also refinished by Lon Paul:



And this is the "Before" condition:

Custom built on a Mauser action by Joe Balickie in 270.





Dakota Model 10 in 257 Roberts.





John Mercer custom Mauser in 7mm Rem Mag.



Clayton Nelson 7x57.





I know they aren’t rifles, but here is mine and my dads pair of Bowen Classic Arms Kodiaks with exhibition french walnut grips by Rob Rowen.

Beautiful firearms in this thread. I'd love to re-do a few of my guns.

Justin

I like it!

Argy 7x57. Bobby Debaney did the work.

That's an amazing transformation on xausa's 350 Rigby!

Roger

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Originally posted by yumastepside:
That's an amazing transformation on xausa's 350 Rigby!

Roger

Yeah, That is the one that I was commenting on and I like Richj s also.

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Originally posted by Jmbrown:
Custom built on a Mauser action by Joe Balickie in 270.





Dakota Model 10 in 257 Roberts.





John Mercer custom Mauser in 7mm Rem Mag.



Clayton Nelson 7x57.





I know they aren’t rifles, but here is mine and my dads pair of Bowen Classic Arms Kodiaks with exhibition french walnut grips by Rob Rowen.

Mr Brown, real fine weapons!

Thanks Butch!

my great wood only my wife really appreciates

Some beautiful pieces!

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Originally posted by butchloc:
my great wood only my wife really appreciates

What kind of cutting board is it?

This is the prettiest I have had and stocked my 1916 Erfurt SR in 6.5x57 with it. Added some buffalo horn for grip and tip to the blind magazine stock with cut down BM to make the TG

A Winslow-Sako in 17-222, from the late 1960's.

Kevin

My "resurrected" Model 1892 .25-20 by Robert Schuck.



A Browning copy of a Winchester 53 in .32-20




Since JmBrown broke trump on handguns, my Bowen Nimrod in .45 Colt with French walnut stocks by Roy Fishpaw





Mark

Good stuff Mark! I love that Nimrod.

Damn, there are some sweet firearms on this thread.

7mm RM on a Weatherby Vanguard action


Jeremy

I could see a bidding war for that!
Dang nice holster too!

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Originally posted by Jmbrown:
Good stuff Mark! I love that Nimrod.

I was always partial to these.
IMG_2841sharp by JAMES ANDERSON, on Flickr

fullmirror by JAMES ANDERSON, on Flickr

Beautiful James.

This one might become king of the hill in my little shop when the little single shot project is finished.

Geo45 by JAMES ANDERSON, on Flickr

A couple of mine.
45-70

Mini Mauser in 220 Russian.

Mod 17 Enfield in 416 Rigby

VZ24 in 458 Lott

Some of my single shots stocked by Hal Hartley back in the '50's and '60's.

The calibers are:
.25 AI Krag
.219 AI Zipper
.218 Bee
.30-40 Krag
.250-3000R
6mm/.225 Winchester
7X57R

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Originally posted by xausa:
Some of my single shots stocked by Hal Hartley back in the '50's and '60's.

That looks like a Remington Custom Shop Scope on the second one down.

129 years old.

Another.

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Originally posted by boom stick:
What is the prettiest piece of wood made into a stock you have?

Not much but it is my first stock/forearm I ever did


And the blanks were only $100.00

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Originally posted by butchlambert:
That looks like a Remington Custom Shop Scope on the second one down.

Actually it's a Unertl Vulture with external adjustments.

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Originally posted by xausa:

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Originally posted by butchlambert:
That looks like a Remington Custom Shop Scope on the second one down.

Actually it's a Unertl Vulture with external adjustments.

I had 3 Remington Custom Shop scopes "70s era" that were made to mount on top of the 40X receivers and were return to battery with external adjustment.

i sure like your rifles!

Ray Fryar is that a DeHass homemade action on your rifle?

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Originally posted by yumastepside:
That's an amazing transformation on xausa's 350 Rigby!

Roger

+1, stunning.

Here’s a Remington Custom Shop Model 31 skeet gun built in 1949.

Jmbrown, I have a virtual copy of that M 31 in 16 gauge. I have always thought it looked factory but was way too nice. Even the wood has the same grain