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Re: What do you think about this stock blank?

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17 August 2004, 06:46
ASS_CLOWN
Re: What do you think about this stock blank?
M1Tanker,



I strongly recommend you take a look at the link I posted. I does a fairly good job of explaining how logs get turned into boards. While there is "quarter sawn" wood in a plain or slab cut board you need to rip the board in two to get.



If you really worked in a cabinet shop as you say, I trust you understand the concepts of "cross-cut" and "rip". Also, about 99% of the wood used in furniture making was slab (plain) cut! Quarter sawn boards there are completely accidental.



Quarter sawing is both very LABOR intensice and WASTEFUL; therefore, very few commercial enterprises still do it.



You WILL NOT get marble cake from a blank which is 100% quarter sawn. It is possible to get some marble cake in a blank which was quarter sawn if the said blank's butt end was in close proximity to limb (big knot). In this case the forearm would be quarter sawn while the butt end would be, for all practical purposes, slab (plain) cut.



Actually, I get the feeling all this typing is a waste of time. I really don't know why you are getting all defensive. The blank you have looks very good. I just would not use it on a heavy express big bore (big bore is by definition 0.458" bore diameter or larger).





Grandview,

I think you understood my point. I agree with what you have posted.



Good day.



ASS_CLOWN
16 August 2004, 12:46
GrandView
Quote:

Orifinally posted by ASS_CLOWN.....


[That is sapwood along the bottom edge and it extends into the bottom of the pistol grip area as it is currently laid out!]

There is an EASY way to end this! Post pictures of the 4 EDGES of the blank! That will solve the "questions" about whether it was 1/4 sawn and whether is was from the OD of the tree IF it was indeed 1/4 sawn.

You have VERY MUCH to learn about sawyering young grasshopper.

Now leave me alone, I was talkin' to Chic.



While I have every confidence that Chic is capable of debating the issue with you (given the time and inclination), I'm not sure the minutia is worth it.

I don't have any doubt the blank in question is quarter-sawn.....and taken from the tree in the fashion of "Beam B" in this diagram.



I'm not sure if your point is the blank was cut slightly "canted" to the plane of bark to center of the tree.....or if the light wood is structurally inferior "sap wood" as opposed to color variation of gradiations of sapwood to heartwood. In this case I wood defer to the guy that personally examined the blank........you're making judgements on Internet pictures.

For my money, it appears to be very much like the blank that I used on this stock.




I don't have a picture of this blank, but it had a streak of light wood that extended up to the very tip of the rounded grip in this stock. Very much like the blank in question.

This has proven to be a very stable stock. I have no idea how large the the tree was it came from, nor how close to the exterior of the tree this blank was cut. The tendency would be for this stock to move toward the "bark" side....and in this case away from the barrel. Which might be problematic for this gun. The full stock isn't secured to the barrel in any fashion.....neither by a muzzle cap nor barrel band. It has remained snug for three seasons in Wisconsin.

Aside from the stock style......which may or may not be another's cup of tea......it's the grain structure that I look for in any blank. And I think the blank in your discussion is an example of the type.

GV
17 August 2004, 06:58
rick0311
William,

Aren't you sooooooooo glad that AC has cleared up all these questions about wood for us...I know I am! And I know you and Chic are relieved to know that the Clown has placed his professional stamp of approval on your stock blank.

Speaking about "accidents"...do you think there are any of those in the Clown's genealogy?

Rick