Looking for a source for maple stock blanks.

i have one if you are interested, i can e-mail you with pictures.

please do so.

Tiger Hunt - he has outstanding maple for great prices.

Howard

Will Chic actually work on maple stocks?

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Originally posted by Idared:
Howard

Will Chic actually work on maple stocks?

Corrected for accuracy. Does Chic actually work on stocks?

I have spent the morning working on your 7X57. NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!! (in my best NY accent). You did want a thumbhole didn't you? With an angled forend tip and a white line spacer. Better say yes, you are getting them.

I hope you mean my 280 or maybe your tired old mind is wandering and confusing your customers. Surely working on one project at a time you are not confusing them.

No it is now a 7X57. I know how much you like them so I rechambered it. That is not the right term though. Jeffe taught me this method and I won't give away all the real secrets to it but you basically fill the chamber with JB weld, put mold release on a 7X57 round, inert it in the chamber and fire it. Firing will remove any of the JB weld forward of the 7X57 round and leave a clean bore all the way to the existing rifling. Then when it sets up, you just remove the fired round. I know how you like high scope mounts so I found those at a metal scrap yard. Cost me $42 at 20 cents a pound.

I used the dipnwhirl method of finishing it. You fill your bathtub or the one you wash the dog in with finish and dip the stock and whirl it on a strang (that is what it sounded like when this guy told me how to do it) and whirl it over your head for 5 or 10 minutes. I "gave it a whirl" for 10 minutes got tired and had to scrape off some of the grass that got stuck to the almost dry finish. Will sandblast that part and rewhirl it a few more times

And Larry, I told him he would have to hold a gun to my head for me to work on a maple stock. He reminded me he owned a few. So the customer is always right, even if he has his head up his ass.

You've come a long way Chic. That's definitely some of your better work.

Must be light weight maple seeing how it defies gravity.

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Originally posted by dempsey:
Must be light weight maple seeing how it defies gravity.

lets try this....



Nice paint job on that wall BTW.

NNNiiiicccceeee.... lol.

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Originally posted by Customstox:
And Larry, I told him he would have to hold a gun to my head for me to work on a maple stock. He reminded me he owned a few. So the customer is always right, even if he has his head up his ass.

You own a plastic stock rifle and a Savage!

Howard, you have to go let the cat out of the bag, just when I might have had Forrest looking elsewhere than Duane, lol.

Actually, I have to confess, I can not take credit for that "beauty". I found it on gunbroker.

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I can not take credit for that "beauty". I found it on gunbroker

I wondered who had bought my rifle.

Not all maple stocks are created equal

ramrod, correction. I found the photo on gunbroker. I damn sure didnt buy it.

VD, you did well but i am an equal opportunity Maple hater.

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I damn sure didnt buy it.

and it damn sure wasn't mine.