These are the 99% finished pics of my 375 H&H.

Will get it in my hands in a week or so.....

I like it. I would also like to see what stainless would look like with a pale piece of wood. Maple, pale english, Maybe even myrtle but myrtle might be too yellow.

I like the contrast between the SS and the walnut. Do you plan to have some engraving? Properly done engraving, with dark filling in the engraving, will set this rifle apart from the rest. Nicely done either way Boss Hoss.

I've always really liked the contrast between SS & wood...yours in no exception.

If it were min thoug, I'd see if they could get a little sheen outta the shine.

That is a nice rifle.Is this from the blank Chuck Grace worked on? It doesn't look like it.

Pretty sure its from Luxus

BH

very very nice indeed.

are you going to hunt that rifle?

Know what?...it's pretty darn nice!

I like that very much as well. Both for looks and functionally. I consider this a very practical combination. I dont think a little water or moisture will effect a properly finished and sealed stock but it can cause blue steel to rust up pretty quick sometimes. They should build more factory guns like this.

I also like the bright metal dark wood contrast. Perfect, I would not change a thing.

I like it and I do have a couple stainless wood rifles.
I agree with the other poster that a fine bead blast will tone down the metal and be a little more pleasing but thats just M.H.O..

Nothing wrong with that!

Another one.

This one was built on a SS Stiller Predator action and I decided to leave the action and Krieger barrel with no finish other than bead blasting (probably just being cheap here...). Stock from a piece of Black Walnut by Serengeti (now Kilimanjaro). This is primarily intended as a range/competition rifle, so I left out checkering which does not really add anything if the rifle is not wet. Caliber is .308 Win.





- mike

i saved a particularly accurate little 223 stainless ruger fro a boat paddle stock and put it into a nice piece of fairly dark american walnut a few years ago. the wood added so much to the character of the rifle that i ended up keeping it, but i still much prefer blued steel

Boss

WOW great wood.


Hal

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Thoughts On Stainless and Walnut Together

Hoss

Your rifle is beautiful, and part of reason this combo works is because your stock is very dark.

Winchester tried stainless on walnut about 15 years ago with much less satisfactory results as their rifles(at least the ones I saw) had either light brown wood or wood with a red tint.

First Thank You for the comments!

dwwheels----funny you should say that as I am having another restocked (a Speedy built 6.5x284 sporter) in Trinidad by one of the advanced 3 year program students that is a little lighter than this one. Cannot wait to get it back as well.

Dall85----this was discussed at length and the final call was to wait. It is going to be a shooter and taken in the field hopefully to Australia in the future but I am still on the fence

cmfic---This was discussed and to bead blast it will not be an issue I can do that at anytime but just want to hold it in my hand to see how it contrasts---I kind of like it myself but the test is when it is in my hands out in the sunlight

shootaway----Yes that is a Luxus build starting from a factory rifle and to say I am satisified with the way it turned out is an understatement. The Luxus folks are a great bunch to deal with—everyone there is a gun and wood lover to put it loosely!

22WRF---Damn straight I will!!

Duane---coming from you that means a lot

fourbore---thanks and I agree that there is a market for good wood on a SS rifle. The blanks I use are all picked by hand obviously but are all very hard, dense and heavy for a reason.

mho---nice looking rifle----how does it shoot?


Again thank you all for the comments and I will post the pics of the next SS stocking job when I get them. It may be just me but being a wood fanatic the SS just seems to bring it to life more and by that I mean the details come out at you. The propriety finish that Luxus uses goes a long way to bring out everything in the blank IMHO . The next one is the rifle Chuck Grace is finishing up and it will be just plain sick if I do say so myself.

I never thought SS & walnut went that well together, probably based on some of the M70s awhile back, but this looks really good. I agree that some highlighted engraving would really set it off. Gotta love Ruger #1s.

Not for me. Prefer a traditional finish on a traditional gun. If you like stainless get something with a synthetic stock, and the gun will make some sense.

I dont post here much, but i want to clear up some things floating around. One, we are finishing up the Ruger stocks now and our purpose for making them was to prove out the CNC machines we designed and built to make our own stocks for the Luxus gun we are making in house. It helped us learn a lot about the stock making process.

When the Luxus Arms gun is ready to release we will post it on AR and we hope to do so in the near future. Thank you to all of our customers . We appreciate you. For anyone wanting more information about our gun please email us and we will include you on our press release.

Thankyou.

Regards,
LUX

Boss Hoss

Absolutely gorgeous! I love wood/Stainless and have a few!

Nowhere near as nice as what's been shown, but here's a stainless Marlin .22 with a claro walnut stock.



Same receiver, heavy barrel, laminated black walnut stock.



I've seen some Cooper and Kimber varmint rifles with blued actions and scopes and stock hardware with stainless barrels and think they look pretty sharp.

Here are some photos of my stainless custom. I am very happy with how it turned out but if I was doing it again I would go blued.

M1....could you PLEEESE stop posting that gun of yours. Every time I see it, I get new ideas that I shouldnt afford right now

That is one of my all time faves that I've seen on AR

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Originally posted by M1Tanker:
Here are some photos of my stainless custom. I am very happy with how it turned out but if I was doing it again I would go blued.

I have always thought that rifle looks great. Have you ever put a matte black scope and rings just to see how it would look?

Bill, I wouldn't have second thoughts about SS on your rifle, I think it looks great. Who did the stock?

Thanks for the compliments on the rifle. I really do like having such a unique custom stainless rifle but the next one will be blued. Metal was done by James Anderson and the stock by Dean Zollinger.

I did try a matte black Leupold when I first received the rifle from the builder. But I figured I already had all the stainless I might as well stay with the look.

M1, yours is exactly what I had in mind when I posted that I would like to see one with pale english walnut. For my taste, I wouln't change a thing. DW

M1 Tanker, you have a PM.

That's a good looking hunting rifle. It's not a traditional look, but I like it non-the-less.

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Originally posted by Trez Hensley:
That's a good looking hunting rifle. It's not a traditional look, but I like it non-the-less.

Do you want to do one (some of the Guild guys are funny about SS or alum)? Let me know what bolt action to get (I like the Kodiak and others)and the wood will be to your liking or I will not have Clay send it to you.....

From the first time I saw stainless and wood I've loved it. Yours is a very fine example of why I love the looks.

Ken....